European Parliament Election Study 2009, Candidate Study

Weßels, Bernhard, WZB, Berlin

doi:10.4232/1.11323

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ZA5048: European Parliament Election Study 2009, Candidate Study

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EES Candidate Study (Parallel Title)

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10.4232/1.11323

Weßels, Bernhard - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin
Giebler, Heiko - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin
Wüst, Andreas - Universität Mannheim
Schmitt, Hermann - Universität Mannheim
Kritzinger, Silvia - University of Vienna, Austria
de Winter, Lieven - University of Louvain, Belgium
Cholova, Blagovesta - Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (for Bulgarian data)
Papageorgiou, Bambos - European University Cyprus, Cyprus
Linek, Lukáš - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Klemmensen, Robert - University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Ehin, Piret - University of Tartu, Estonia
Mattila, Mikko - University of Helsinki, Finland
Raunio, Tapio - University of Tampere, Finland
Rozenberg, Olivier - Sciences Po, France
Chadjipandelis, Theodore - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Teperoglou, Eftichia - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Enyedi, Zsolt - Central European University, Hungary
Marsh, Michael - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Sudulich, Maria Laura - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Andretta, Massimiliano - University of Pisa, Italy

Bardi, Luciano - University of Pisa, Italy
Ikstens, Janis - University of Latvia, Latvia
Krupavicius, Algis - Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Dumont, Patrick - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Spreitzer, Astrid - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Fenech, Dominic - University of Malta, Malta
Rosema, Martin - University of Twente, Netherlands
Czesnik, Mikolaj - Polish Academy of Science, Poland
Freire, André - Lisbon University Institute, Portugal
Popescu, Marina - University of Essex, United Kingdom (for Romanian data)

Gyarfasova, Olga - Institute for Public Affairs (IVO), Slovakia
Toplak, Cirila - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Molina, Ignacio - Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Sanz Cazorla, Alberto - Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Haglund, Louise - Göteborg University, Sweden
Holmberg, Sören - Göteborg University, Sweden
Saalfeld, Thomas - University of Kent, United Kingdom

Political Parties, Organizations

International Institutions, Relations, Conditions

Political Attitudes and Behavior

11.2 International politics and organisation

11.5 Mass political behaviour, attitudes / opinion

11.7 Elections

Citation	Weßels, Bernhard, WZB, Berlin (2011): European Parliament Election Study 2009, Candidate Study. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5048 Data file Version 2.0.0, doi:10.4232/1.11323
Study No.	ZA5048
Title	European Parliament Election Study 2009, Candidate Study
Other Titles	EES Candidate Study (Parallel Title) European Election Study 2009 (Parallel Title)
Current Version	2.0.0, 2011-6-1, doi:10.4232/1.11323
Date of Collection	02.06.2009 - 20.02.2010
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution	Weßels, Bernhard - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin Giebler, Heiko - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin Wüst, Andreas - Universität Mannheim Schmitt, Hermann - Universität Mannheim Kritzinger, Silvia - University of Vienna, Austria de Winter, Lieven - University of Louvain, Belgium Cholova, Blagovesta - Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (for Bulgarian data) Papageorgiou, Bambos - European University Cyprus, Cyprus Linek, Lukáš - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic Klemmensen, Robert - University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Ehin, Piret - University of Tartu, Estonia Mattila, Mikko - University of Helsinki, Finland Raunio, Tapio - University of Tampere, Finland Rozenberg, Olivier - Sciences Po, France Chadjipandelis, Theodore - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Teperoglou, Eftichia - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Enyedi, Zsolt - Central European University, Hungary Marsh, Michael - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Sudulich, Maria Laura - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Andretta, Massimiliano - University of Pisa, Italy Bardi, Luciano - University of Pisa, Italy Ikstens, Janis - University of Latvia, Latvia Krupavicius, Algis - Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Dumont, Patrick - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Spreitzer, Astrid - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Fenech, Dominic - University of Malta, Malta Rosema, Martin - University of Twente, Netherlands Czesnik, Mikolaj - Polish Academy of Science, Poland Freire, André - Lisbon University Institute, Portugal Popescu, Marina - University of Essex, United Kingdom (for Romanian data) Gyarfasova, Olga - Institute for Public Affairs (IVO), Slovakia Toplak, Cirila - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Molina, Ignacio - Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Sanz Cazorla, Alberto - Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Haglund, Louise - Göteborg University, Sweden Holmberg, Sören - Göteborg University, Sweden Saalfeld, Thomas - University of Kent, United Kingdom
Categories	Political Parties, Organizations International Institutions, Relations, Conditions Political Attitudes and Behavior
Topics	11.2 International politics and organisation 11.5 Mass political behaviour, attitudes / opinion 11.7 Elections

Abstract

European Election Study 2009: Attitudes towards political issues, value orientations, political background and experience of candidates for the EU-Parliament. Political career. Topics: Party ID: Party membership, year of ascendance, EP party group. Engagement and mobilization: Date of nomination; start of campaign and full-time campaigning; time exposure for campaigning by instrument (candidate and team); policy issues emphasized in campaign; focus of campaign (personal qualifications, local points of view, party’s election program and specific issues); amount of campaign budget; size of campaign team; aim of campaign (personalised vs. party campaign). Media Usage: Usage of campaign instruments; importance of media for election. Institutions: Attitude towards European Institutions; attitudes towards the power of the EP; satisfaction with the democracy in one`s own country and EU. EU integration: European identity (scale); attitude towards country membership in the EU; attitude towards enlargement and towards deepening; candidate’s and party’s position towards European unification; decisions by EU in the interest of respondent`s country. Value orientations: Self-assessment on a left-right continuum; views on political issues. Domestic and European issues: Most important issues; actual level dealing with the most important issues; appropriate level to deal with most important issues; appropriate level to deal with different policy areas. Representation: Importance of the representation of selected groups in the European Parliament (complete population in Europe, national population, the own party voters, population in the region, national party, the own European parliament group, women, elderly people, workers, young ones, disadvantaged people, minorities). Identity: Attitudes towards European identity. Demographics: Sex; age (year of birth); country of origin, present nationality and at the time of birth; country of origin of mother and father; identification with one`s own nationality, another group or both; marital status; highest school-leaving qualification (ISCED); present employment situation as well as immediate before the election with a full time mandate; occupational sector; self-assessment of social class; duration of living at the place of residence; denomination; church attendance; self-assessment of religiousness; assessment of the standard of living in the family of the origin. Recruitment and nomination of candidate: Encouragement to stand; nomination (level); who has nominated the candidate; alternatives for nomination; importance of certain groups supporting the candidate in the nomination process; political experience; membership; career aspiration.

Abstract

Methodology

Geographic Coverage

Universe

Candidates for the 2009 European Parliament Election

Selection Method

Sample selection method: All candidates of a party on a list position which does not exceed 125 percent of the country’s seats in the European Parliament are defined as relevant. If the number of candidates exceeded the threshold, the inclusion of candidates is based on the respective party list position. Avoiding a too strict rule, all parties are included, which receive votes equal to half of the nation‐wide electoral threshold. More than 260 parties have been identified to be relevant parties. In regard to relevant candidates, 6558 candidates for the 2009 European Parliament Election were identified as relevant.

Mode of Data Collection

Mail survey or online survey with standardized questionnaire

Data Collector

Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) iVox, Brussels

Date of Collection

02.06.2009 - 20.02.2010

Geographic Coverage	Austria (AT); Belgium (BE); Bulgaria (BG); Cyprus (CY); Czech Republic (CZ); Germany (DE); Denmark (DK); Estonia (EE); Spain (ES); Finland (FI); France (FR); United Kingdom (GB); Greece (GR); Hungary (HU); Ireland (IE); Italy (IT); Lithuania (LT); Luxembourg (LU); Latvia (LV); Malta (MT); Netherlands (NL); Poland (PL); Portugal (PT); Romania (RO); Sweden (SE); Slovenia (SI); Slovakia (SK)
Universe	Candidates for the 2009 European Parliament Election
Selection Method	Sample selection method: All candidates of a party on a list position which does not exceed 125 percent of the country’s seats in the European Parliament are defined as relevant. If the number of candidates exceeded the threshold, the inclusion of candidates is based on the respective party list position. Avoiding a too strict rule, all parties are included, which receive votes equal to half of the nation‐wide electoral threshold. More than 260 parties have been identified to be relevant parties. In regard to relevant candidates, 6558 candidates for the 2009 European Parliament Election were identified as relevant.
Mode of Data Collection	Mail survey or online survey with standardized questionnaire
Data Collector	Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) iVox, Brussels
Date of Collection	02.06.2009 - 20.02.2010

Dataset

Number of Units: 1576

Number of Variables: 261

Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata

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ZA5048_data_access_full_release.pdf (User Contract) 34 KBytes
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ZA5048_q_at.pdf (Questionnaire) 131 KBytes
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ZA5048_q_be-nl.pdf (Questionnaire) 128 KBytes
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ZA5048_q_mt.pdf (Questionnaire) 128 KBytes
ZA5048_q_nl.pdf (Questionnaire) 132 KBytes
ZA5048_q_pl.pdf (Questionnaire) 157 KBytes
ZA5048_q_pt.pdf (Questionnaire) 127 KBytes
ZA5048_q_ro.pdf (Questionnaire) 166 KBytes
ZA5048_q_se.pdf (Questionnaire) 129 KBytes

ZA5048_q_si.pdf (Questionnaire) 142 KBytes
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2011-6-1 Public release V2 (The release date was set to be identical to the released version at PIREDEU Data Center. The content of the data set is the same as published at PIREDEU Data Center.) doi:10.4232/1.11323

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2010-12-1 Pre-release (The release date was set to be identical to the released version at PIREDEU Data Center. The content of the data set is the same as published at PIREDEU Data Center.) doi:10.4232/1.10201

Links	Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union (PIREDEU)
Additional Information	Remark for Data Access: For ´full release´ user Contract necessary!
Notes	The survey among candidates was conducted in dual mode, i.e. mail questionnaire and web-based survey. The choice of the mode was left to the candidates. The mail survey has been administered centrally by the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), the web-based survey platform was provided by iVox, Brussels. After completing the English master questionnaire, existing translations of questions into languages relevant for the PIREDEU project were collected if possible. It was carefully noted whether there have been changes to the original wording or whether the items were used identically. For a detailed description of the development and translation of the questionnaire see the EECS 2009 Methodological Annex. Basic fieldwork time: 02.06.2009 - 15.11.2009 Second fieldwork period to increase the number of elected candidates: 20.11.2009 - 20.02.2010

Publications	Giebler, Heiko; Haus, Elmar; Weßels, Bernhard: 2009 European Election Candidate Study: Codebook (Advanced Release, V2). Berlin: Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) Giebler, Heiko; Weßels, Bernhard: 2009 European Election Candidate Study: Methodological Annex. Berlin: Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
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Groups

European Election Studies
Beside these international studies there is also group European Election (Germany), in which the surveys are listed that were only done in Germany for the European Parliament elections.
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- ZA1222 The Role of Broadcasting in the First Direct Elections to the European Parliament
- ZA2320 European Election Study 1989 (EES 1989)
- ZA2865 European Election Study 1994 (EES 1994)
- ZA3077 European Candidates Study 1994
- ZA3078 Members of the European Parliament Study 1996
- ZA3079 European Members of Parliament Study 1996
- ZA4566 European Election Study 2004 (2nd edition)
- ZA5048 European Parliament Election Study 2009, Candidate Study
- ZA5055 European Parliament Election Study 2009, Voter Study
- ZA5056 European Parliament Election Study 2009, Media Study
- ZA5057 European Parliament Election Study 2009, Euromanifesto Study
- ZA5160 European Parliament Election Study 2014, Voter Study, First Post-Election Survey
- ZA5161 European Parliament Election Study 2014, Voter Study, Supplementary Study
- ZA5162 European Parliament Election Study 2014, Euromanifesto Study
- ZA5178 European Parliament Election Study, Longitudinal Media Study 1999, 2004, 2009
PIREDEU
PIREDEU is a collaborative project on “Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union”, coordinated by the European University Institute (EUI) and its Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS). The project is funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme from 2008 up to 2011. The EUI/RSCAS is responsible for the overall management and coordination of this design study. GESIS´ main task within the project is providing expertise on coding, long-term archiving, dissemination, and documentation of the data.
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- ZA5048 European Parliament Election Study 2009, Candidate Study
- ZA5055 European Parliament Election Study 2009, Voter Study
- ZA5056 European Parliament Election Study 2009, Media Study
- ZA5057 European Parliament Election Study 2009, Euromanifesto Study
- ZA5178 European Parliament Election Study, Longitudinal Media Study 1999, 2004, 2009

ZA5048: European Parliament Election Study 2009, Candidate Study