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The 2017 London List Experiment

Description

This dataset is the 2017 London list experiment on voter turnout fielded via online YouGov survey of a sample of 3189 Greater Londoners.The main question reads as follows: The next question deals with the recent general election on 8th June. Here is a list of four (five) things that some people did and some people did not do during the election campaign or on Election Day. Please say how many of these things you did. Here are the four (five) things: (1) Discussed the election with family and friends; (2) (Voted in the election); (3) Criticised a politician on social media; (4) Avoided watching the leaders debates; (5) Put up a poster for a political party in my window or garden. How many of these things did you do? The second item in bracket is the sensitive item. In addition to the above list, there is a direct question asking about turnout: Talking with people about the recent general election on 8th June, we have found that a lot of people didn't manage to vote. How about you, did you manage to vote in the general election?

Format

A data frame containing the following 18 variables for 3189 observations.

ID integer Respondent ID number.
age integer Respondent age in years.
agegrp factor Respondent age group.
gender factor YouGov panel measure of gender.
social_grade factor YouGov panel measure of respondent social grade.
qual factor Measure of highest educational qualification from YouGov panel.
validationfactor factor Detailed measure of turnout validation outcome for respondent.
validturnout integer Summary measure of true respondent turnout.
direct integer Response to direct turnout question asked of list experiment control group.
baselineTurnout integer Response to baseline direct turnout question after the election.
listTreat integer Indicator for list experiment treatment group.
listCount integer Reported item count for list experiment question.
qtime numeric Time taken to answer list experiment question, in seconds.
recallfirst character Respondent recall of first item from list question. Open text response.
recalllast character Respondent recall of last item from list question. Open text response.
recallfirst.hand.correct factor Did respondent correctly recall first list experiment item?
recalllast.hand.correct factor Did respondent correctly recall last list experiment item?
comfort numeric How comfortable do you feel revealing whether you did/did not vote in last election?

Source

The full data set is available at doi:10.7910/DVN/W90Q7B)

References

Kuhn, P. M., & Vivyan, N. (2021). The misreporting trade-off between list experiments and direct questions in practice: Partition validation evidence from two countries. Political Analysis, 1-22.


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