Variable : Groupings of Political Parties

Variables serve as the dimensions of nCubes, and are generally based on the questions on forms such as the census schedule. However, in the aggregate data held in the Vision of Britain system we do not store the individual responses but counts of the number of each kind of response, so variables are made up of categories, such as age groups.

Identifier:
V_POL_PARTY_GROUP
Name:
Groupings of Political Parties
Type:
Variable (V)
Text:
This variable is a greatly simplified set of categories for organising the several hundred 'political parties' that appear in the election result data. They have been defined based almost entirely on the names of parties, rather than on detailed research into the political programmes of parties or individual candidates.

Variable " Groupings of Political Parties " is contained within:


Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:

Entity ID Entity Name
T_POL Political Life

Datasets or nCubes, containing the actual data:

Entity ID Entity Name
N_POL_PARTY_GROUP Groupings of Political Parties



Variable " Groupings of Political Parties " contains:


Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

Entity ID Entity Name
V_POL_PARTY Political Parties

Categories, defining the values available for each variable :

Entity ID Entity Name
C_POL_PARTY_GROUP_1 Conservative
C_POL_PARTY_GROUP_2 Labour
C_POL_PARTY_GROUP_3 Liberal
C_POL_PARTY_GROUP_4 Left
C_POL_PARTY_GROUP_5 Right
C_POL_PARTY_GROUP_6 Nationalist
C_POL_PARTY_GROUP_7 Other