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Two wave survey on voters' opinions: before and after the Dutch parliamentary elections of May 3, 1994. Pre-election wave: reading of newspapers, tv-newscast exposure / most important national problems / party identification and membership / evaluation of government policy on economy, employment and respondents personal finances / perception of main parties' standpoints on various political issues: euthanasia, crime, income differences, nuclear plants, ethnic minorities, R's own viewpoints regarding these matters / voting at last municipal elections /feasibility of multi-party system / sympathy rating of parties and leading politicians / coalition preference / party identification of parents / most essential goals in life / the inflow of asylum-seekers / the meaning of life / the life of Brian / Post-election wave: exposure to election campaigns, participation in it / voting behaviour, time of vote decision, voting stability / image of political parties regarding their ability to solve specific problems: crime, employment, pollution, welfare-fraud, financing deficit, pensioners' incomes / importance ranking of these problems / voting for European parliament / perception of main parties' standpoints on the unification of Europe, R's own standpoints in this matter / who will be the best prime minister / familiarity with politicians / best &amp, worst qualities of leading politicians / left-right rating of political parties / meaning of the concepts of left and right / sense of political efficacy / image of politicians and the political system / civic competence / relation between citizens and politicians / importance of the city council ( gemeenteraad ), provincial states ( provinciale staten ), national and European parliament to R's personal life / importance ranking of various political and personal issues / political participation / who are most entitled to a job / attitude to foreigners / racism / positive discrimination / chance that R will ever vote for other political parties / role of religion in public life, pillarization. Background variables: basic characteristics/ residence/ household characteristics/ occupation/employment/ income/capital assets/ education/ social class/ politics/ religion/ readership, mass media, and 'cultural' exposure/ organizational membership.

Two wave survey on voters' opinions: before and after the Dutch parliamentary elections of May 6, 1998. Political interest and communication / most important national problems /
party adherence / party membership / government policy satisfaction /
voting intention Second Chamber 1994 / general attitude towards (not)
voting / perception of poll results / political issues: euthanasia,
asylum seekers, European Union, ethnic minorities, perception of main
parties standpoint, own stand / political knowledge / membership of the
European Union / left-right self-rating / previous voting behaviour /
sympathy scores for political parties and politicians / political
knowledge: recognition of politician portraits, largest party,
composition of coalition / coalition preference before election / social
and political goals / conditions for Dutch nationality, the
multicultural society / composition of household / household income /
background characteristics: respondent: date of birth, marital status /
background characteristics respondent and partner: education,
occupational status, reasons for not working, occupation, number of
employees, number of working hours / former occupation / willingness to
work in regular job / religious denomination, attendance of religious
services / denomination raised in / respondent: political discussions
and party preference of parents when respondent was aged 10-16 / social
class self image / head of household: education, occupation, number of
working hours, number of employees, reason for not working / parents:
education, occupation, number of working hours, number of employees,
reason for not working / interest and activities in campaign / voting
behaviour Second Chamber 1998, coalition preference after elections /
(post-)materialist values / importance of political issues: income
differences, integration of ethnic minorities, nuclear plants, heavy
traffic on highways, environmental pollution, unemployment, euthanasia,
European Union, financial deficit of the state, level social benefits,
securing good provision for old age, misusing social benefits, asylum
seekers, crime, health care / perception importance of various issues
to political parties: unemployment, environment, fighting crime,
refugees, health care / social participation / perception standpoint
political parties: level of social benefits, nuclear plants /
satisfaction with Dutch democracy: fairness of elections, role of
political parties, members of parliament / satisfaction with Dutch
economy / regional representativeness of the parliament / right to vote
for immigrants / best candidate for prime minister / left-right rating
of political parties / external and internal political efficacy /
political cynicism / social isolation / acceptance of political
decisions / vote probability: other party / civic competence and civic
political participation / religion in politics: pillarization /
social-class self image / nationalism, patriotism, importance of
disobedience, self-control, national anthem and flag, attitude to
foreigners / self administered questionnaire: description of three
persons who are most close to respondent (partner excluded): political
discussions with them, their political stand / contacts with other
persons / trust in institutions: churches, army, judges, press, police,
parliament, administration, big companies, European Union, NATO /
media consumption: watching news and entertainment tv programs,
listening to radio channels, reading newspapers, magazines / political
TV commercials / Internet / approached by political party / political
interest, reading (inter)national news / convincing others to vote for
party.

Two wave survey on voters' opinions: before and after the Dutch parliamentary elections of 2006. political interest and communication/ most important national problem/ resignation Balkenende II/ party adherence and membership/ government policy/ vote intention second chamber 2006/ perception of poll results/ future vote intentions/ political issues: euthanasia/ political issues: income differences/ political issues: asylum seekers/ political issues: crime/ political issues: nuclear plants/ political issues: foreigners/ political issues: european unification/ social issues: opinion respondent/ previous voting behaviour/ political knowledge/ government coalition preferences/ coalition desirability ad coalition probability/ sympathy scores political parties/ emotions political parties/ respondents opinion on crime/ social protest and government response/ background characteristics of respondent/ party preference father/ party preference mother/ background characteristics/ interest political campaign/ voting bahaviour parliamentary elections 2006/ previous votingbehaviour/ trust in voting instruments/ perception of poll results/ vote matchers/ most important topic during elections for respondent/ party able to solve national problem/ opinion representation/ sympathy score political party/ sympathy score party leaders/ left-right rating political party/ satisfaction with democracy/ faith in politician as prime minister/ character traits politicians/ emotions politicians/ external political efficacy/ membership/ civic political participation/ confessional attitude/ EU membership/ democratic reform/ self-completed questionnaireSeveral variables have been excluded from the public data file in order
to protect the privacy of individual respondents. Examples are
municipality, zip code and the regional newspaper a person is reading.
These variables are available for scientific purposes only at Statistics
Netherlands. For more information, contact the Centre for Policy
Related Statistics at Statistics Netherlands via cvb@cbs.nl.

Two wave survey on voters' opinions: before and after the Dutch parliamentary elections of 2010.background characteristics/ political interest and communication/ most important national problem/ resignation Balkenende (IV)/ party adherence and membership/ voting as a civic duty/ government policy/ vote intention second chamber 2010/ perception of poll results/ political issues: euthanasia/ political issues: income differences/ political issues: asylum seekers/ political issues: crime/ political issues: foreigners/ social issues/ previous voting behaviour/ political knowledge/ government coalition preference/ coalition probability/ sympathy scores political parties/ sympathy scores party leaders/ representation: respondent opinion/ respondents opinion on crime/ social protest and government response/ background characteristics/ party preference father/ party preference mother/ interest political campaign/ voting behaviour second chamber 2010/ trust in voting institutions/ perception of poll results/ vote matchers/ most important campaign issue/ party able to solve problem/ opinion representation/ future voting behaviour/ political issues: nuclear plants/ political issues: European unification/ political issues: international military missions/ left-right rating political parties/ satisfaction with democracy/ faith in politicians as prime minister/ external political efficacy/ respondents perception of politicians/ social exclusion respondent/ membership of respondent and household members/ activities and communication to influence government/ trust in institutions/ confidence in economic situation/ confessional attitude/ EU membership/ democratic reform/ self-completed questionnaireSeveral variables have been excluded from the public data file in order
to protect the privacy of individual respondents. Examples are
municipality, zip code and the regional newspaper a person is reading.
These variables are available for scientific purposes only at Statistics
Netherlands. For more information, contact the Centre for Policy
Related Statistics at Statistics Netherlands via cvb@cbs.nl.