Political change in Britain, 1963-1970
By: principal investigators, David Butler and Donald E. Stokes
Series: ICPSR -- 7250; ICPSR (Series) -- 7250
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Elections; Public opinion; Voting; Political parties; Politics and government
Description: The study was designed to investigate political change in Great Britain using a panel technique. The main areas of investigation were the party system, campaign issues, and social class. Information on the political background of the respondent as well as extensive demographic data were also collected. Semantic differential questions were also included. Interviewing was conducted in four waves. The first wave was in 1963, the second wave followed the 1964 General Election, the third wave followed the 1966 General Election, and the fourth wave followed the 1970 General Election. This study contains fourteen overlapping samples. The 1963 wave constitutes a national cross-section sample. For 1964 and 1966 there are electorate samples. The other eleven samples are panels generated by the interviewing of respondents. The data for all fourteen samples are contained in one master file.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class I.

Data collected: 1963, 1964, 1966, 1970.

Great Britain.

This master file consists of 2,922 respondents, 28 cards of data per respondent. There is a maximum of 1,246 variables for each respondent.

Butler, David, and Donald E. Stokes. Political Change in Britain. New York: St. Martin's, 1969.

Stokes, Donald E. ''Ideological Competition of British Parties,'' in E. Dreyer and W. Rosenbaum (eds.), Political Opinion and Behavior, 2nd Ed. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1970.