2019 European Election Studies (EES) Stacked Data Matrix

The stacked data matrix (henceforward, SDM) of the 2019 European Election Studies (hereinafter, EES), is a long format data matrix based on the 2019 EES voter study dataset. In this SDM each row represents the (dyadic) relationship between a voter and each relevant party of her party system at 2019 EP elections. The creation of this SDM is part of the research activities of the ProConEU project, an academic research effort analysing the enlarging gaps between proponents and opponents of the European Union (EU) in terms of party politics, citizen politics, and social media communication. The data pipeline and workflow were completed between July 2021 and January 2022 making use of R ≥ 4.1 and are deposited in a online public repository available at https://github.com/giucarny/EESstacked.<br>Most important issue or problem in the country (open); most suitable party to solve this problem (country-specific); satisfaction with democracy; satisfaction with democracy in the EU; satisfaction with government performance; turnout in European Parliament elections; voting behaviour (party preference) in European Parliament elections (country-specific); personal attention to the European election campaign in public media and social media; Voting behaviour in the last federal election (country-specific); likelihood of ever voting for certain parties (country-specific); left-right self-placement; left-right placement of various parties (country-specific); political attitude towards various issues (state regulation and control of the market, redistribution of wealth, same-sex marriage, restriction of the right to privacy, restrictive immigration policy, environmental protection); opinion on the country´s membership in the European Union (preference for continued membership in the EU versus the country leaving the EU); importance of living in a democratically governed country; opinion on the following statements: Independent judges should be able to overrule the decisions of the democratically elected government if the decisions violate the rights of individuals or groups in society, Governments should be allowed to prohibit a peaceful protest if many citizens will be offended by its slogans, In order to secure the independence of the public media, elected politicians should have no influence on the content of their broadcasting, Having a strong leader in government is good for (the country), even if the leader bends the rules to get things done, The people, and not politicians, should make our most important policy decisions; trust in the national Parliament (country-specific); trust in the European Parliament; development of the general economic situation in the country compared to 12 months ago; expected development of the general economic situation in the country in the next 12 months; interest in politics; assessment of the country´s membership in the European Union as a good thing; personal opinion rating of different parties (country-specific) on European unification (has already gone too far vs. should be pushed further; party affinity; party loyalty or just sympathiser; allocation of supporting European group of candidates Manfred Weber, Frans Timmermans and Jan Zahradil for the post of President of the European Commission (candidate recognition battery); consequences of Brexit for the UK; expected consequences of Brexit for own country; general view on Brexit (UK should remain EU member, is right to leave the European Union, should never have joined the European Union); expected consequences for one´s own country after leaving the EU (experiment); country´s main goals for the next ten years (high level of economic growth, strong defence forces, more say for people in shaping their jobs and in their communities, beautifying cities and landscapes); liberal democratic attitudes (maintaining order in the nation, giving people more say in important government decisions, fighting rising prices, protecting free speech, stable economy, progress towards a less impersonal and more humane society, progress towards a society where ideas matter more than money, fighting crime); approval of statements on various social issues: Homosexuals and feminists should be commended for being brave enough to oppose traditional family values; what our country really needs instead of more civil rights is a hefty dose of law and order; our country will be destroyed one day if we don´t smash the perversions that eat away at our morals and traditional beliefs; it´s wonderful that young people today have more freedom to protest against things they don´t like and make their own ´rules´ for their behaviour; people should pay less attention to the Bible and other old traditional forms of religious guidance and instead develop their own standards of what is moral and immoral; the only way for our country to survive the coming crisis is to return to our values, put strong leaders in power and silence troublemakers who spread bad ideas.

Demography: sex; age (year of birth); age at end of full-time education and education level; religious denomination; union membership; country of birth; year of moving to the country; family situation; employment status; industry; self-assessed social class; urban or rural area of residence; frequency of attendance at religious events; household standard of living.

Identification variables: party; stack; country name (complete name and two-digit code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2).

Recoded variables: Union membership; sex and age of respondent; marital status; employment status; student; unemployed; self-assessed social class; urban or rural residential area; religious denomination; frequency of religious service attendance; education; party affiliation; strength of party affiliation; voting behavior in the last national election.

Generic variables (categorical, proximity, and synthetic variables).

Additionally coded were: respondent ID; serial number; region (country-specific); weighting factors; interview language (only in Belgium, Estonia, Finland and Lithuania); start of interview (time); end of interview (time and date); time spent on question 7 on voting behaviour in the European Parliament elections; time spent on question 27 (candidate recognition battery); operating system; mobile device (categories).