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Description & Citation--Study No. 39

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:39
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00039
 
Title:Canadian Census and Election Data, 1908-1968
 
Principal Investigator(s):Donald E. Blake
 
Bibliographic Citation:Blake, Donald E. CANADIAN CENSUS AND ELECTION DATA, 1908-1968 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. New Haven, CT: Dept. of Political Science [producer], 1971. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. doi:10.3886/ICPSR00039
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This data collection contains seven files of Canadian census and election data, each corresponding to a particular electoral period when the number of constituencies was fixed. The data files include returns from the federal elections of 1908 and 1911 and data from the 1911 Census (Part 1), the elections of 1917 and 1921 and the 1921 Census (Part 2), the elections of 1925, 1926, and 1930 (Part 3), the elections of 1935, 1940, and 1945 (Part 4), the election of 1949 and the 1951 Census (Part 5), the elections of 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963, and 1965 and the 1961 Census (Part 6), and the election of 1968 (Part 7). The election data include information on the total valid vote cast and the percentage of the total vote received by each of the major parties, including the Conservative, Liberal, Socialist, Labor, Independent, Progressive, CCF, Social Credit, NDP, and Creditiste parties, as well as a total for all other parties. The census data provide demographic information on religion, including Anglican, Baptist, Jewish, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, United Church, and other denominational sects, and ethnic origin, including British, French, German, Italian, Scandinavian, Russian, Polish, Asiatic, Native, and others, as well as information on age, education, occupation, and income from the 1961 Census.
 
Subject Term(s):Canada, census data, election returns, elections, national elections, political attitudes, political parties, voters, voting behavior
 
Geographic Coverage:Global
 
Time Period:1908 - 1968
 
Data Type:census data, and aggregate data
 
Data Collection Notes:The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
 

Methodology

Data Source:(1) CANADIAN PARLIAMENTARY GUIDE, (2) CANADA VOTES, (3) REPORT OF THE CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER, (4) CENSUS OF CANADA, 1911, 1921, and 1961, and (5) CENSUS OF CANADA, 1951
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1984-06-20
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-12.
 
  2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 8 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: 1911 Census, 1908 and 1911 Elections Data
  • DS2: 1921 Census, 1917 and 1921 Elections Data
  • DS3: 1925, 1926, and 1930 Elections Data
  • DS4: 1935, 1940, and 1945 Elections Data
  • DS5: 1951 Census and 1949 Election Data
  • DS6: 1961 Census, 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963, and 1965 Elections Data
  • DS7: 1968 Election
 

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