Data sources

Danish Election Studies 1973-2005

There is disagreement over the ways to fight unemployment, and there are many proposals. People disagree both as to whether these proposals will work, and whether they are good or bad because they may also have other effects. I shall now read some proposals to you and ask whether you think it is a good or bad proposal, taking everything into account

V164: Forcing the unoccupied to take work far from where they live

V167: Setting up individual plans of action for each unemployed

V168: Limiting young people's access to unemployment benefits

V169 Reducing benefits after one year of unemployment

• 1. Good proposal

• 2. Bad proposal

• 3. Don't know

V58: Jeg vil nu lase en rakke problemer op for Dem, og jeg vil gerne hore, hvem De mener, er bedst til at løse problemet; en socialdemokratisk ledet regering, eller en borgerlig regering?

I shall now read some problems to you, and I want to know who you think is better at solving the problem: the present government led by the Social Democrats, or a bourgeois government?

Til at sikre den rette balance mellem skattetryk og social tryghed? (Secure the right balance between taxes and welfare)

• 1. Socialdemokratisk ledet regering (Present social democratic government)

• 2. Borgerlig regering (Bourgeois government)

• 3. Ingen forskel (No difference)

Assessing a social democratic government to perform a balanced policy is coded as 1 and other categories as 0.

V106: Indvandring udgor en alvorlig trussel mod vores nationale egenart.

(Immigration constitutes a serious threat to our national culture)

• 1. Helt enig (Totally agree)

• 2. Narmest enig (Partly agree)

• 3. Hverken/eller (Neither agree nor disagree)

• 4. Næmest uenig (Partly disagree)

• 5. Helt uenig (Totally disagree)

Coded as dummy variable in analysis: respondents agreeing fully or partly with the statement ‘Immigration constitutes a serious threat to our national culture’ are coded as 1, others are coded as 0. Other answers such as ‘don't know’ have been treated as missing values.