Multilevel Models for British Election Panel

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Multilevel Models for British Election Panel Data

Data

bes.dat (ASCII, tab delimited, variable names)

For each voting occasion there are three rows of data, one for each of the three parties.

Variables:

occ	voting occasion
serialno	voter identifier
year	year of election
constit	identifier for constituency
wt14	weighting variable (not used)
male	[Male] dummy for voter being male
age87	voter's age in 1987
manual	[Manual] dummy for father a manual worker
fv	party voted for (1=Conservative, 2=Labour, 3=Liberal)
right	position of voter on left-right dimension
price	[Inflation] perceived inflation since last elections
rl	position of party on left-right dimension
party	political party (1=Conservative, 2=Labour, 3=Liberal)
rank	rank assigned to the party
age	[Age] age at time of election divided by 10

Some Stata commands

* read data
insheet using bes.dat, clear

* do-file available: bes.do

Acknowledgement

We would like to thank Anthony Heath for allowing us to make the data available.

Source

British Election Panel 1987-1992 from the UK Data Archive.

Reference

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2003). Multilevel logistic regression for polytomous data and rankings. Psychometrika 68, 267-287.

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2004).Generalized Latent Variable Modeling: Multilevel, Longitudinal and Structural Equation Models. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC.