The study was conducted by Philip Converse, John Meisel, Maurice Pinard, Peter Regenstreif, and Mildred Schwartz.
The data was collected through personal interviews from a stratified probability cross-section sample of the Canadian population eligible to vote in 1965.
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This post-election survey spanned a wide array of political, sociological, and personal data. The main thrust of the investigation was directed toward the respondents' political attitudes and opinions, and their perceptions of the Canadian parties, leaders, and campaign activities.
Variable categories include: province; constituency; size of place; problems facing Canada; national problems of special concern to R; R's feelings about the election outcome; level of government to handle problems, federal or provincial; power and influence of individual provincial governments; level of government more influential to R; R's opinion of what election issues were; importance to R of of social welfare, economic issues, English-French Canadian relations, flag issue, Canadian unity, corruption in government, majority government; importance of strong leadership; would R change his vote to support a majority government; interest in politics; political efficacy and cynicism, including statements on government corruption, wasting of tax monies, trust in government, fair break from government, knowledgeability of government officials, voting as effective political weapon, government cares about people, politics too difficult to understand, people have no say in government, elected officials lose touch with constituency, too many intellectuals in government; respondent's financial situation, including satisfaction, past and future improvement, effect of election, recent unemployment; provinces which are better/worse off; provinces in which R would/would not like to live; which part of country are political figures connected to: Diefenbaker, Pearson, Douglas, Thompson, Caouette; best prime minister for Canada; similarities and differences between political parties; R's concept of ideal party for Canada, of Liberal party, of Conservative party, of New Democratic Party, Social Credit Party, of Crediditiste Party; evaluations of performance of Members of Parliament; R's past and present political party identification; party, leader or local candidate is most important criterion for vote decision; vote allegiance to party if bad candidate or bad policies; R's parents' political interest and identification; R's knowledge of candidates; R's past federal and provincial voting behaviour and recall; (Quebec only) 1962 federal election vote recall; 1963 federal election vote recall; 1965 federal election vote recall and behaviour; last provincial election vote recall; most important level of election in which to vote, federal, provincial, or local; R's campaign activities; opinions on political contributions and finances.
Demographic data includes: marital status; occupation of main wage earner; education; perceived social status; religion; church attendance; national origin of ancestors; country of birth; year immigrated; language spoken at home; where raised; inter-provincial mobility; group associations: labour union, trade association, farm organization, professional association, other voluntary association; (Quebec only) visiting with others; age; family income group, sex.
The codebook for this dataset is available through the UBC Library catalogue, with call number JL193 .C3525 1965.
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