2010 BES Face to Face Cross-Section.

The British Election Study, 2010: Campaign Internet Data comprises a large three-wave campaign internet panel survey, with a baseline pre-campaign wave, a sample of respondents re-contacted each day during the campaign, and all respondents interviewed in a post-election wave. For further information see the documentation and the BES 2009-2010 website.

The 2010 BES Face-to-Face Survey is held under SN 7529, and the Continuous Monitoring Survey under SN 7531.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The British Election Study, 2010: Face-to-Face Survey comprises the cross-section surveys conducted before and after the 2010 general election. The four major objectives of the BES 2010 as set out in the ESRC's Specification, and addressed in the project were to: explain the outcome of the General Election; determine why voters choose one party rather than another; understand why some people vote and others do not; and examine the effects of the election on British politics more generally. To meet these objectives, the 2010 BES conducted representative national surveys of the British electorate which included: a two-wave national probability face-to-face panel survey conducted before and after the election campaign. The post-election survey had a 'top-up' sample to correct for sample attrition and Scottish and Welsh booster samples;a large three-wave Campaign Internet Panel Survey (SN 7531), with a baseline pre-campaign survey, a sample of respondents re-contacted each day during the campaign, and all respondents interviewed in a post-election survey; and a Continuous Monitoring Internet Survey (CMS) (SN 7530) of a national cross-section each month for 24 months (July 2008-Dec 2010).For further information see the documentation and the BES 2009-2010 website. Main Topics: Topics covered within the pre- and post-election surveys included electoral issues, party identification and support, party positions on taxation and expenditure, voting intentions and behaviour, opinions on party leaders, trust in British institutions, contact with local politicians, attitudes to the European Union, attitudes to war, social trust, beliefs and value, social and political attitudes, and demographic characteristics. Multi-stage stratified random sample See documentation for details. Face-to-face interview Telephone interview Self-completion Internet survey

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The British Election Study Nine-Wave Panel Survey, 2005-2010 contains panel data from nine surveys conducted between the 2005 and 2010 general elections.

The nine waves were collected as follows: three waves in 2005, conducted before the election campaign, during the campaign and post-election; one wave conducted in 2006, one in 2008 and one in 2009; and three waves conducted in 2010, before the election campaign, during the campaign and post-election.

Further information is available from the BES Panel 2005-2010 webpage and the ESRC Performance Politics: The Dynamics of Political Support in Britain award webpage.

For the second edition (August 2014) data from waves 7-9 were added to the study and the documentation updated accordingly.


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Topics covered included electoral issues, party identification and support, party positions on taxation and expenditure, voting intentions and behaviour, opinions on party leaders, trust in British institutions, contact with local politicians, attitudes to the European Union, attitudes to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, social trust, beliefs and value, social and political attitudes, and demographic characteristics.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. British Election Study Ethnic Minority Survey, 2010 is a distinct survey with a separate sample and fieldwork to that of the main BES. While the main BES survey is a source of robust data at the national level, it cannot provide substantial interview numbers for some subgroups. In particular it has not been possible to conduct a thorough investigation of the political views and behaviours of Britain's ethnic minority populations through the main survey alone. A boost of ethnic minority respondents was carried out as part of the 1997 BES (SN 3891) but nothing since that point. As a result of this the ESRC agreed to fund a survey of ethnic minorities to be conducted immediately after the 2010 general election. The primary focus was on the five main ethnic minority groups - people of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Black Caribbean and Black African background. However, the research was intended to be complementary to the main BES and a large number of items are shared between the two surveys to enable comparative analysis. Further information may be found on the ESRC British Election Study Ethnic Minority Survey award webpage.

British Election Study Ethnic Minority Survey, 2010 is a distinct survey with a separate sample and fieldwork to that of the main BES. While the main BES survey is a source of robust data at the national level, it cannot provide substantial interview numbers for some subgroups. In particular it has not been possible to conduct a thorough investigation of the political views and behaviours of Britain's ethnic minority populations through the main survey alone. A boost of ethnic minority respondents was carried out as part of the 1997 BES (SN 3891) but nothing since that point. As a result of this the ESRC agreed to fund a survey of ethnic minorities to be conducted immediately after the 2010 general election. The primary focus was on the five main ethnic minority groups - people of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Black Caribbean and Black African background. However, the research was intended to be complementary to the main BES and a large number of items are shared between the two surveys to enable comparative analysis.

Further information may be found on the ESRC British Election Study Ethnic Minority Survey award webpage.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The British Election Study Continuous Monitoring Survey, 2008-2010 comprises data from a continuous national cross-section survey conducted each month for 24 months (July 2008-Dec 2010). For further information see the documentation and the BES 2009-2010 website. The 2010 BES Face-to-Face Survey is held under SN 7529, and the Campaign Internet Panel Survey under SN 7530. Main Topics: Topics covered included electoral issues, party identification and support, party positions on taxation and expenditure, voting intentions and behaviour, opinions on party leaders, trust in British institutions, contact with local politicians, attitudes to the European Union, attitudes to war, social trust, beliefs and value, social and political attitudes, and demographic characteristics. Quota sample Internet survey

This dataset was created primarily to map and track socioeconomic and demographic variables from the US Census Bureau from year 1940 to year 2010, by decade, within the City of Baltimore's Mayor's Office of Information Technology (MOIT) year 2010 neighborhood boundaries. The socioeconomic and demographic variables include the percent White, percent African American, percent owner occupied homes, percent vacant homes, the percentage of age 25 and older people with a high school education or greater, and the percentage of age 25 and older people with a college education or greater. Percent White and percent African American are also provided for year 1930. Each of the the year 2010 neighborhood boundaries were also attributed with the 1937 Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) definition of neighborhoods via spatial overlay. HOLC rated neighborhoods as A, B, C, D or Undefined. HOLC categorized the perceived safety and risk of mortgage refinance lending in metropolitan areas using a hierarchical grading scale of A, B, C, and D. A and B areas were considered the safest areas for federal investment due to their newer housing as well as higher earning and racially homogenous households. In contrast, C and D graded areas were viewed to be in a state of inevitable decline, depreciation, and decay, and thus risky for federal investment, due to their older housing stock and racial and ethnic composition. This policy was inherently a racist practice. Places were graded based on who lived there; poor areas with people of color were labeled as lower and less-than. HOLC's 1937 neighborhoods do not cover the entire extent of the year 2010 neighborhood boundaries. The neighborhood boundaries were also augmented to include which of the year 2017 Housing Market Typology (HMT) the 2010 neighborhoods fall within. Finally, the neighborhood boundaries were also augmented to include tree canopy and tree canopy change year 2007 to year 2015.

The dataset contains the 153 indicators of the Fair and Sustainable Well-being of Puglia divided into the 12 thematic domains identified in the Istat framework. The indicators refer to the period 2010-2021 and always present a comparison with other territorial contexts. For all indicators there is a comparison with the total Italy and the South. The source of the data is Istat.

This LTER Remote Sensing spatial raster dataset consists of Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper image data for Baltimore Ecosystem Study, on 2010-12-09 (15:36:16.0350060Z). Data were collected by Landsat 5, row 33, path 15. Cloud cover was 20.74 percent. These are reference data from the USGS EROS archive, not data generated by Baltimore Ecosystem Study. This product was created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and contains Landsat data files in Geographic Tagged Image-File Format (GeoTIFF). NASA Landsat Program, 2009, Landsat TM LT50150332010343GNC01, LPGS_12.0.2, USGS, Sioux Falls, 2012-07-13T00:55:34Z.

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Background
The British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey series began in 1983. The series is designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal movements to complement large-scale government surveys that deal largely with facts and behaviour patterns, and the data on party political attitudes produced by opinion polls. One of the BSA's main purposes is to allow the monitoring of patterns of continuity and change, and the examination of the relative rates at which attitudes, in respect of a range of social issues, change over time. Some questions are asked regularly, others less often. Funding for BSA comes from a number of sources (including government departments, the Economic and Social Research Council and other research foundations), but the final responsibility for the coverage and wording of the annual questionnaires rests with NatCen Social Research (formerly Social and Community Planning Research). The BSA has been conducted every year since 1983, except in 1988 and 1992 when core funding was devoted to the British Election Study (BES).

Further information about the series and links to publications may be found on the NatCen Social Research British Social Attitudes webpage.

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Each year, the BSA interview questionnaire contains a number of 'core' questions, which are repeated in most years. In addition, a wide range of background and classificatory questions is included. The remainder of the questionnaire is devoted to a series of questions (modules) on a range of social, economic, political and moral issues - some are asked regularly, others less often. Cross-indexes of those questions asked more than once appear in the reports.
The BSA 2010 questionnaires included modules covering: attitudes to social welfare, education, health, transport, housing and politics. Version A of the self-completion questionnaire included questions about the environment (the 2010 ISSP module).

This dataset includes population estimates for eight focal sub-watersheds in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study based on the proportion of 2010 census blocks located within the watershed. These data can facilitate per capita calculations of watershed fluxes.

Il dataset contiene i 153 indicatori del Benessere Equo e Sostenibile della Puglia suddivisi nei 12 domini tematici individuati nel framework dell’Istat. Gli indicatori sono riferiti al periodo 2010-2021e presentano sempre un confronto con altri contesti territoriali. Per tutti gli indicatori è presente il confronto con il totale Italia e con il Mezzogiorno. La fonte dei dati è Istat

This LTER Remote Sensing spatial raster dataset consists of Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper image data for Baltimore Ecosystem Study, on 2010-01-23 (15:37:17.1650250Z). Data were collected by Landsat 5, row 33, path 15. Cloud cover was 0.24 percent. These are reference data from the USGS EROS archive, not data generated by Baltimore Ecosystem Study. This product was created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and contains Landsat data files in Geographic Tagged Image-File Format (GeoTIFF). NASA Landsat Program, 2009, Landsat TM LT50150332010023GNC01, LPGS_11.6.0, USGS, Sioux Falls, 2012-03-13T05:00:39Z.

This LTER Remote Sensing spatial raster dataset consists of Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper image data for Baltimore Ecosystem Study, on 2010-11-07 (15:36:14.4250940Z). Data were collected by Landsat 5, row 33, path 15. Cloud cover was 0.38 percent. These are reference data from the USGS EROS archive, not data generated by Baltimore Ecosystem Study. This product was created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and contains Landsat data files in Geographic Tagged Image-File Format (GeoTIFF). NASA Landsat Program, 2009, Landsat TM LT50150332010311EDC00, LPGS_12.0.0, USGS, Sioux Falls, 2012-03-28T11:41:18Z.

The sediments slurries were added with 200 kPaH2 and 10 mmol L**?1 bicarbonate. Results are presented as means and standard errors from duplicate tubes.

Der Datensatz enthält die 153 Indikatoren für das gerechte und nachhaltige Wohlergehen Apuliens, die in die 12 Themenbereiche des Istat-Rahmens unterteilt sind. Die Indikatoren beziehen sich auf den Zeitraum 2010-2021 und stellen immer einen Vergleich mit anderen territorialen Kontexten dar. Für alle Indikatoren gibt es einen Vergleich mit dem gesamten Italien und dem Süden. Die Quelle der Daten ist Istat. Der Datensatz enthält die 153 Indikatoren für das gerechte und nachhaltige Wohlergehen Apuliens, die in die 12 Themenbereiche des Istat-Rahmens unterteilt sind. Die Indikatoren beziehen sich auf den Zeitraum 2010-2021 und stellen immer einen Vergleich mit anderen territorialen Kontexten dar. Für alle Indikatoren gibt es einen Vergleich mit dem gesamten Italien und dem Süden. Die Quelle der Daten ist Istat.

This LTER Remote Sensing spatial raster dataset consists of Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper image data for Baltimore Ecosystem Study, on 2010-04-29 (15:37:16.1820750Z). Data were collected by Landsat 5, row 33, path 15. Cloud cover was 0.04 percent. These are reference data from the USGS EROS archive, not data generated by Baltimore Ecosystem Study. This product was created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and contains Landsat data files in Geographic Tagged Image-File Format (GeoTIFF). NASA Landsat Program, 2009, Landsat TM LT50150332010119GNC01, LPGS_12.0.0, USGS, Sioux Falls, 2012-03-28T11:42:25Z.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.BackgroundThe British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey series began in 1983. The series is designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal movements to complement large-scale government surveys that deal largely with facts and behaviour patterns, and the data on party political attitudes produced by opinion polls. One of the BSA's main purposes is to allow the monitoring of patterns of continuity and change, and the examination of the relative rates at which attitudes, in respect of a range of social issues, change over time. Some questions are asked regularly, others less often. Funding for BSA comes from a number of sources (including government departments, the Economic and Social Research Council and other research foundations), but the final responsibility for the coverage and wording of the annual questionnaires rests with NatCen Social Research (formerly Social and Community Planning Research). The BSA has been conducted every year since 1983, except in 1988 and 1992 when core funding was devoted to the British Election Study (BES).Further information about the series and links to publications may be found on the NatCen Social Research British Social Attitudes webpage. Main Topics:Each year, the BSA interview questionnaire contains a number of 'core' questions, which are repeated in most years. In addition, a wide range of background and classificatory questions is included. The remainder of the questionnaire is devoted to a series of questions (modules) on a range of social, economic, political and moral issues - some are asked regularly, others less often. Cross-indexes of those questions asked more than once appear in the reports. The BSA 2010 questionnaires included modules covering: attitudes to social welfare, education, health, transport, housing and politics. Version A of the self-completion questionnaire included questions about the environment (the 2010 ISSP module). Multi-stage stratified random sample See documentation for each BSA year for full details. 2010 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT ADULTS AGE AGE DISCRIMINATION AIR TRANSPORT AIR TRAVEL ATTITUDES BICYCLES BOOKS BRITISH POLITICAL P... BROADBAND BUSES CARE OF DEPENDANTS CARS CENSORSHIP CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CHILD ABUSE CHILD BENEFITS CHILD CARE CHILD SAFETY CHILDREN CIVIL AND POLITICAL... CLASS CONFLICT CLIMATE CHANGE CONDITIONS OF EMPLO... CONSERVATIVE PARTY ... COUNSELLING CREDIT DEATH PENALTY DEBILITATIVE ILLNESS DECENTRALIZED GOVER... DECISION MAKING DENTAL EXAMINATIONS DENTISTS DISABILITIES DISABILITY DISCRIMI... DISABLED PERSONS DISCRIMINATION DRIVING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ELDERLY EMPLOYEES EMPLOYERS EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT HISTORY ENVIRONMENTAL AWARE... ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES EQUALITY BEFORE THE... ETHNIC GROUPS EXAMINATIONS FAMILIES FAMILY BENEFITS FAMILY MEMBERS FATHER S OCCUPATION FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES FLEXIBLE WORKING TIME FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT GENDER GENERAL PRACTITIONERS GOVERNMENT POLICY GOVERNMENT ROLE GRANDCHILDREN GRANDPARENTS HEALTH HEALTH CONSULTATIONS HEALTH SERVICES HOME OWNERSHIP HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT... HOSPITAL SERVICES HOSPITAL WAITING LISTS HOURS OF WORK HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLDS HOUSING TENURE HUMAN RIGHTS IMMIGRANTS IMMIGRATION INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INFIDELITY INSTITUTIONS INTERNET ACCESS INTERNET USE INTERPERSONAL TRUST JOB SECURITY JUDGMENTS LAW LABOUR PARTY GREAT ... LIFE SATISFACTION LIVING CONDITIONS LOW PAY MARITAL STATUS NATIONAL IDENTITY NATIONALITY NEWSPAPER READERSHIP NEWSPAPERS OCCUPATIONAL QUALIF... OCCUPATIONS ONE PARENT FAMILIES OVERTIME PART TIME EMPLOYMENT PARTNERSHIPS PERSONAL PASSENGERS POLITICAL ALLEGIANCE POLITICAL ATTITUDES POLITICAL INFLUENCE POLITICAL INTEREST POLITICIANS POPULATION DENSITY POVERTY PREJUDICE PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOLS PRIVATE EDUCATION PRIVATE SECTOR PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT QUALIFICATIONS QUALITY OF LIFE RACIAL PREJUDICE RAILWAY TRAVEL RATES OF PAY REDUNDANCY RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION RELIGIOUS ATTENDANCE RENTED ACCOMMODATION RETIREMENT RETIREMENT AGE ROAD TAX ROAD TOLL CHARGES ROAD TRAFFIC ROAD TRAFFIC POLLUTION RURAL AREAS SATISFACTION SAVINGS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLS SELF EMPLOYED SICKNESS AND DISABI... SOCIAL ATTITUDES SOCIAL CLASS SOCIAL HOUSING SOCIAL INEQUALITY SOCIAL ISSUES SOCIAL SECURITY BEN... SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIAL SUPPORT SOCIAL WELFARE PHIL... SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS SPEED LIMITS SPOUSE S ECONOMIC A... SPOUSE S EMPLOYMENT SPOUSE S OCCUPATION SPOUSES STANDARD OF LIVING STATE HEALTH SERVICES STATE RESPONSIBILITY STATE SCHOOLS SUPERVISORY STATUS Social behaviour an... Social conditions a... TAX RELIEF TAXATION TELEPHONES TELEVISION VIEWING TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP TRADE UNIONS TRAFFIC CALMING MEA... TRAFFIC OFFENCES TRAVEL TRUST TRUST IN GOVERNMENT UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS URBAN AREAS WAGES WORKERS PARTICIPATION WORKING CONDITIONS WORKING MOTHERS WORKPLACE

The Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) has established a network of long-term permanent biogeochemical study plots. These plots will provide long-term data on vegetation, soil and hydrologic processes in the key ecosystem types within the urban ecosystem. The current network of study plots includes eight forest plots, chosen to represent the range of forest conditions in the area, and four grass plots. These plots are complemented by a network of 200 less intensive study plots located across the Baltimore metropolitan area. Plots are currently instrumented with lysimeters (drainage and tension) to sample soil solution chemistry, time domain reflectometry probes to measure soil moisture, dataloggers to measure and record soil temperature and trace gas flux chambers to measure the flux of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane from soil to the atmosphere. Measurements of in situ nitrogen mineralization, nitrification and denitrification were made at approximately monthly intervals from Fall 1998 - Fall 2000. Detailed vegetation characterization (all layers) was done in summer 1998. Data from these plots has been published in Groffman et al. (2006, 2009) and Groffman and Pouyat (2009). In November of 1998 four rural, forested plots were established at Oregon Ridge Park in Baltimore County northeast of the Gwynns Falls Watershed. Oregon Ridge Park contains Pond Branch, the forested reference watershed for BES. Two of these four plots are located on the top of a slope; the other two are located midway up the slope. In June of 2010 measurements at the mid-slope sites on Pond Branch were discontinued. Monuments and equipment remain at the two plots. These plots were replaced with two lowland riparian plots; Oregon upper riparian and Oregon lower riparian. Each riparian sites has four 5 cm by 1-2.5 meter depth slotted wells laid perpendicular to the stream, four tension lysimeters at 10 cm depth, five time domain reflectometry probes, and four trace gas flux chambers in the two dominant microtopographic features of the riparian zones - high spots (hummocks) and low spots (hollows). Four urban, forested plots were established in November 1998, two at Leakin Park and two adjacent to Hillsdale Park in west Baltimore City in the Gwynns Falls. One of the plots in Hillsdale Park was abandoned in 2004 due to continued vandalism. In May 1999 two grass, lawn plots were established at McDonogh School in Baltimore County west of the city in the Gwynns Falls. One of these plots is an extremely low intensity management area (mowed once or twice a year) and one is in a low intensity management area (frequent mowing, no fertilizer or herbicide use). In 2009, the McDonogh plots were abandoned due to management changes at the school. Two grass lawn plots were established on the campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in fall 2000. One of these plots is in a medium intensity management area (frequent mowing, moderate applications of fertilizer and herbicides) and one is in a high intensity management area (frequent mowing, high applications of fertilizer and herbicides). Literature Cited Bowden R, Steudler P, Melillo J and Aber J. 1990. Annual nitrous oxide fluxes from temperate forest soils in the northeastern United States. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos. 95, 13997 14005. Driscoll CT, Fuller RD and Simone DM (1988) Longitudinal variations in trace metal concentrations in a northern forested ecosystem. J. Environ. Qual. 17: 101-107 Goldman, M. B., P. M. Groffman, R. V. Pouyat, M. J. McDonnell, and S. T. A. Pickett. 1995. CH4 uptake and N availability in forest soils along an urban to rural gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 27:281-286. Groffman PM, Holland E, Myrold DD, Robertson GP and Zou X (1999) Denitrification. In: Robertson GP, Bledsoe CS, Coleman DC and Sollins P (Eds) Standard Soil Methods for Long Term Ecological Research. (pp 272-290). Oxford University Press, New York Groffman PM, Pouyat RV, Cadenasso ML, Zipperer WC, Szlavecz K, Yesilonis IC,. Band LE and Brush GS. 2006. Land use context and natural soil controls on plant community composition and soil nitrogen and carbon dynamics in urban and rural forests. Forest Ecology and Management 236:177-192. Groffman, P.M., C.O. Williams, R.V. Pouyat, L.E. Band and I.C. Yesilonis. 2009. Nitrate leaching and nitrous oxide flux in urban forests and grasslands. Journal of Environmental Quality 38:1848-1860. Groffman, P.M. and R.V. Pouyat. 2009. Methane uptake in urban forests and lawns. Environmental Science and Technology 43:5229-5235. DOI: 10.1021/es803720h. 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