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ESS prtv* · Github

Name Parties Progress Actions
🇦🇱 Albania 8
🇦🇹 Austria 13
🇧🇪 Belgium 28
🇧🇬 Bulgaria 40
🇭🇷 Croatia 26
🇨🇾 Cyprus 19
🇨🇿 Czech Republic 22
🇩🇰 Denmark 13
🇪🇪 Estonia 24
🇫🇮 Finland 30
🇫🇷 France 36
🇩🇪 Germany 30
🇬🇷 Greece 25
🇭🇺 Hungary 30
🇮🇸 Iceland 19
🇮🇪 Ireland 18
🇮🇱 Israel 42
🇮🇹 Italy 43
🇽🇰 Kosovo 13
🇱🇻 Latvia 22
🇱🇹 Lithuania 119
🇱🇺 Luxembourg 7
🇲🇪 Montenegro 20
🇳🇱 Netherlands 23
🇲🇰 North Macedonia 12
🇳🇴 Norway 12
🇵🇱 Poland 33
🇵🇹 Portugal 31
🇷🇴 Romania 15
🇷🇺 Russia 20
🇷🇸 Serbia 53
🇸🇰 Slovakia 17
🇸🇮 Slovenia 23
🇪🇸 Spain 43
🇸🇪 Sweden 12
🇨🇭 Switzerland 27
🇹🇷 Turkey 20
🇺🇦 Ukraine 41
🇬🇧 United Kingdom 21

Information

public opinion survey (Europe, 2002–2022)

European Social Survey (ESS) Rounds 1-11 — prtv* variables — "Party voted for in last national election, [...]"

see also ess-election-dates by Cohen (2020)

https://ess.sikt.no/en/

main dataset (main) — popular datasets linked with Party Facts

first imported on 9 June 2020 and last updated on 29 March 2025

Reference

+ ESS Round 1: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS1 - integrated file, edition 6.7 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess1e06_7.
+ ESS Round 2: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2012) ESS2 - integrated file, edition 3.6 (Italy not included) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess2e03_6.
+ ESS Round 2 (Italy): European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2012) ESS2 - Italy country file from main questionnaire [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess2it.
+ ESS Round 3: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2018) ESS3 - integrated file, edition 3.7 (Latvia and Romania not included) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess3e03_7.
+ ESS Round 3 (Latvia): European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2018) ESS3 - Latvia (no design weights) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess3lv.
+ ESS Round 3 (Romania): European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2018) ESS3 - Romania (no design weights) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess3ro.
+ ESS Round 4: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS4 - integrated file, edition 4.6 (Austria and Lithuania not included) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess4e04_6.
+ ESS Round 4 (Austria): European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2018) ESS4 - Austria (Fieldwork period 01.11.10 to 28.02.11) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess4at.
+ ESS Round 4 (Lithuania): European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2018) ESS4 - Lithuania (no design weights) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess4lt.
+ ESS Round 5: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS5 - integrated file, edition 3.5 (Austria not included) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess5e03_5.
+ ESS Round 5 (Austria): European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2017) ESS5 - Austria (fieldwork period 24.05.13 to 10.10.13) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess5ate1_1.
+ ESS Round 6: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS6 - integrated file, edition 2.6 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess6e02_6.
+ ESS Round 7: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS7 - integrated file, edition 2.3 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess7e02_3.
+ ESS Round 8: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS8 - integrated file, edition 2.3 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess8e02_3.
+ ESS Round 9: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS9 - integrated file, edition 3.2 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess9e03_2.
+ ESS Round 10: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS10 - integrated file, edition 3.2 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess10e03_2.
+ ESS Round 10 (SC): European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS10 Self-completion - integrated file, edition 3.1 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess10sce03_1.
+ ESS Round 11: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2024) ESS11 - integrated file, edition 2.0 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess11e02_0.

Import "readme.txt"

European Social Survey (ESS) · Rounds 1-11

Summary

ESS / Party Facts (PF) linking for variables

  • prtv* — "Party voted for in last national election, [...]"
  • prtc* — "Which party feel closer to, [...]"

Link datasets for ESS and PF ids

first_ess_id uniquely identifies an ESS party in PF through harmonization — see "ESS ids" below

Additional party names are based on PF data. For the PF-Web import, name_english is based on first_ess_name to include one ESS party name.

Note — run all scripts in PF-Data with — purrr::map(fs::dir_ls(".", glob = "*R"), callr::rscript)

Article

Bederke, P. and Döring, H. (2023) “Harmonizing and linking party information: The ESS as an example of complex data linking”. Zenodo (preprint). doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10061173

Bederke, P. and Döring, H. (2023) “Linking European Social Survey (ESS) party information”. Zenodo (software). doi: 10.5281/zenodo.8421232

Code repository at github.com/hdigital/ess-linking and website at hdigital.github.io/ess-linking

Credits

  • Paul Bederke
  • Holger Döring
  • Note — previous ESS imports (2014, 2015, 2018) in archive folder

Number of ESS parties in prtv*

Sources

  • ESS Round 1: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS1 - integrated file, edition 6.7 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess1e06_7.
  • ESS Round 2: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2012) ESS2 - integrated file, edition 3.6 (Italy not included) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess2e03_6.
  • ESS Round 2 (Italy): European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2012) ESS2 - Italy country file from main questionnaire [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess2it.
  • ESS Round 3: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2018) ESS3 - integrated file, edition 3.7 (Latvia and Romania not included) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess3e03_7.
  • ESS Round 3 (Latvia): European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2018) ESS3 - Latvia (no design weights) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess3lv.
  • ESS Round 3 (Romania): European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2018) ESS3 - Romania (no design weights) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess3ro.
  • ESS Round 4: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS4 - integrated file, edition 4.6 (Austria and Lithuania not included) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess4e04_6.
  • ESS Round 4 (Austria): European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2018) ESS4 - Austria (Fieldwork period 01.11.10 to 28.02.11) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess4at.
  • ESS Round 4 (Lithuania): European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2018) ESS4 - Lithuania (no design weights) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess4lt.
  • ESS Round 5: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS5 - integrated file, edition 3.5 (Austria not included) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess5e03_5.
  • ESS Round 5 (Austria): European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2017) ESS5 - Austria (fieldwork period 24.05.13 to 10.10.13) [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess5ate1_1.
  • ESS Round 6: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS6 - integrated file, edition 2.6 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess6e02_6.
  • ESS Round 7: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS7 - integrated file, edition 2.3 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess7e02_3.
  • ESS Round 8: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS8 - integrated file, edition 2.3 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess8e02_3.
  • ESS Round 9: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS9 - integrated file, edition 3.2 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess9e03_2.
  • ESS Round 10: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS10 - integrated file, edition 3.2 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess10e03_2.
  • ESS Round 10 (SC): European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2023) ESS10 Self-completion - integrated file, edition 3.1 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess10sce03_1.
  • ESS Round 11: European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2024) ESS11 - integrated file, edition 2.0 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.21338/ess11e02_0.

Import details

ESS rounds may use different party ids between rounds and variables — see "ESS ids" below

We harmonize ESS party ids in 02-ess-harmonize.csv with first_ess_id and country

Steps

  • 01-ess-prt-raw
  • extract party names for all ESS variables starting with prtv* and prtc*
  • define ess_id (country, round, party id, prt*) — see "ESS ids" below
  • based on ESS Stata files in "source__ess" (not in Git repo)
  • 02-ess-harmonize
  • harmonize ESS party ids from Step-1
  • ess_first_id and country are edited manually
  • script replaces all Step-1 variables from "02-ess-harmonize.csv"
  • 03-essprt
  • create link datasets — see "Summary" above

ESS ids

  • ESS party id issues
  • different between ESS rounds
  • different within one ESS round
  • ess_id and first_ess_id
  • consist of cntry-essround-ess_party_id-prt_v/c
    • R tidyverse code — mutate(ess_id = paste(cntry, essround, ess_party_id, substr(variable, 4, 4), sep = "-"))
    • e.g. FR-1-1-v
  • in case of DEU and LTU the voting tier is added as additional identification
    • R tidyverse code — mutate(ess_id = paste(cntry, essround, party_id, substr(variable, 4, 4), str_sub(variable, -3, -1), sep = "-"))
    • e.g. DE-1-1-v-de2
  • first_ess_id
  • used as a unique identifier (harmonized) of a party within ESS ids
  • parties are imported into PF-Web with this first prtv/prtc ESS id
  • see Step-2 above
  • ess_id
  • not unique for some prtv* variables
  • different variables for tier votes in DEU and LTU
  • e.g. prtvade2 and prtvblt3

Code Snippet

R mutate(ess_id = case_when( cntry %in% c("DE", "LT") & str_detect(variable, "prtv") ~ paste( cntry, essround, party_id, substr(variable, 4, 4), str_sub(variable, -3, -1), sep = "-" ), T ~ paste( cntry, essround, party_id, substr(variable, 4, 4), sep = "-" ) ) )

see 01-ess-prt-raw.R