British Election Study, 2014-2023: Combined Internet Panel

  <p>The British Election Study (BES) is one of the longest-running election studies in the world, having taken place at every general election since 1964. The BES explores why people choose to vote (or not) and why they support one party rather than another, as well as wider questions about democracy and political participation. The BES has included panel studies in a relatively small number of recent periods. These panel studies follow the same survey respondents over time in panel study 'waves' of data. Each wave can also be used as a cross-section and datasets include filter variables to find out which respondents are interviewed in all waves, some waves, or just one wave. Panel studies are particularly useful to study within-person change and the evolution of political preferences and electoral behaviours. For more information see the<a title=" British Election Study" href="http://www.britishelectionstudy.com/"> British Election Study</a> website.<br><br>The <em>British Election Study, 2014-2023: Combined Internet Panel</em> contains data from Waves 1-20 of the 2015 and 2019 BES, starting in February 2014 and going through to June 2020. The data includes waves that cover the 2015 General Election, the 2016 EU referendum, the 2017 General Election, and the 2019 General Election. Full details of the methodology and fieldwork are available in the technical report/codebook that accompanies the data release. The data includes boosted samples for Scotland and Wales. There are approximately 30,000 respondents in each wave. Further information about the panel data is available on the <a title="BES Panel study data" href="https://www.britishelectionstudy.com/data-objects/panel-study-data/">BES Panel study data</a> webpage.</p><p>This End User Licence version of the dataset contains all of the usual variables made available in the public access version, plus Middle Super-Output Area classifiers and SOC2010 occupation codes for each respondent.</p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Latest edition information</span><br>For the third edition (July 2022) data and documentation from a later study (SN 8810, now withdrawn) were combined with the materials contained in this study to create one study covering the full BES 2014-2023 Combined Internet Panel.</p>

英国选举研究（British Election Study, BES）是全球存续时间最长的选举研究项目之一，自1964年起便伴随每一届英国大选开展调研。该项目旨在探析民众参与投票（或弃权）的动因、支持特定政党的缘由，以及围绕民主政治与政治参与的更广泛议题。近年来，BES仅在少数周期内设置了面板研究：这类研究以固定受访群体为对象，在多轮数据采集波次中开展长期追踪。每一轮波次数据均可独立作为横截面数据集使用，数据集内置筛选变量，可识别在全部波次、部分波次或仅单一波次中接受访谈的受访者。面板研究尤其适用于分析个体层面的态度变迁，以及政治偏好与选举行为的演进历程。如需获取更多信息，请访问<a href="http://www.britishelectionstudy.com/">英国选举研究官方网站</a>。

《英国选举研究2014-2023：联合互联网面板数据集》涵盖2015年与2019年BES的第1至20轮数据波次，采集周期始于2014年2月，延续至2020年6月。该数据集覆盖了2015年英国大选、2016年欧盟公投、2017年英国大选及2019年英国大选的相关波次数据。数据集配套发布的技术报告与编码手册中，详细记载了研究方法与实地调研流程。本数据集包含苏格兰与威尔士地区的扩容样本，每一轮波次约有3万名受访者。如需了解面板数据的更多细节，请访问<a href="https://www.britishelectionstudy.com/data-objects/panel-study-data/">BES面板研究数据</a>专属网页。

本数据集的最终用户许可版包含公开访问版的全部常规变量，此外还为每位受访者提供了中级超级输出区（Middle Super-Output Area）分类标识与SOC2010职业分类编码。

最新版本说明
本数据集的第三版（2022年7月发布）整合了本研究原有材料与后续一项研究（编号SN 8810，现已撤下）的数据与文档资料，最终形成覆盖完整《英国选举研究2014-2023：联合互联网面板数据集》的整合研究成果。

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集是英国选举研究（British Election Study）的互联网面板数据，覆盖2014年至2026年（最新版为2026年第四版），包含多波调查数据，涉及2024年英国大选和2025年地方选举等关键政治事件。它由多位研究者共同维护，通过UK Data Service发布，并定期更新以整合新数据，用于分析英国选民行为和选举动态。