SLOVAK ELECTION DATA PROJECT: RESULTS OF THE 2006 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC
DATA SET DOCUMENTATION
Marek Hlavac Georgetown University mhlavac@alumni.princeton.edu
Last update: 28 June 2010
Available at: http://sites.google.com/site/marekhlavac/slovak_election_data_project
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SLOVAK ELECTION DATA PROJECT The Slovak Election Data Project makes election data from the Slovak Republic available to academic researchers, students, policy-makers and the general public. The data sets are constructed from publicly available information published by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic (Štatistický úrad Slovenskej republiky). They are provided in a number of standard computer-readable formats, and – as such – are more convenient for use in research and analysis than the .xls files provided by the Statistical Office. The project is managed by Marek Hlavac, currently a graduate student at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He can be reached by e-mail at mhlavac@alumni.princeton.edu.
Disclaimer: The Slovak Election Data Project is not affiliated with any government, academic or research institution. All data sets and programs are provided without any warranty - without even the warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall the manager of the Slovak Election Data Project be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or special damages of any type or nature resulting from the use of any of the provided data sets or programs.
DATA SET USE Please feel free to use our data set in your research. If you are using our data set that contains results of the 2006 parliamentary election in Slovakia, we ask you, however, to include the following citation in your paper or publication: Hlavac, Marek. 2010. "Results of the 2006 Parliamentary Election in the Slovak Republic - Data Set." Slovak Election Data Project, 28 June 2010.
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DATA DESCRIPTION The slovakia_parl_election_2006 data set contains the final results of Slovakia’s 2006 parliamentary election. This election was held on June 17th, 2006. The data set contains the number and proportion of valid ballots cast for each participating political party at the municipality, district, ward, region and country levels. At the district, ward, region and country levels, furthermore, the data set includes information about the number of voting precincts, voter eligibility and turnout, as well as the number of voters who cast their votes in person at the polling station, and of those who voted from abroad by mail. The data set consists of five types of records (indicated by record_type) based on the administrative units that the record covers:
Value of record_type
English description
Slovak equivalent
1
municipality
obec
2
district
okres
3
ward
obvod
(also called ‘territorial district’ by the Statistical Office) 4
region
kraj
5
country
Slovenská republika
(Slovak Republic)
Depending on the administrative unit that your analysis focuses on, you may wish to restrict the data set only to the relevant record type. If, for instance, you are doing your analysis at the ward level, you may wish to keep only observations with record_type = 3.
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Variable descriptions: Record-keeping: Variable name
Variable description
record_type
Record type: 1 municipality; 2 district; 3 ward; 4 region; 5 country
region
Region name
ward
Ward name
district
District name
municipality
Municipality name
The following variables are not available at the municipal level: Variable name
Variable description
voters_eligible
Number of eligible voters
voters_participated
Number of voters who participated in the election
voter_turnout
Election voter turnout (in %) = participated / eligible
voted_from_abroad
Number of ballots submitted from abroad - election by mail
voted_in_person
Number of ballots submitted in person at polling station
voting_precincts
Number of voting precincts
The remaining variables are available at all administrative levels: Variable name
Variable description
valid_ballots
Number of valid ballots cast
count_(party abbreviation)
Number of valid ballots won by political party represented by (party abbreviation)
pct_(party abbreviation)
Proportion (in %) of valid ballots won by party represented by (party abbrev.)
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Party abbreviations: Party abbreviation
Name of the party
in data set
(English translation in brackets)
LB
Ľavicový blok (Left-Wing Bloc) Strana občianskej solidarity
SOS
(Party of Civic Solidarity) MISIA 21 – Nová kresťanská demokracia
MISIA_21
(Mission 21 – New Christian Democracy) Strana demokratickej ľavice
SDL
(Party of the Democratic Left) Združenie robotníkov Slovenska
ZRS
(Association of the Workers of Slovakia) Kresťansko-demokratické hnutie
KDH
(Christian-Democratic Movement) SLNKO
Slovenká národná koalícia – Slovenská vzájomnosť (Slovak National Coalition – Slovak Mutuality) Aliancia nového občana
ANO
(Alliance of the New Citizen) HZD
Hnutie za demokraciu (Movement for Democracy)
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continued from the previous page Party abbreviation
Name of the party
in data set
(English translation in brackets)
SMK_MKP
Strana maďarskej koalície – Magyar Koalíció Pártja (Party of the Hungarian Coalition)
SF
Slobodné fórum (The Free Forum) Občianska konzervatívna strana
OKS
(Civic Conservative Party) PS
Prosperita Slovenska (The Prosperity of Slovakia)
LS_HZDS
Ľudová strana – Hnutie za demokratické Slovensko (People’s Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia)
ASV
Slovenská demokratická a kresťanská únia – Demokratická strana (Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party)
KSS
Komunistická strana Slovenska (Communist Party of Slovakia) Slovenská ľudová strana
SLS
(Slovak People’s Party) SDKU_DS
Slovenská demokratická a kresťanská únia – Demokratická strana (Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party)
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continued from the previous page Party abbreviation
Name of the party
in data set
(English translation in brackets)
SMER
SMER – Sociálna demokracia (Direction – Social Democracy)
SNS
Slovenská národná strana (Slovak National Party)
NADEJ
NÁDEJ (Hope)
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