ÿþM i c r o s o f t P o w e r P o i n t

Making Complex Historical
Data Accessible by Means of
Internet and Metadata: an
Electoral Data Bank from the
Canton Ticino
Osservatorio della vita politica
(Ufficio di statistica)
Swiss Statistics Meeting, Lugano,
15.-17. November 2006
The manifold uses of electoral
statistics
• Electoral analysis
• Social analysis
• Fill the lack of
individual data
• Used in regression
models
• Territorial typologies
Swiss Statistics Meeting, Lugano,
15.-17. November 2006
Swiss electoral statistics in machinereadable form
• Federal elections
• Cantonal elections
Swiss Statistics Meeting, Lugano,
15.-17. November 2006
The aims of our data-bank
• Who is it for?
• How is it structured?
• What were our
criteria?
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User-friendly
Multilingual
Exhaustive
Historical
Swiss Statistics Meeting, Lugano,
15.-17. November 2006
The contents of the data-bank:
DATA
• Electorate
• Parties’ results
• Candidates’ results and their
characteristics
• Personal votes (panachage)
• Statistical indexes
Swiss Statistics Meeting, Lugano,
15.-17. November 2006
The contents of the data-bank:
METADATA
• Help files
• Guide to the results
• Electoral system
• Political parties
• Territorial units
• …
Swiss Statistics Meeting, Lugano,
15.-17. November 2006
The constuction of the data-bank
Swiss Statistics Meeting, Lugano,
15.-17. November 2006
The difficulties encountered
• The merging of
communes
• The integration of
multi-provenance data
• Evolutionary structure
• Updating
Swiss Statistics Meeting, Lugano,
15.-17. November 2006
Making Complex Historical Data
Accessible by Means of Internet and
Metadata: an Electoral Data Bank
from the Canton Ticino
Osservatorio della vita politica
(Ufficio di statistica)
http://www.sbt.ti.ch/elweb
Swiss Statistics Meeting, Lugano,
15.-17. November 2006