European Parliament Election Study 2014, Voter Study, First Post-Election Survey

<font color=red>The EES 2014 Post-Election Survey was implemented in a cooperative arrangement between the European Election Studies Association (EES-A) and the European Parliament (EP). The dataset is a combination of two sets of questions: Items marked with ´qp´ in the variable name are financed by and account for the EP; items marked with ´qpp´ in the variable name are financed by and account for the EES-A. </font>

1. Voting: party choice and turnout: participation in the European Parliament elections; party preference; party voted for at the (General Election); if there was a general election tomorrow, which party would be voted for; how probable voting for selected parties; reason for (not)voting; time of vote decision; main reasons to vote and not to vote.

2. Party ID: closeness to any particular party.

3. Engagement and mobilization: watch a program about the election on television, read about the election in a newspaper, talk to friends or family about the election, attend a public meeting or rally about the election, look into a website concerned with the election; contacted by a candidate or party organization during the election campaign; interest in campaign; interest in local, national and EU politics; participated in a demonstration.

4. Media Usage: how often following the news; newspaper read and frequency of reading.

5. Institutions: European Parliament takes into consideration the concerns of European citizens; trust in the EU institutions; trust national parliament; important which candidates win seats and become MEPs in the European Parliament elections; important which political party gained the most seats in the European Parliament elections; the national Parliament takes into consideration the concerns of citizens; politics seems too complicated.

6. EU integration: country’s membership of EU is a good or bad thing; respondent´s attitude to European unification; perception of party regarding EU unification; attitudes towards enlargement of the European Union; confidence that EU decisions will be in the interest of country; country´s support for Member State facing severe economic and financial difficulties; EU authority over members states.

7. Value orientations: self-placement and placement of parties on left-right continuum; state regulation and control of the market; redistribution of wealth; taxes and public spending; same-sex marriage; civil liberties; immigration; environment.

8. Domestic and European issues: most important problems; level problem mainly dealt with; most appropriate level to deal with problem; economy of the country is better compared to 12 months ago; general economic situation in the country over the next 12 months; direction country and the EU.

9. Representation: asessement of government’s records; asessement of EU institutions records; own voice counts in the European Union; own voice counts in the country.
Severity of economic crisis: unemployment of household member; own household experienced a decrease in income.

10. Knowledge-test and experience: Switzerland is a member of EU; every country in EU elects the same number of representatives to the European Parliament; name of Head of government and party of Head of government; number of members of National parliament.

11. European party group or political party which supports the nomination of the three candidates for President of the next European Commission.

12. Attribution of responsibility and evaluation of performance: responsibility of national government, EU, IMF and the banks for the current economic conditions.

13. Demographics: trade union membership; age at completion of full-time education; gender; age; current marital status; current work situation; occupational sector; main occupation; current job; social class; degree of urbanisation; residence (number of years); religious denomination; attendance of religious services; number of people living in household (size of household); household composition; difficulty in paying bills; internet use.

Additionally coded: respondent id; country; region; size of locality; date and length of interview; nationality; language of interview; respondent cooperation; number of persons present during the interview.

Weighting factors: sample weight per country; political weight; political weight actual EP voters only.

2014年欧洲选举后调查（EES 2014 Post-Election Survey）由欧洲选举研究协会（European Election Studies Association, EES-A）与欧洲议会（European Parliament, EP）合作实施。本数据集整合了两类问题：变量名中带有`qp`标识的题目由欧洲议会资助并负责；变量名中带有`qpp`标识的题目由欧洲选举研究协会资助并负责。

1. 投票行为：政党选择与投票率：欧洲议会选举参与情况、政党偏好、大选（General Election）中所投政党、若明日举行大选将投票支持的政党、对特定政党的投票可能性、投票/未投票的原因、投票决策时间、投票与不投票的主要动因。
2. 政党认同：与特定政党的亲近程度。
3. 参与与动员情况：观看选举相关电视节目、阅读报纸上的选举报道、与亲友讨论选举、参加选举相关公开集会或游行、浏览选举相关网站；选举期间收到候选人或政党组织的联系、对竞选活动的兴趣、对地方、国家及欧盟政治的兴趣、参与示威游行。
4. 媒体使用情况：新闻关注频率、报纸阅读类型与阅读频次。
5. 制度认知：欧洲议会是否重视欧洲公民的诉求、对欧盟机构的信任度、对本国议会的信任度、欧洲议会选举中议员席位归属与欧洲议会议员（Member of the European Parliament, MEPs）当选的重要性、欧洲议会选举中第一大政党席位归属的重要性、本国议会是否重视公民诉求、政治议题过于复杂。
6. 欧盟一体化相关议题：本国加入欧盟是好事还是坏事、受访者对欧洲统一的态度、政党对欧盟统一的立场、对欧盟扩大的态度、对欧盟决策符合本国利益的信心、本国对面临严重经济金融困境的成员国的支持态度、欧盟对成员国的权威程度。
7. 价值取向：自身及政党在左右翼光谱上的定位、国家对市场的监管与调控、财富再分配、税收与公共支出、同性婚姻、公民自由、移民问题、环境议题。
8. 国内与欧盟议题：最突出的问题、问题的主要解决层级、最适合解决该问题的层级、本国经济相较12个月前的状况、未来12个月本国整体经济形势、本国及欧盟的发展方向。
9. 代表性感知：对政府履职表现的评估、对欧盟机构履职表现的评估、自身声音在欧盟中的影响力、自身声音在本国中的影响力；经济危机严重程度：家庭成员失业情况、自身家庭收入是否出现下滑。
10. 知识测试与经历：瑞士是否为欧盟成员国、欧盟各国是否按相同名额选举欧洲议会议员、政府首脑姓名及所属政党、本国议会议员人数。
11. 支持提名下届欧盟委员会主席三位候选人的欧洲政党团组或政党。
12. 责任归因与绩效评估：本国政府、欧盟、国际货币基金组织（International Monetary Fund, IMF）及银行对当前经济状况应承担的责任。
13. 人口统计学特征：工会会员身份、完成全日制教育时的年龄、性别、年龄、当前婚姻状况、当前就业情况、职业领域、主要职业、当前工作岗位、社会阶层、城市化程度、居住时长、宗教教派、宗教仪式参与频率、家庭居住人数（家庭规模）、家庭构成、支付账单的困难程度、互联网使用情况。

此外还包含以下编码变量：受访者ID、国家、地区、地区规模、访谈日期与时长、国籍、访谈语言、受访者配合程度、访谈期间在场人数。

权重设置：各国样本权重、政治权重、仅针对欧洲议会实际选民的政治权重。