SLOVAK ELECTION DATA PROJECT: RESULTS OF THE 2002 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

DATA SET DOCUMENTATION

Marek Hlavac Georgetown University [email protected]

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 [email protected].

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 2002 parliamentary election in Slovakia, we ask you, however, to include the following citation in your paper or publication: Hlavac, Marek. 2010. "Results of the 2002 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_2002 data set contains the final results of Slovakia’s 2002 parliamentary election. This election was held on September 20th and September 21st, 2002. The data set contains the number and proportion of valid ballots cast for each participating political party at the municipality, district, region and country levels. At the district, region and country levels, furthermore, the data set includes information about the number of voting precincts, voter eligibility, as well as the number of ballots enveloped that were given out to and, in turn, submitted by the voters. The data set consists of four types of records (indicated by record_type) based on the administrative units that the record covers:

Value of record_type

English description

Slovak equivalent

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municipality

obec

2

district

okres

4

region

kraj

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country

Slovenská republika

(Slovak Republic)

Please note that this data set does not include results at the ward (obvod) level, as this administrative unit was not established until 2004. 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 district 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; 4 region; 5 country

region

Region 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

ballots_given_out

Number of ballot envelopes given out to voters

ballots_submitted

Number of ballot envelopes voters submitted

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)

SZS

Strana zelených na Slovensku (Green Party of Slovakia) Strana občianskej solidarity

SDKU

(Party of Civic Solidarity) Strana za demokratické práva občanov

SDPO

(Party for the Democratic Rights of Citizens) Strana demokratickej ľavice

SDL

(Party of the Democratic Left) SMER

SMER (Direction)

HZDS

Hnutie za demokratické Slovensko (Movement for a Democratic Slovakia) Občianska konzervatívna strana

OKS

(Civic Conservative Party) HZD

Hnutie za demokraciu (Movement for Democracy)

ROMA

Politické hnutie Rómov na Slovensku – ROMA (Political Movement of the Roma in Slovakia – ROMA)

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continued from the previous page Party abbreviation

Name of the party

in data set

(English translation in brackets)

KSS

Komunistická strana Slovenska (Communist Party of Slovakia)

SMK_MKP

Strana maďarskej koalície – Magyar Koalíció Pártja (Party of the Hungarian Coalition) Kresťansko-demokratické hnutie

KDH

(Christian-Democratic Movement) Ľudová strana

LS

(People’s Party) Združenie robotníkov Slovenska

ZRS

(Association of the Workers of Slovakia) Ľavicový blok

LB

(Left-Wing Bloc) Aliancia nového občana

ANO

(Alliance of the New Citizen) Béčko – Revolučná robotnícka strana

B_RRS

(B – Revolutionary Workers’ Party) Žena a rodina

ZAR

(Woman and Family)

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continued from the previous page Party abbreviation

Name of the party

in data set

(English translation in brackets)

SDA

Sociálnodemokratická alternative (Social Democratic Alternative)

SNJ

Slovenská národná jednota (Slovak National Unity)

NOSNP

Nezávislá občianska strana nezamestnaných a poškodených (Independent Civic Party of the Unemployed and Damaged)

SNS

Slovenská národná strana (Slovak National Party)

ROSA

Robotnícka strana ROSA (Worker’s Party ROSA)

ROISR

Rómska občianska iniciatíva Slovenskej republiky (Roma Civic Initiative of the Slovak Republic)

PSNS

Pravá slovenská národná strana (The Right Slovak National Party)

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