Scottish Election Survey, 1997

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><br>&lt;i&gt;Scottish Election Survey, 1997&lt;/i&gt;<br>
The aims of the 1997 Scottish Election Survey are:<br>
to contribute to the construction of a time-series on electoral change at a time when political divergence is one of the key features of political behaviour within the UK;<br>
to model political behaviour and attitudes in Scotland both with regard to Britain as a whole, the nations and regions of the UK, as well as within Scotland itself;<br>
to understand nationalism in Scotland in the wider European context;<br>
to provide a valuable benchmark for assessing the outcomes of Scottish parliament elections and against which to assess future constitutional change.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>The file contains the data for 882 Scottish respondents from: an hour and ten minutes long face-to-face interview; a self-completion questionnaire (including the CSES international module); geographic information derived from the census; turn-out and electoral registration information derived from a check against the marked-up Electoral Registers.<br>
The Scottish Election Survey file is a subset from the &lt;i&gt;British General Election Study Cross-section Survey&lt;/i&gt; (held at the Data Archive under SN:3887).<br>
Standard Measures: self-completion Q3a,b,e,f,g,Q7a make up a standard BGES left-right scale; self-completion Q3e,d,Q4b-e make up a standard BGES libertarian-authoritarian scale. libertarian-authoritarian scale.