Data from the GIPEyOP online election poll for the 2015 Spanish General election

José M Pavía; Vicente Coll-Serrano; Rubén Cuñat-Giménez; Salvador Carrasco-Arroyo

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105719

Data from the GIPEyOP online election poll for the 2015 Spanish General election

Data Brief. 2020 May 18:31:105719. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105719. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Authors

José M Pavía¹, Vicente Coll-Serrano², Rubén Cuñat-Giménez², Salvador Carrasco-Arroyo²

Affiliations

¹ GIPEyOP, UMMICS, Department of Applied Economics, University of Valencia, Spain.
² Department of Applied Economics, University of Valencia, Spain.

Abstract

The general elections of 2015 in Spain took place in the middle of the Great Recession after several years of austerity economic policies. This election caused a political earthquake that shook the Spanish party system. During the campaign of that election, GIPEyOP (Elections and Public Opinion Research Group from University of Valencia) conducted a survey to collect relevant data about the electorate beliefs, intentions and motivations. This article describes the data set attained, which comprises 71 variables after removing, to ensure full anonymity, those variables that would potentially allow respondents to be identified. Respondents answered a self-administered online questionnaire and were recruited using chain sampling. A total of 14,261 valid observations were collected between 27^th November and 18^th December 2015. GIPEyOP employed the data collected up to 14^th December to deliver a prediction of the election outcomes during that election campaign. Among other issues, this data set may be reused to assess theories of expectations' formation, to spot how social networks spread geographically and to measure gender, age and education technological gap of the Spanish population.

Keywords: Election polls; Online surveys; Public opinion; Spanish General elections; Voting.