Canadian Election Study, 2004-2006

<p>As a result of the Canadian Federal Election held on Monday June 28, 2004, the Liberal Party formed a minority government. Telephone surveys, conducted during the campaign and after the election with a random sample of Canadians, provide data that can be used to help explain the election outcome.</p> <p> Within 17 months, Canadians again went to the polls and the result of the January 23, 2006 vote was a second minority government, but under the leadership of the Conservative Party. Efforts were made to interview the respondents to the 2004 survey again for the 2006 survey and about one-half of the 2004 survey respondents also answered the 2006 survey. These re-interviews provide a panel or longitudinal sample component where a respondent’s answers to questions in the first survey can be compared to those of the second survey. Many of the questions asked in 2004 were repeated in the 2006 survey. The remaining respondents to the 2006 survey were a random sample of Canadians.</p>

<p>2004年6月28日（星期一）加拿大联邦选举结束后，自由党组成了少数派政府。在竞选期间及选举结束后，针对加拿大民众随机样本开展的电话调查所提供的数据，可用于助力解释此次选举结果。</p><p>时隔17个月，加拿大民众再次投票，2006年1月23日选举结果为保守党领导的第二届少数派政府。研究人员尝试对2004年调查的受访者进行回访以开展2006年调查，约半数2004年调查受访者也参与了2006年调查。这些回访构成了面板或纵向样本部分，可用于对比受访者在两次调查中的回答。2004年调查中的诸多问题在2006年调查中被重复提出。2006年调查的其余受访者则为加拿大民众的随机样本。</p>