ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'> <html><head><title>Title Page</title><meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'><style type='text/css'>h1 { margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; padding:0px; font-size:large; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; color:#000; }h2 { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; }h2.myclass { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; text-align:center;}h3 { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; }h3.myclass { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; text-align:center;}h4 { font-size:x-large; font-family:garamond, serif; color:#09f; text-align:center; margin:0px 0px 5px 0px; padding:0px;}h5 { font-size:13px; font-family:verdana, arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; margin:0px 0px 5px 50px; padding:0px;}i.myclass{color:#07a;}</style></head><body> <H1> Wales Life and Times Study (Welsh Assembly Election Study), 2003 </H1> <H3 class='myclass'> UKDA study number:5052</h3> <H2 class='myclass'>Principal Investigators </H2> <H3 class='myclass'> Jones, R. Wyn<br>University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Department of International Studies<br>Heath, A.<br>University of Oxford. Department of Sociology<br>National Centre for Social Research<br> </H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Data Collector</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>National Centre for Social Research<br></H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Sponsors</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>Economic and Social Research Council<br>University College London. School of Public Policy. Constitution Unit<br></H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Distributed by</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.</H3> <H3 class='myclass'> December 2004 </H3> <div style='page-break-before:always'></div> <H1>&nbsp;</H1><H1>Bibliographic Citation</H1> <H5> All works which use or refer to these materials should acknowledge these sources by means of bibliographic citation. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for bibliographic indexes, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: </h5> <H5> Jones, R. Wyn, Heath, A. and National Centre for Social Research, <i> Wales Life and Times Study (Welsh Assembly Election Study), 2003</i> [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], December 2004. SN: 5052, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-5052-1 </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1 >Acknowledgement</h1> <h5> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials, should acknowledge the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive, and to acknowledge Crown Copyright where appropriate. <br> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials should carry a statement that the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive bear no responsibility for their further analysis or interpretation. </h5><H5>&nbsp;</H5> <h5><b>Copyright: </b><br> held jointly between University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and National Centre for Social Research </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>Disclaimer</H1> <h5> Although all efforts are made to ensure the quality of the materials, neither the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections, nor the UK Data Archive bear any responsibility for the accuracy or comprehensiveness of these materials.<br> </h5><h5>&nbsp;</h5><h5>All rights reserved. No part of these materials may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the UK Data Archive.<br><br>UK Data Archive<br> University of Essex<br> Wivenhoe Park<br> Colchester<br> Essex C04 3SQ<br> United Kingdom<br>www.data-archive.ac.uk <br><br> </h5> <h2 style='page-break-before:always'> 5052 . Wales Life and Times Study (Welsh Assembly Election Study), 2003<br> </h2><h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3>Depositor:</h3> <h5>National Centre for Social Research</h5> <h3>Principal Investigators:</h3> <h5>Jones, R. Wyn , University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Department of International Studies</h5> <h5>Heath, A. , University of Oxford. Department of Sociology</h5> <h5>National Centre for Social Research</h5> <H3>Data Collector:</H3> <H5>National Centre for Social Research<br></H5> <H3>Sponsors:</H3><H5> Economic and Social Research Council<br>University College London. School of Public Policy. Constitution Unit<br> <i class='myclass'> Grant Number:</i> L219252042 </H5> <h3>Project Number: </h3> <h5>P ; 2207</h5> <h3> Other Acknowledgements: </h3> <h5>John Curtice, University of Strathclyde and Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST).<br></h5> <h3> Abstract: </h3> <h5>The Wales Life and Times Studies (WLTS) have grown out of a programme of work conducted by the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST) in collaboration with the Institute of Welsh Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in response to the constitutional changes brought about by devolution.<br> <br> In 1997 a referendum study was conducted in Wales and Scotland (held at the UK Data Archive under SN:3952), followed by election studies covering the first elections in 1999 to the Welsh National Assembly (held under SN:4180) and Scottish Parliament, both funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). When the ESRC announced its intention to carry out surveys in all parts of the UK in 2001 and 2003 under the Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme, the Welsh component became WLTS.<br> <br> An earlier Welsh election study, covering the 1979 general election, is also held at the UK Data Archive under SN:1591, but is not part of the WLTS series.<br>The 2003 Wales Life and Times Study served as a Welsh Assembly Election Study for the 2003 Welsh National Assembly elections. There was no general election held in 2003, hence the name change of the survey compared with the previous wave held in 2001. CREST was responsible for designing compatible questions for the 2003 study that were also fielded in England on the British Social Attitudes Survey, in Scotland on the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, and in Northern Ireland on the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.<br> <br> An additional grant from the Constitution Unit, University College, London, enabled the addition of a module of questions on proportional representation, which built on similar questions asked on the Welsh Assembly Election Study 1999 (SN:4180).</h5><h3>Main Topics:</h3><h5>The dataset contains the replies of 988 respondents in Wales to questions on media consumption, party identification, voting in the Welsh National Assembly election, proportional representation, leadership evaluations, retrospective evaluations, political issues, political trust, national identity, constitutional issues, effectiveness of devolved institutions, Welsh language and party images. Classificatory information was also collected on national identity, origin and Welsh speaking, sex and age, religion, marital status, housing, economic activity and job details, and income.<br> <br> Standard Measures:<br> Left-right scale - self-completion questionnaire Q1a-f.</h5> <h3>Coverage: </h3><h5> <br><i class='myclass'>Dates of Fieldwork: </i> May 2003 - July 2003 <br><i class='myclass'>Country: </i> Wales <br><i class='myclass'>Spatial Units: </i> Welsh National Assembly Constituencies; Local Authority Districts <br><i class='myclass'>Observation Units: </i> Individuals <br><i class='myclass'>Kind of Data: </i> Numeric data; Individual (micro) level </h5> <h3>Universe Sampled: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Location of Units of Observation:</i> National <br><i class='myclass'>Population:</i> Adults aged 18+ living in private households in Wales during 2003. </h5> <h3>Methodology: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Time Dimensions: </i> Repeated cross-sectional study <br><i class='myclass'>Sampling Procedures: </i> Multi-stage stratified random sample <br><i class='myclass'>Number of Units:</i> (A) 1760 (target) 988 (obtained) <br><i class='myclass'>Method of Data Collection: </i> Face-to-face interview; Self-completion <br><i class='myclass'>Weighting: </i> Weighting factor used: WTFACTOR </h5><h3>Language(s) of Written Materials: </h3> <h5>Study Description: English<br>Study Documentation: English<br></h5> <h3>Access: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Access Conditions: </i> The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See <a href='http://www.esds.ac.uk/orderingdata/termsandConditions.asp'>terms and conditions</a> for further information. <br><i class='myclass'>Availability: </i> ESDS Access and Preservation, UK Data Archive <br><i class='myclass'>Contact: </i></b> Help desk: help@esds.ac.uk<br> </h5> <h3>Date of First Release:</h3><h5> 1 December 2004<br></h5> <h3> Copyright: </h3> <h5> held jointly between University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and National Centre for Social Research</h5> <br><br> <h3> File last updated: </h3> <h5>4 January 2012</h5> </body></html>