Canadian national election study, 1984
By: principal investigators, Ronald D. Lambert ... [et al.]
Series: ICPSR -- 8544; ICPSR (Series) -- 8544
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 409
Subjects: Elections, 1984; Public opinion; Elections; Politics and government; Canada. Parliament
Description: Topics covered in this survey include the respondent's interest in politics in general and in the 1984 Federal Election in particular, political trust, respondent assessment of the most important issues in the 1984 election, party identification at both the federal and provincial level, exposure to the campaign including the television debates, respondent's vote and reasons for that decision, attitudes towards the parties and their leaders, feeling thermometer ratings of party leaders and various groups, attitudes toward social class, and various other social and political attitudes. Background information such as education, occupation, religion, language, and group memberships was also obtained from respondents. In addition, the interview data were augmented with information about the socio-demographic and political characteristics of the consituency in which each respondent resided.
Notes: Survey data, and aggregate data.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: October 1984-February 1985; Data collected: October 1984-February 1985.

Personal interviews, and (1) Reports of Chief Electoral Officers, (2) Parliamentary guide/handbook, and (3) Statistics Canada. 1981 Census of Canada catalogue 95-941 (volume 3-Profile series B) Federal election districts.

Canada.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 411-83-0006.

Card Image with SPSS Control Cards.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3,377 ; variable count: 649 ; LRECL: 80 ; records per case: 17.

Four-stage stratified sample.

Universe: Population of Canada aged 18 years and over with the following exceptions: the Northwest Territories and Yukon, some inaccessible and sparsely populated areas in each province, inmates of institutions and inhabitants of lumber and mining camps, members of the armed forces not living at home, and persons living on Indian reservations.