All rounds of the ESS have been updated in a major upgrade of the ESS data and documentation 01.12.16. For an overview of the changes in variables and country data, see version notes for ESS1, ESS2, ESS3, ESS4, ESS5, ESS6 and ESS7 respectively.

The ESS Cumulative Data Wizard, where users can customise their own subsets of data in different formats, will be updated with all seven rounds of the ESS within the next ten days.

Four political parties have been assigned incorrect numerical values in the Dutch political party variables. As a consequence, the parties listed in the labels are incorrect for the following parties:

   Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA)
   Socialist Party (SP)
   Christian Union (CU)
   Green Left (GL)

The issue will be corrected in future editions of ESS7. See below for suggested temporary solution to the problem, based on a recoding of edition 2.0 of the ESS7 Integrated file in SPSS (in this example, stored locally in folder "ESS" on the C: drive):

GET FILE 'C:\ESS\ESS7e02.sav'.
RECODE prtvtfnl prtclenl (4=5) (5=4) (7=8) (8=7).
EXECUTE.

The first edition of interview time data (edition 1.0) for ESS round 7 was released on September 6th, 2016.

Edition 1.0 is available on the ESS7 - 2014 Data Download page and includes data from the 21 countries included in the second ESS7 data release.

A new edition of ESS7 integrated sample design data file (1.1) is now available for download in the ESS7 - 2014 Data Download section.

The new release is due to amendments made in variable PSU for Denmark and in variable PROB for Switzerland.

Edition 1.0 of the ESS7 Media claims data was published on the 29th of July 2016.

The first edition includes media claims for a total of 21 countries, including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

An integrated sample design data file (SDDF) was published 26th of July 2016 and is available in SAS, STATA and SPSS format, along with a PDF file describing the structure and use of the SDDF.

The file is available from the ESS7 - 2014 Data download section and edition 1.0 includes the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech, Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and Slovenia.

A file with corrected ANCTRY1 and ANCTRY2 variables has now been made available from the ESS7 Data Download page. In addition to correcting the previously alerted error in the Finnish ANCTRY1 and ANCTRY2 variables, corrections in ANCTRY1 and ANCTRY2 have been made for the following countries:
Denmark (ANCTRY1: 52 cases, ANCTRY2: 33 cases)
Germany (ANCTRY1: 2 cases, ANCTRY2: 1 case)
Ireland (ANCTRY1: 5 cases, ANCTRY2: 9 cases)
Norway (ANCTRY1: 54 cases, ANCTRY2: 18 cases)
Switzerland (ANCTRY1: 81 cases, ANCTRY2: 198 cases)

The variables will be corrected in future updates of the integrated ESS7 data file. In the meantime, we advise our users to update the data by replacing ANCTRY1 and ANCTRY2 in the ESS7 - integrated file, edition 2.0 with ANCTRY1 and ANCTRY2 in ESS7 - ancestry variables (ANCTRY1 ANCTRY2), edition 1.0 (for SPSS syntax example, see below. In this example, note that the data files are stored locally in folder "ESS" on the C: drive):

GET FILE "C:\ESS\ESS7e02.sav" /DROP anctry1 anctry2.
MATCH FILES
/FILE=*
/FILE=" C:\ESS\ESS7ANCe01.sav"
/BY cntry idno.
EXE.
SAVE OUT "C:\ESS\ESS7e02_Update.sav".

All respondents reporting category 12020 (Finnish speaking Finns) on ANCTRY1 (1901 cases) and ANCTRY2 (8 cases) have erroneously been coded to 12021 (Swedish speaking Finns) on these variables. This will be corrected in future editions of the integrated file. A file containing corrected variables will be made available shortly.

A new edition of ESS7 test data (2.1) is now available for download in the ESS7 - 2014 Data Download section.

Version 2.0 of the ESS7 test data contains duplicate records for all French respondents. These have been removed in edition 2.1.

A substantial number of respondents (N=336 [ALCWKDY] and N=81 [ALCWKND]) were erroneously assigned missing values rather than substantial code 0 on the harmonised alcohol consumption variables for Israel in the main data file. The correct Israeli data for these two variables is available in the integrated alcohol consumption data file. The variables for Israel will be corrected in future updates of the integrated ESS7 data file. In the meantime, we advise our users to update the data by replacing ALCWKDY and ALCWKND in the ESS7 - integrated file, edition 2.0 with ALCWKDY and ALCWKND in ESS7 - alcohol consumption variables, edition 2.0 (for SPSS syntax example, see below. In this example, note that the data files are stored locally in folder "ESS" on the C: drive):

GET FILE "C:\ESS\ESS7e02.sav" /DROP alcwkdy alcwknd.
MATCH FILES
/FILE=*
/FILE="C:\ESS\ESS7ALCe02.sav"
/BY cntry idno.
EXE.
SAVE OUT "C:\ESS\ESS7e02_Update.sav" /DROP e7_nd to e8_10si.