Content Analysis of Newspaper Coverage, British General Election, 2001

  SN 4623 contains the content analysis of campaign newspaper coverage component of the 2001 BES. The aim of the project was to conduct a high-level content analysis of the press coverage of the 2001 election campaign, resulting in the creation of a campaign dataset that will enable movements in opinion during the campaign to be related to press coverage of the campaign. A simplified version of the 1997 Scammel/Semetko coding schema was devised for this purpose. Articles relating to the election campaign were identified from eight daily newspapers for the election campaign period. Articles were manually coded according to the set coding frame and coding was examined after completion to ensure consistent results. As an addition to the datasets of coded articles, corresponding datasets of article headlines were compiled to facilitate further research.<br>
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