Demography vs. political preference data sources

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I am looking for data on the relationship between demography (mainly indicators of knowledge such as formal education, rural/urban residency, salary) and political preference, preferably in the UK or the EU as a whole.

My aim is to demonstrate the correlation between these two and model potential election outcomes should the suffrage be limited.

Could you please suggest any?

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 02 '14 at 17:53

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Two resources you might consider are:

answered Mar 02 '14 at 17:53

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Could you please detail what each dataset contain? It would be better than a links-only answer, thanks a lot! – Nicolas Raoul Oct 01 '14 at 08:38
If you plan to use European Social Survey as well as happen to use R for this, then you may find the following related information useful: 1. http://www.r-bloggers.com/analyze-the-european-social-survey-ess-with-r 2. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v57/i01/paper – Aleksandr Blekh Apr 02 '14 at 05:21

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 25 '14 at 18:53

Check this collection of static and real-time data sets: http://www.oecd.org/statistics. Most indicators should be on a per-country (including per-EU-country) basis.

Also, see:

http://data.worldbank.org and http://data.worldbank.org/products/wdi (for R there is WDI package)
http://data.un.org/DataMartInfo.aspx
http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 02 '14 at 21:34

The European Values Study provides this information. The microdata is freely available.

You can consider it as a substitute to the European Social Survey mentioned in this same thread. Or as a complement, if you want to check the robustness of your findings.

Demography vs. political preference data sources

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