Canadian Opinion Research Archive

The Canadian Election Study (CES)

All Canadian Election Studies are avaiable for online searching and data analysis through the CORA Nesstar server. (To jump to the CES online analysis of the CES, click here.) In addition, CORA archives and provide access to the individual-level data files from every Canadian Election Study since 1965. These are listed below, with links to downloadable data (zipped) in both SPSS and STATA formats.

Information on the current Canadian Election Study, past datasets and publications, is available at ces-eec.org.

[Note: All survey questionnaires are stored alongside methodological information on the CORA server. To access those questionnaires directly (rather than search questions on the Nesstar server) click on the appropriate 'Documentation' button below. In the new window that opens, page to the bottom. Questionnaires are available in pdf there.]

Data Files & Documentation

2008. (Investigators: Elisabeth Gidengil, Joanna Everitt, Patrick Fournier, Neil Nevitte)

2004-2006-2008 panel. (Investigators: Elisabeth Gidengil, Joanna Everitt, Patrick Fournier, Neil Nevitte)

2004-2006 panel. (Investigators: André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, Neil Nevitte, Patrick Fournier, Joanna Everitt)

2004. (Investigators: André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, Neil Nevitte, Patrick Fournier, Joanna Everitt)

2000. (Investigators: André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, Richard Nadeau, Neil Nevitte)

1997. (Investigators: André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, Richard Nadeau, Neil Nevitte)

1993. (Investigators: Richard Johnston, André Blais, Henry Brady, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Neil Nevitte)

1988. (Investigators: Richard Johnston, André Blais, Henry E. Brady and Jean Crête)

1984. (Investigators: R.D. Lambert, S.D. Brown, J.E. Curtis, B.J. Kay and J.M. Wilson)

1974-1979-1980 panel. (Investigators: Harold Clark, Jane Jenson, Lawrence LeDuc, Jon Pammett)

1972. (Market Opinion Research)

1968. (Principle Investigator: John Meisel)

1965. (Investigators: Philip Converse, John Meisel, Maurice Pinard, Peter Regenstreif, Mildred Schwartz)