The Capital, Privilege and Political Participation in Britain and Beyond project uses data from an original survey, interviews conducted with MPs, activists and volunteers, and less active members of the public, as well as focus groups held after political engagement events.
Over the course of the project, all of the data will be made available via this website and the University of Strathclyde’s online repository. You can also view information about the variables in the survey data below.
Survey Data
- Education level
- Employment status
- Last paid employment
- Relationship status
- Housing status
- Household size
- Children in household
- Ethnicity
- Sexuality
- Parental occupational class
- Parental education level
- Age left education
- Private school attendance
- Region of residence
- Self-perceived accent
- Disability limitations
- Health conditions
- Number of children
- Religious involvement
Variables: Political Engagement
- Politics for you
- Political person
- Political interest
- Discussion of politics
- Perceived understanding and knowledge of politics
- Political knowledge
- Economic dimension of ideology
- Social dimension of ideology
- Left-right self-placement
- Party identity
Variables: Political Participation
- Official positions
- Political acts
- Possible political acts
- Organisation involvement
- Organisation civic skills
- Donating
- Volunteering
- Membership length
- Unpaid position length
- Organisations supported
- Selected reasons for non-involvement
- Ranked reasons for non-involvement
- Past vote
- Religious involvement
- Daily use of time
- Income
- Keeping up with bills
- State benefits received
- Housing status
- Types of property owned
- Political acts recruitment
- Organisation recruitment
- Occupational status of acquaintances
- Social network size
- Social network interaction
- Social network homogeneity
- Social network strength
- General social trust
- Work-based civic skills
- Cultural activities outside the home
- Eating out venues
- Eating out cuisines
- Cultural activities in the home
- Music genres listened to
- Film genres watched
- Holiday frequency
- Holiday activities
- Newspaper readership
Variables: Perceptions of Politics
- Private education of MPs
- External political efficacy
- Internal political efficacy
- Attention paid by elected representatives
- When MPs lose touch
- Selected indicators of difference in politics
- Ranked indicators of difference in politics
- Privilege of those in politics
Variables: Perceptions of Privilege
- Private education of MPs
- Selected reasons for status difference
- Ranked reasons for status difference
- Reasons for own status
- Impact of background on own status
- Selected indicators of status
- Ranked indicators of status
- Selected indicators of difference in politics
- Ranked indicators of difference in politics
- Self-perceived status
- Privilege of those in politics
- Self-esteem
- Internal political efficacy
- Left-right self-placement
- Party identity
- Reasons for own status
- Impact of background on own status
- Selected indicators of difference in politics
- Ranked indicators of difference in politics
- Self-perceived status
- Privilege of those in politics
- Self-perceived accent
- Disability limitations
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