Title: Canadian election survey, 2004.

Series title: Canadian election surveys (CES)

Principal investigator(s): Blais, André, Elisabeth Gidengil, Neil Nevitte, Patrick Fournier, Joanna Everitt.

Producer: York University. Institute for Social Research (ISR)

Date of creation: 2005/06/27

Funding agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC)

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Distributor: Montreal, QC: Université de Montréal. Faculté des artes et des sciences. Departement de science politique

Date of distribution: 2005-06-29

Access conditions/restrictions: Unrestricted. UT/DLS does not redisseminate.

Summary: The 2004 Canadian Election Study was financed by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Elections Canada and the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) are partners in this project. The study consists of a three-wave survey conducted by the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at York University. It includes a rolling cross-section survey with over 4300 interviews, a post-election survey with more than 3100 of the campaign survey respondents, and a self-administered mail-back questionnaire filled out by more than 1500 of the post-election respondents.

The primary mandate of the study is to provide a thorough account of the election, to underline the main reasons why people vote the way they do, to indicate what does and does not change during the campaign and from one election to another, and to highlight similarities and differences between voting and elections in Canada and in other democratic countries. The second mandate is to contribute to the development of scientific knowledge regarding the motivations of voters and the meanings of elections and election campaigns in democratic societies. The third mandate is to assemble a rich set of data about Canadians' attitudes and opinions on a wide variety of social, economic, and political issues, and to make that data publicly available to researchers in political science, sociology, economics, communications, and journalism.

Geographic coverage: Canada

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Date(s) of collection:2004-05-23 to 2004-06-27 and 2004-07-05 to 2004-09-19

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Mode of data collection: telephone interview and self-administered questionnaire

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