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EPRG MEP Survey Data
This page presents the data from three surveys of the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) by EPRG (in 2000, 2006, and 2010), as well as data from a survey of the MEPs in the 1989-94 Parliament by Shaun Bowler and David Farrell.
The data from these surveys are available here for academic research purposes only. Access to the datasets and the related files is password-protected. If you would like to access the files please send an e-mail to Simon Hix (s.hix@lse.ac.uk|) with a brief explanation of how you intend to use the data. These data can only be used for academic research purposes.
Data from the 2000, 2006, and 2010 MEP Surveys by EPRG
David Farrell, Simon Hix and Roger Scully have conducted three surveys of the MEPs:
- in 2000 (of the 1999-2004 parliament),
- in 2006 (of the 2004-2009 parliament), and
- in 2010 (of the 2009-2014 parliament).
Each survey was conducted in all the official languages of the EU. The 2000 survey was conducted via a paper-based questionnaire, while the 2006 and 2010 surveys were conducted as on-line surveys.
The 2010 survey included seven categories of questions:
1. Background and Career
2. Getting Elected to the European Parliament
3. 2009 Electoral Campaign
4. Representation and Contacts
5. Legislative Behaviour
6. General Political Attitudes
7. Views on EU Politics
The research for the 2010 survey was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom, The survey was conducted for EPRG by Ipsos-MORI in London, which is an independent polling agency with extensive experience of web-based surveys. Ipsos-MORI designed the website , and we translated the questionnaire into all the official languages of the EU. The e-mail inviting the MEPs to complete the survey (which we sent out in the language of each MEP) included a message from the President of the European Parliament (Jerzy Buzek) encouraging the MEP to complete the survey. We sent three follow-up e-mails.
Information about the response rate and the sample of the 2010 survey compared to the 2000 and 2006 surveys can be found in one of the spreadsheets in the Excel "integrated datafile" (see below).
The following files are available for download:
The Questionnaires
The Datasets
When using these data please cite the data as follows:
"David Farrell, Simon Hix and Roger Scully (2011) 'EPRG MEP Survey Dataset: 2011 Release', http://www2.lse.ac.uk/government/research/resgroups/EPRG/MEPsurveyData.aspx|"
We have also written a research paper which analyses the main determinants of MEPs' attitudes on EU policies, as expressed in the 2010 survey, such as their personal left-right and pro-/anti-EU positions, their political party affiliations, and their member state affiliations:
Simon Hix, Roger Scully and David Farrell (2011) 'National or European Parliamentarians? Evidence from a New Survey of the Members of the European Parliament'.|
Data from Bowler-Farrell Survey of the 1989-94 EP
In addition to the recent EPRG surveys, here are the dataset from the survey of the MEPs in the 1989-94 EP by Shaun Bowler and David Farrell. We have not been able to find a codebook for the data, but the definitions and coding are self-explanatory for most of the variables:
If you use these data please cite the following paper:
Shaun Bowler and David Farrell (1993) "Legislator Shirking and Voter Monitoring: Impacts of European Parliament Electoral Systems upon Legislator-Voter Relationships", Journal of Common Market Studies 31(1) 45-70.
People who have used the EPRG MEP survey data for research and/or teaching
Academics, researchers and students from 100 institutions in 22 counties have requested the data from our MEP surveys, as follows:
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Aarhus University, Denmark
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Amnesty International, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium
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Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium
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Copenhagen Business School Denmark
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Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary
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Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA
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Dublin City University, Ireland
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Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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European University Institute, Florence, Italy
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Free University, Berlin, Germany
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Free University Brussels (ULB), Belgium
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Free University Brussels (VU), Belgium
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Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
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Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg, Germany
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Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
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Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Seoul, South Korea
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Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po), Paris, France
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International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Stockholm, Sweden
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Istanbul University, Turkey
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Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
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Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MA, USA
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Keele University, UK
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Kingston University, London, UK
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Leiden University, The Netherlands
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London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
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Meliksah University, Kayseri Turkey
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Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA, USA
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Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA
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Okayama University, Japan
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Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK
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Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
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RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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Seoul National University, South Korea
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Socialist Group in the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
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Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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University College Dublin, Ireland
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University of Aberdeen, UK
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University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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University of Antwerp, Belgium
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University of Bonn, Germany
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University of Bristol, UK
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University of California, Berkeley, USA
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University of California, San Diego, USA
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University of Constance, Germany
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University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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University of Erlangen, Nuremberg, Germany
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University of Essex, UK
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University of Exeter, UK
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University of Florence, Italy
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University of Freiburg, Germany
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University of Geneva, Switzerland
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University of Genova, Italy
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University of Ghent, Belgium
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University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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University of Heidelberg, Germany
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University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
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University of Leicester, UK
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University of Limerick, Ireland
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University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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University of Malta
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University of Manchester, UK
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University of Mannheim, Germany
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
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University of Nottingham, UK
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University of Oldenburg, Germany
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University of Oxford, UK
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University of Oslo, Norway
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University of Pavia, Italy
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University of Pisa, Italy
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University of Pittsburgh, USA
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University of Reading, UK
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University of Rochester, NY, USA
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University of Salford, UK
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University of Sheffield, UK
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University of Siena, Italy
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University of Southern Denmark
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University of Stockholm, Sweden
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University of Sussex, UK
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University of Tampere, Finland
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University of Tartu, Finland
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University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
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University of Trier, Germany
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University of Tübingen, Germany
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University of Turin, Italy
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University of Vienna, Austria
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University of Wales at Aberystwyth, UK
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University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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University of Zurich, Switzerland
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University College Dublin, Ireland
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University College London, UK
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Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin, Germany
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