Australian Election Campaign Television News Coverage 2007 Channel 7 Perth 6pm weighted days

The 2007 election campaign TV news coverage files extend previous sets of TV news coverage data gathered by David Denemark (1998) and by David Denemark, Clive Bean ((Queensland Univ of Technology) and Ian Ward (Univ of Queensland), 2001). The aim of the project was to explore television news coverage of Australian election campaigns and measured the amount of television coverage of political parties, leaders and election issues. National bulletins were collected and local news in Brisbane and Perth during the 2007 federal election campaign. This study was also conducted in 1998 and 2001. This study measures coverage of 12 election issues and 10 other issues as defined in the Australian Election Study, 2007 (ADA No. 1120). This file refers to the Channel 7 PerthNews coverage at 6 pm. Variables include time in seconds given to political parties and political leaders. Also measured was time given to election issues including: education, environment, health, industrial relations and taxation. Prominence of the news bulletin in the news (x10 for lead story; 9 for second story in the bulletin; 8 for third story…1 for 10th or lower story) was used to generate "weighted seconds." The combined weighted seconds on any given leader/party/issue for a given day in the campaign generated "weighted days" measures. All news sessions for during the campaign for the targeted channels were captured. There were NO missing bulletins.本数据集为2007年大选竞选电视新闻报道文件，拓展了David Denemark（1998年）以及David Denemark、Clive Bean（昆士兰科技大学，Queensland University of Technology）与Ian Ward（昆士兰大学，The University of Queensland）2001年收集的电视新闻报道数据集。本项目旨在探究澳大利亚大选竞选的电视新闻报道情况，量化各政党、政党领袖以及竞选议题的电视报道时长。研究收集了2007年联邦大选竞选期间的全国新闻联播，以及布里斯班与珀斯的地方新闻。该研究曾分别于1998年与2001年开展。 本数据集依据2007年澳大利亚选举研究（ADA编号1120）中的定义，对12项竞选议题与10项其他议题进行了报道量统计。本文件对应7号频道（Channel 7）珀斯新闻（PerthNews）晚6点档的报道数据。 统计变量包含各政党、政党领袖获得的报道时长（单位：秒）。同时统计了各类竞选议题的报道时长，涵盖教育、环境、医疗、劳资关系与税收等。此外，新闻条目在新闻联播中的播出优先级被用于计算“加权秒数”：头条新闻权重为10，第二条为9，第三条为8……第十条及以后的新闻权重为1。基于竞选期间单日各领袖/政党/议题的加权秒数总和，可生成“加权天数”指标。 本数据集完整收录了目标频道在竞选期间的所有新闻时段内容，无缺失新闻联播条目。