AUTNES Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Post-Election Survey 2013

This dataset contains political preferences of Austrian citizens eligible to vote (age 16 and older) after the national parliamentary election on 29.9.2013. Telephone interviews (CATI) were conducted in the period 1.10. – 29.10.2013. 1000 respondents were selected based on proportionally stratified probability sampling. This survey is part of the international Comparative Study of Electoral Systems.

Important variables are, among others, participation in the election and vote choice; preferences concerning raising/cutting public expenditure in certain policy areas; party closeness; party preferences and party identification; satisfaction with democracy; self- and party-placements on a left-right scale; political participation; perception of campaign ads; and political knowledge. Additional variables capture demographics, weights, and interview ratings.

Topics: Preference for an increase or decrease in public spending on health care, education, unemployment benefits, national defence, pensions, promotion of business and industry, police and social services; likelihood of a higher standard of living in the next ten years; change in the economic situation in the country in the last year; change in the economic situation of the region compared to Austria as a whole; change in own economic situation; agreement with the demand for government measures to reduce income disparities; participation in the National Council election on 29. September 2013 and voting decision; preferential vote cast; voting decision of non-voters; participation in the last National Council election in September 2008 and voting decision; importance of those in government and one´s own vote for policy-making; satisfaction with democracy; party proximity and party identification; intensity of party identification; sympathy scalometer for the parties SPÖ, ÖVP, FPÖ, BZÖ, the Greens, Team Stronach and NEOS and for selected top politicians; ranking of parties on a left-right continuum; self-ranking left-right; contact by a party or candidate during the election campaign; type of contact (personal conversation, by telephone, SMS, post, e-mail or via the internet in social networks) and contacting party; reception of election advertising on television and advertising party; political persuasion in the family, with close friends, colleagues or fellow students and neighbours; mobilisation through personal contact, direct conversation, letter, telephone, SMS, e-mail, social network; online registration for election campaign information; political knowledge: last finance minister, unemployment rate, second strongest party in the National Council, UN Secretary General; expected change in household income in the next year; assessment of selected top politicians with regard to competence, honesty, assertiveness and charisma; Survey Experiment Item Count Technique (Split Half A.): Letter to the editor written, been active in a club, changed primary residence, donated money, Split Half B: Letter to the editor written, been active in a club, voted in the National Council elections in September 2013, changed primary residence, donated money).

Demography: Austrian citizenship; age (year and month of birth); sex; household size; number of persons in the household under 18 years and under 6 years; property: owning a home or condominium, weekend house or holiday home, business, farm, land, rental property, shares and savings; highest level of education; marital status; trade union membership of the respondent or other household members; employment of the respondent and partner or seeking work; current or last occupational situation, occupational position and economic sector of the respondent and partner; assumed difficulties in finding work; net household income; religiousness; religious community; religious confession; other language. current or last occupational situation, occupational position and economic sector of the respondent and partner; assumed difficulties in finding a job; net household income; religious service attendance; religiousness; religious community; religious confession; language other than German in the household; household language; federal state; rural or urban residential area; length of residence in the residential area; country of birth; year of moving to Austria; interview by mobile phone or landline; location of the interview; landline at home; other mobile phone available.

Additionally coded were: Interviewer sex; age (year of birth) and educational level of interviewer; interview date regional constituency, municipality size; weighting factor.

Interviewer rating: assessment of the resondent´s German language skills; telephone number from the telephone book or RDD.