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Election Study Notes on Module 4 (ZA5182)
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FOR COUNTRY SPECIFIC INFORMATION
see Election Study Notes
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VARIABLE NOTES: D5006_2
The Voting Age Population (VAP) includes all citizens above the legal voting age in a country. It is not intended to be a precise measure of the number of citizens entitled to vote as it does not take into account legal or systematic impediments such as resident non-citizens. Rather, its intent is to provide an estimate of turnout besides estimates based solely on an electoral register. Voter registers are often outdated or inaccurate or in some circumstances are not used for elections (e.g.: 1994 South African elections).
In some polities, voters are registered automatically and hence it might be expected that the electoral register measure and the voting age population would be identical. This is not always the case for the reasons set out above. However, and unless we can verify accuracy, CSES reports the voting age population as listed by the IDEA. However, ELECTION STUDY NOTES below do alert users to instances where voter registration is automatic and thus to cases which in theory the ER and VAP estimates could be identical.
Turnout data refers to lower house elections unless otherwise specified. Please refer to ELECTION STUDY NOTES.
In Presidential elections with two rounds of voting, turnout data refers to first round of elections.
Turnout data primarily comes from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) Voter Turnout Database. During the fielding of Module 4, the IDEA website from where the data was sourced changed. The most up to date website is: http://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/voter-turnout (Date accessed: May 17, 2018). Previously, data was also obtained from the old IDEA website, previously available at: http://www.oldsite.idea.int/vt/index.cfm. This URL is no longer active at the time of publication.
If source deviates from the above, it is detailed in the ELECTION STUDY NOTES.
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VARIABLE NOTES: D5006_2
The Voting Age Population (VAP) includes all citizens above the legal voting age in a country. It is not intended to be a precise measure of the number of citizens entitled to vote as it does not take into account legal or systematic impediments such as resident non-citizens. Rather, its intent is to provide an estimate of turnout besides estimates based solely on an electoral register. Voter registers are often outdated or inaccurate or in some circumstances are not used for elections (e.g.: 1994 South African elections).
In some polities, voters are registered automatically and hence it might be expected that the electoral register measure and the voting age population would be identical. This is not always the case for the reasons set out above. However, and unless we can verify accuracy, CSES reports the voting age population as listed by the IDEA. However, ELECTION STUDY NOTES below do alert users to instances where voter registration is automatic and thus to cases which in theory the ER and VAP estimates could be identical.
Turnout data refers to lower house elections unless otherwise specified. Please refer to ELECTION STUDY NOTES.
In Presidential elections with two rounds of voting, turnout data refers to first round of elections.
Turnout data primarily comes from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) Voter Turnout Database. During the fielding of Module 4, the IDEA website from where the data was sourced changed. The most up to date website is: http://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/voter-turnout (Date accessed: May 17, 2018). Previously, data was also obtained from the old IDEA website, previously available at: http://www.oldsite.idea.int/vt/index.cfm. This URL is no longer active at the time of publication.
If source deviates from the above, it is detailed in the ELECTION STUDY NOTES.
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CSES is a collaborative program of research among election study teams from around the world. The research program as well as the questionnaire and the study design are developed by an international committee of leading social researchers. Participating countries include a common module of survey questions in their post-election studies. The data contain information on individual choice behavior, demographics, the constituencies, the national election results and the political systems. The studies are then merged into a single, free, public dataset for use in comparative study and cross-level analysis.
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Die CSES ist eine weltweite Kooperation von Wahlforschern. Das Forschungsprogramm, der Fragebogen und das Studiendesign werden durch ein internationales Planungskomitee führender Sozialforscher erstellt. Teilnehmende Länder implementieren einen einheitlichen Fragenkomplex in ihre Nachwahlstudien. Die erhoben Daten umfassen das individuelle Wahlverhalten, politische Einstellungen und sozio-demographische Merkmale sowie Angaben zu den Wahlbezirken, den nationalen Wahlergebnissen und dem nationalen politischen System. Die einzelnen Länderstudien werden in einen gemeinsamen Datensatz integriert und stehen der Wissenschaft für vergleichende und länderübergreifende Untersuchungen frei zur Verfügung.
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