ICPSR - 8079 - The 1974-1979-1980 Canadian National Elections and Quebec Referendum Panel Study

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The 1974-1979-1980 Canadian National Elections and Quebec Referendum Panel Study
(Principal Investigator, Clarke, Harold, Jane Jenson, Lawrence LeDuc, and Jon Pammett. )

Summary

This study is a continuation of the 1974 Canadian Election Study which consisted of extensive personal interviews with a national sample of 2,562 respondents following the federal election of July 8, 1974. Immediately following the federal election of May 22, 1979, 1,295 of the original respondents were successfully contacted and interviewed, thereby creating a 1974-1979 panel study. In addition, a new national sample of the l979 electorate and a supplementary sample of young voters (age 18-23) were drawn and personal interviews utilizing the same questionnaire were conducted with respondents in these samples. After the federal election of February 18, 1980, 1,748 respondents in both the panel and cross-section samples were contacted by telephone and reinterviewed. No new respondents were added to the 1980 sample. When the Quebec referendum was called for May 20, 1980, a decision was made to again contact by telephone Quebec respondents original sampled in l974 or 1979 and interviewed in 1980. 325 of these respondents were successfully contacted and reinterviewed, approximately half of the interviews were conducted immediately prior to the referendum, and the remaining half immediately afterward. The 1974 post election survey covered a wide range of areas involving citizen participation in politics. The 1979 survey continued the theme of citizen interest and involvement in politics and probed into respondents' attitudes about regions, provinces, and national unity. The 1980 telephone interview asked about vote choice in 1980, party identification, and also brought up the issue of energy. The Quebec referendum centered around the respondents' views on constitutional options for Quebec. The study is available in card-image and logical record length format. An OSIRIS dataset can be supplied. Processing of this study to its present form was carried out at the University of Windsor under the supervision of Kai Hildebrandt.

Citation

Clarke, Harold, Jane Jenson, Lawrence LeDuc, and Jon Pammett. THE 1974-1979-1980 CANADIAN NATIONAL ELECTIONS AND QUEBEC REFERENDUM PANEL STUDY [Computer file]. Conducted by Canadian Facts, Ltd. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1982.

Codebook

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Filename (Size in KB)	LRECL Logical RECord Length	Dataset Details
odata.s8079 (5671K)	2053	Refer to the codebook for the documentation on this file
odict.s8079 (100K)	80	Refer to the codebook for the documentation on this file
sa8079 (225K)	79	SAS data definitions for study 8079
sp8079 (188K)	79	SPSS data definitions for study 8079

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