UK Public and Parliamentary Survey on Foreign Aid Misuse

UK survey and experimental data from 2,205 citizens and 117 parliamentarians investigating support for foreign aid. The data was collected by Bernhard Reinsberg and is hosted on Harvard Dataverse. It examines how information about aid misuse affects opinions among both the public and political elites.

Use Cases

• Analyzing public backlash to foreign aid scandals based on survey and experimental data.
• Comparing elite versus public opinion shifts based on data from parliamentarians and citizens.
• Studying spillover effects of aid scandals to other recipient countries based on described findings.
• Modeling the impact of political responses on public support based on the experimental framework.

Strengths

• Includes a representative sample of 2,205 UK citizens.
• Contains a specialized sample of 117 UK parliamentarians.
• Data supports experimental analysis of opinion change.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Geographic scope is limited to the United Kingdom.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Original survey data and experiments.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-31 22:06:56; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom