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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.

Three wave survey on voters' opinions:
before, between and after the Dutch parliamentary elections of 15 May 2002 and 22
January 2003. Political interest and communication/ most important
national problem/ party adherence/ party membership/ government policy
satisfaction/ vote intention Second Chamber 2002/ perception of poll results/
political (position) issues: euthanasia/ political (position) issues: income
differences/ political (position) issues: asylum seekers/ political (position)
issues: crime/ opinion representation/ left-right self-rating/ previous voting
behavior/ sympathy scores for political parties/ sympathy scores for politicians/
political knowledge: photo questions/ coalation preference before elections
2002/ party preference father/ party preference mother/ composition of
household/ composition of household: income/ background characteristics of
respondent: social and economic variables/ background characteristics of
respondent: religion/ social class/ background characteristics of partner:
social and economic variables/ background characteristics of partner: religion/
background characteristics of breadwinner: social and economic variables/
interview information/ resignation Purple cabinet/ murder of Pim Fortuyn/
interest and activities in campaign/ voting behavior Second Chamber 2002/
influence on turnout/ number of seats after election/ (post) materialist
values/ social participation/ trust in (political) instutions/ sympathy scores
for political parties/ sympathy score for politicians/ political (position)
issues: nuclear/ political (position) issues: ethnic minorities/ political
(position) issues: european unification/ satisfaction with democracy/ faith in
prospective Prime Ministers/ external political efficacy/ internal political
efficacy/ political cynism/ social isolation/ probability of future vote for
various parties/ civic competence and civic political participation/
confessional attitude/ progressive-conservative/ party choice if elections were
held tomorrow/ resignation Balkende cabinet/ political interest/ importance/
political communication/ most important national problem/ national symbols/
crime punishment/ voting behavior Second Chamber 2003/ democratic reform/
coalition preference after elections 2003

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.