Demography vs. political preference data sources

Question

I am looking for data on the relationship between demography (mainly indicators of knowledge such as formal education, rural/urban residency, salary) and political preference, preferably in the UK or the EU as a whole.

My aim is to demonstrate the correlation between these two and model potential election outcomes should the suffrage be limited.

Could you please suggest any?

Answer 1

Two resources you might consider are:

• The European Social Survey
• The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems

Answer 2

Check this collection of static and real-time data sets: http://www.oecd.org/statistics. Most indicators should be on a per-country (including per-EU-country) basis.

Also, see:

• http://data.worldbank.org and http://data.worldbank.org/products/wdi (for R there is WDI package)
• http://data.un.org/DataMartInfo.aspx
• http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory

Answer 3

The European Values Study provides this information. The microdata is freely available.

You can consider it as a substitute to the European Social Survey mentioned in this same thread. Or as a complement, if you want to check the robustness of your findings.