Icelandic National Election Study - ICENES

Here you can download data and information about The Icelandic National Election Study (ICENES) from 1991 to 2007. Questionnaires, codebooks, design reports and data in SPSS and Excel format for these years are now available. Data from ICENES 1983 and 1987 are not ready for publication but will be uploaded as soon as possible. ICENES 2009 will be published in 2013.

About Icelandic National Election Study – ICENES

ICENES has been directed by dr. Olafur Th. Hardarson, professor in Political Science and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Iceland, since the first study in 1983. Since then ICENES has been conducted after every general election in Iceland the last  one in 2009.

ICENES is an extensive study on the electoral and political behaviour of voters in Iceland. Research topics are for example voting behaviour, attitudes towards political parties and democracy, the most important political tasks, participation in primaries and other issues on the political agenda.

ICENES is part of Nordic Electoral Democracy (NED) a Nordic collaborative program on democracy and elections; Comparative Studies of Electoral Systems (CSES) (www.cses.org) and True European Voter (TEV) (www.true-european-voter.eu) that  are international collaborative programs on election studies.

Standardization of datasets between years

Almost all variable names, variable labels and value labels for questions that have been repeated across studies have been standardized in the ICENES data. Users of the data are themselves asked to verify, using the codebooks, that wording of the questions or values have not been changed across studies For example the question about which party the respondent voted for: in 1991 the Social Democratic Party has the value 1 but in 2007 the value 1 refers to the Social Democratic Alliance.

Please cite the Icelandic National Election Study – ICENES 

Those who use the ICENES data, whether it is for a presentation, teaching or publishing, are asked to cite or refer to the study as applicable. Furthermore, please notify Eva Heida Onnudottir (eho@hi.is) via email if you publish a paper using data from ICENES. We plan to publish a ICENES Bibliography citing publications known to utilize the ICENES data.

If you have any queries or comments on ICENES please email Eva Heida Onnudottir (eho@hi.is)