Aineiston nimi

European Parliamentary Elections in All Member States 1979-2004

Aineistonumero

FSD2004

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2004

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Helin, Juha (University of Turku. Department of Political Science)
• Suojanen, Maria (University of Turku. Department of Political Science)

Sisällön kuvaus

The data includes country-specific information on elections in the Member States of the European union, for example, years of European Parliamentary elections, number of elections and constituencies, electoral system, information on voting threshold and compulsory voting, voter turnout, total number of voters for each election, number of representatives, vote and seat share of parties, and European Parliamentary group membership of representatives.

Asiasanat

European Parliament; European Parliament elections; European Union; elections; political parties; voting

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• International politics and organisations (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Political behaviour and attitudes (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Elections (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (A) openly available for all users without registration (CC BY 4.0).

Kerääjät

• Helin, Juha (University of Turku. Department of Political Science)
• Suojanen, Maria (University of Turku. Department of Political Science)

Ajallinen kattavuus

1979 – 2004

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2001-08 – 2004-08-13

Maa

Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia

Kohdealue

Member States of the European Union, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Political-administrative area (Country)

Perusjoukko/otos

European Parliamentary Elections in All Member States from 1979 to 2004

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Time series

Lähdeaineistot

Information on elections during 1979-1994: European Union's information office, Luxembourg. Information on the elections of the years 1999 and 2004: (Year 1999 http://www3.europarl.eu.int/election/results/fi/maps_fi.htm and year 2004 http://www.elections2004.eu.int/ep-election/sites/fi/results1306/index.html). Other sources: compilations of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/europa_e.htm), election reports of the Electoral Studies journal and Julie Smith's book Europe's Elected Parliament (1999), Sheffield Academic Press. - (Contemporary European studies; 5).

Otantamenetelmä

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Keruumenetelmä

Compilation/Synthesis

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Data collection guidelines: Secondary data collection guide

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineistopaketti voi sisältää samoja tiedostoja eri kielisinä.

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Havaintojen ja muuttujien lukumäärä

688 muuttujaa ja 25 havaintoa.

Datan versio

1.0

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

The variables of the data have been named in the following way: pxyyp is the vote share (%) of x:th party in the elections of the year yy; pxyys is the number of seats obtained by x:th party in the elections of the year yy; pxyyop is the seat share (%) of x:th party in the elections of the year yy; pnxyy is the name of x:th party; gnxyya is the name of the European Parliamentary group to which members of x:th party belonged after the elections of yy; gnrxyya is the number of representatives of x:th party belonging to the above-mentioned group. If party representatives have divided into several parliamentary groups, than gnxyyb is the name of the (second) group to which members of x:th party belonged to after the elections of yy; gnrxyyb is the number of representatives of x:th party belonging to the above-mentioned group. If party representatives have divided into a third parliamentary group, then gnxyyc is the name of the (third) group to which members of x:th party belonged to after the elections of yy; gnrxyyc is the number of representatives of x:th party belonging to the above-mentioned group.

Painokertoimet

There are no weight variables in the data.

Viittausvaatimus

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Malliviittaus

Helin, Juha (University of Turku) & Suojanen, Maria (University of Turku): European Parliamentary Elections in All Member States 1979-2004 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2004-09-03). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2004

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

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Varaumat

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