Australian Election Campaign Television News Coverage 2007 Ch 9 Brisbane 6 pm weighted days.

The 2007 election campaign TV news coverage files extend previous sets of TV news coverage data gathered by David Denemark (1998) and by David Denemark, Clive Bean ((Queensland Univ of Technology) and Ian Ward (Univ of Queensland), 2001). The aim of the project was to explore television news coverage of Australian election campaigns and measured the amount of television coverage of political parties, leaders and election issues. National bulletins were collected and local news in Brisbane and Perth during the 2007 federal election campaign. This study was also conducted in 1998 and 2001. This study measures coverage of 12 election issues and 10 other issues as defined in the Australian Election Study, 2007 (ADA No. 1120). This file refers to the Channel 9 Brisbane News coverage at 6 pm. Variables include time in seconds given to political parties and political leaders. Also measured was time given to election issues including: education, environment, health, industrial relations and taxation. Prominence of the news bulletin in the news (x10 for lead story; 9 for second story in the bulletin; 8 for third story…1 for 10th or lower story) was used to generate "weighted seconds." The combined weighted seconds on any given leader/party/issue for a given day in the campaign generated "weighted days" measures. All news sessions for during the campaign for the targeted channels were captured. There were NO missing bulletins.

本数据集为2007年大选竞选电视新闻报道数据集，其扩展了David Denemark（1998年）以及David Denemark、克莱夫·比恩（Clive Bean，昆士兰科技大学）与伊恩·沃德（Ian Ward，昆士兰大学）2001年采集的多组电视新闻报道数据集。本项目旨在探究澳大利亚大选竞选活动的电视新闻报道情况，量化各政党、政治领袖及竞选议题的电视报道时长。本次数据采集覆盖2007年联邦大选竞选期间的全国新闻联播，以及布里斯班与珀斯的地方新闻。该项研究曾分别于1998年、2001年开展。本数据集依据2007年澳大利亚选举研究（ADA No. 1120）中的定义，对12项竞选议题与10项其他议题的报道情况进行量化统计。本文件对应九号台（Channel 9）布里斯班频道每日18:00的新闻报道内容。数据集变量包含各政党、政治领袖的报道时长（单位：秒），同时统计了教育、环境、医疗、劳资关系与税收等竞选议题的报道时长。研究根据新闻在当日报道中的排位赋予权重：头条新闻权重为10，第二条为9，第三条为8……第十条及以后为1，以此计算“加权秒数”。将竞选周期内单日针对某一政治领袖、政党或议题的加权秒数求和，即可得到“加权天数”统计量。本次采集覆盖目标频道在竞选周期内的全部新闻时段，无任何新闻联播缺失情况。