Data

The SOM projects are keen to share data with the scientific community.

You can find all the data released in the Dataverse of the SOM core project, where you can download all the data produced by the core project in various formats and undertake limited analysis on-line:

• data on immigration-related demographics 1995-2009

• data on the legal and policy situation 1995-2004

• data on the political opportunity structures (POS) 1995-2009, country level

• data on the political opportunity structures (POS) 1995-2009, party level

• data from the claims analysis (media analysis) 1995-2009

Data from the Italian project are available separately on Dataverse

Data from the Portuguese project are available separately on Zenodo

A preview of the NCCR on the move SOM update to 2018 is available on Zenodo

You can also find instructions for data collection and our codebook for the media analysis. The instructions for data on the political opportunity structure (POS), and the codebook are available as working papers (Working Paper 1 and Working Paper 2 respectively). The instructions for the demographics of immigration are attached here.

1. Morales, L. (2011) Demographics of Immigration: Guidelines for Data Collection

Attached are also files we used during data collection:

• an Excel spreadsheet to collect the POS data

• an Excel spreadsheet to code party manifestos manually (sentence by sentence, choose code from drop down menu)

• an Excel spreadsheet as a checklist for coding party manifestos

• instructions on coding party manifestos (using Yoshikoder to select bits that are about immigration; manual coding; check list, see Ruedin (2013) for additional information)

• an Excel spreadsheet to collect data on the demographics of immigration

• instructions on article selection for the media study

It should go without saying that these were internal documents and have not undergone significant polishing. If there is anything missing, please do get in touch.