National Social Science Survey 1990 Election Panel

This survey is a panel of respondents from the National Social Science Survey 1989 survey. Respondents from that sample were recontacted after the March 1990 federal election and asked for their views on the election and related issues. Variables include a range of social background measures, asked at the time of the 1989 survey; the respondent's federal electoral division and postcode; attitudes on a variety of political issues such as government's role in the economy, privatisation, trade unions, the environment, the monarchy; feeling thermometer ratings of Australian politicians, political parties and other groups; ratings of the importance of, and preferred party on a wide range of election issues; party identification and voting behaviour; plus variables from the second international module on the role of government.