Correspondence Study Field Experiment, United Kingdom, 2020

A correspondence study field experiment (CSFE) was conducted in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom from November to December 2020. The pre-analysis plan has been published and is available via Related Resources. This data set contains the anonymised original data from the audit experiment that was conducted in the United Kingdom from 2nd of November 2020 to 18th of December 2020. Manipulated variables include social class, ethnic background and partisanship, which are all manipulated in the treatment emails. Social class is signalled by the sender's occupation, ethnic background is signalled by their name and partisanship is signalled by the sender saying they support the MP's party. Measured variables include district size, district structure, party, and legislators’ personal characteristics, i.e. their ethnic and class backgrounds. The latter are only used for exploratory analyses. This experiment was pre-registered and full details of the experimental design can be found in the pre-registration documentation. Please see Related Resources.