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Description
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The 2013 Australian Election Study (au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.01259) is the tenth in a series of surveys beginning in 1987 that have been timed to coincide with Australian Federal Elections. The series also builds on the 1967, 1969 and 1979 Australian Political Attitudes Surveys. The Australian Election Studies aim to provide a long-term perspective on stability and change in the political attitudes and behaviour of the Australian electorate, and investigate the changing social bases of Australian politics as the economy and society modernise and change character. In addition to these long-term goals, they examine the political issues prevalent in the current election and assess their importance for the election result. The 2013 survey replicates many questions from the previous Australian Election Studies, but also introduces new questions regarding immigrants to Australia. Other sections cover the respondent's interest in the election campaign and politics, their past and present political affiliation, evaluation of parties and candidates, alignment with parties on various election issues, evaluation of the current economic situation, and attitudes to a range of election issues including global warming, taxation, education, unemployment, health and Medicare, refugees and asylum seekers, and population policy. Opinions on social policy issues including abortion, equal opportunities, same sex marriages, and Australia's security were also covered in the 2013 Australian Election Study. Background variables include level of education, employment status, occupation, type of employer, position at workplace, trade union membership, sex, age, own and parents' country of birth, parents' political preferences, religion, marital status, income, and where applicable, the occupation, trade union membership and political preference of the respondent's partner. The 2013 Australian Election Study is the second in the AES series to provide the option of completing the questionnaire online via a unique password, or via hardcopy. 576 of the 3,955 responses (14.6 percent) were completed online. This data file is also supplemented with division level election results from the Australian Electoral Commission election results website. These variables are found under the variable group "AEC Election Results". Information on the source of these election results and the method by which they were created is available in a Stata *.do syntax file located in the other study materials section.
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Keyword
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Attitudes, Defence, Economic policy, Elections, Environment, Ethnic groups, Immigration, International relations, Internet, Political parties, Politicians, Politics, Republicanism, Shares, Social policy, Taxation |
