Description

A crosswalk linking the party codes used for the vote intention variables in the European Social Survey to their corresponding Partyfacts ID. This allows you to merge in information on these parties from other datasets, such as ParlGov, the Manifesto Project, and the Chapel Hill experty surveys.

This crosswalk is based on the original ESS-Partyfacts dataset, but has been updated to include the codes from ESS Round 8 (2016) and Round 9 (2018).

If you find any errors in the crosswalk, please let me know via email or submit a PR.

Codebook

Variable	Description
cntry	2 letter country abbreviation
essround	ESS Round (1-9)
variable	Name of the ESS vote intention variable (country-round specific)
ess_id	ESS numeric party codes (country-round specific)
party	Party name
partyfacts_id	Partyfacts numeric party code
partyfacts_name	Partyfacts abbreviated party name
original_partyfacts	Indicator for whether data comes from original Partyfacts dataset (=1) or was added by me (=0).

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Ryohei Mogi for updating the crosswalk (see ess-partyfacts-extended-added.csv) to include mappings for Germany and a few other country-round pairs that were missing!