Information

elite survey // candidates (mainly Europe, 2005–2018)

https://doi.org/10.23662/FORS-DS-886-2

all dataset (all) — datasets linked through Party Facts

first imported on 5 May 2019 and last updated on 12 March 2021

Reference

CCS 2016. Comparative Candidates Survey Module I - 2005-2013 [Dataset - cumulative file]. Distributed by FORS, Lausanne, 2016.

CCS 2018. Comparative Candidates Survey Wave II - 2013-2018 [Dataset - cumulative file]. Distributed by FORS, Lausanne, 2018. doi: 10.23662/FORS-DS-886-2

Import "readme.txt"

Comparative Candidates Survey (CCS)

Source

• CCS 2016. Comparative Candidates Survey Module I – 2005-2013 [Dataset – cumulative file]. Distributed by FORS, Lausanne, 2016.
• CCS 2018. Comparative Candidates Survey Wave II – 2013-2018 [Dataset – cumulative file]. Distributed by FORS, Lausanne, 2018. https://doi.org/10.23662/FORS-DS-886-2

Import

• imported only first party_id of a party across waves and years
• extracted information from codebook (no script provided)
• party information are extracted from the codebooks question "A1.For which party did you stand as a candidate?"
• party_id consist of wave_number-T1-A1-T3
• wave_number -- no variable in the dataset
• "dataset_620" is wave 1
• "dataset_886" is wave 2
• T1 "Country ID" / "Study ID"
• A1 "For which party did you stand as a candidate?" / "Party stood for in this election"
• T3 "Year of election"

Linking

• For linking the CCS data, please use ccs-partyfacts.csv in our GitHub Repository. There are all party_id for all waves and years with a partyfacts_id. Imported were only the first occured party_id of a party.

Note

• ccs-partyfacts.R provided to add party short name to ccs-partyfacts.csv for double checking