Data
Political Parties: CHAPEL HILL EXPERT SURVEY (CHES DATA)
2010 SURVEY
The Chapel Hill expert surveys estimate party positioning on European integration, ideology and policy issues for national parties in a variety of European countries. The first survey was conducted in 1999, with subsequent waves in 2002, 2006, 2010. The number of countries increased from 14 Western European countries in 1999 to 24 current or prospective EU members in 2006 and 2010, and the number of national parties from 143 to 237. The 2010 survey also includes parties in Croatia, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey. Separate surveys were conducted in the Balkan candidate countries. Common to all surveys are questions on parties' general position on European integration, several EU policies, general left/right, economic left/right, and galtan; later surveys contain also questions on non-EU policy issues. The dataset 1999-2006ChapelHillsurvey.sav joins up the 1999, 2002, 2006 surveys.
With thanks to the European Union Center for Excellence, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and the Chair for Multilevel Governance, at the VU University Amsterdam for support.
An updated trend file will be released soon! Please contact Ryan Bakker for details.
Trend file 1999-2010
Codebook trend file 1999-2010
2010 Chapel Hill expert survey
- STATA expert_raw data (in cvs)
- Codebook expert_raw data
- Sample questionnaire
- Background paper (queries: R. Bakker or J. Rovny)
2010 survey team: Ryan Bakker, Catherine de Vries, Erica Edwards, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen, Milada Vachudova
2006 Chapel Hill expert survey
- SPSS expert_means data (in cvs)
- SPSS expert_raw data (in cvs)
- Codebook expert_means
- Codebook expert_raw data
- Questionnaire EU
- Background paper (queries: L. Hooghe)
2002 Chapel Hill expert survey
- SPSS data_means (in cvs)
- SPSS data raw data: West (in cvs) & East (in cvs)
- Codebook
- Questionnaire_West
- Questionnaire_East
- Background paper (queries: L. Hooghe)
1999 Chapel Hill expert survey
- SPSS data_means (in cvs)
- Excel data_raw
- Codebook
- Questionnaire EU
- Background paper (queries: G. Marks or M. Steenbergen)
1999-2006 Chapel Hill expert survey trend file (CHES) [1999-2010 version forthcoming]
How to cite?
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Papers using the 2010 dataset:
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Ryan Bakker, Catherine de Vries, Erica Edwards, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen, Milada Vachudova (2012), "Measuring Party Positions in Europe: The Chapel Hill Expert Survey Trend File, 1999-2010," Party Politics published online 29 November 2012 DOI: 10.1177/1354068812462931.
- Papers using the 2002 or 2006/2007 dataset:
Liesbet Hooghe, Ryan Bakker, Anna Brigevich, Catherine de Vries, Erica Edwards, Gary Marks, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen (2010), "Reliability and Validity of Measuring Party Positions: The Chapel Hill Expert Surveys of 2002 and 2006", European Journal of Political Research, (4): 684-703.
- Papers using the 1999 dataset:
- Marco Steenbergen and Gary Marks (2007). "Evaluating Expert Surveys," European Journal of Political Research, 46(3): 347–366.
- Papers using the Chapel Hill expert survey trend (CHES) data:
- Please refer to all three papers above.
We also conducted a mini-survey in 2007 in five candidate countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey.
2007 Candidate-countries survey
- SPSS expert_means data (in cvs)
- SPSS expert_raw data (in cvs)
- Codebook expert_means
- Codebook expert_raw data
- Questionnaire
Ray-Marks-Steenbergen survey
How to cite?
- In papers using the combined Ray-Marks-Steenbergen dataset, please refer to the Steenbergen/Marks (2007) article and to Leonard Ray (1999), "Measuring party orientations toward European integration: Results from an expert survey," European Journal of Political Research, 36(2): 283–306.