Left-Right / Liberal-Conservative Political Self-Placement.

L-R self-placement

What it measures

Self-reported political ideology on a single bipolar dimension (left vs right, or liberal vs conservative)

Length and format

1 (single item; sometimes paired with economic + social ideology items). single 0-10 (ESS), 1-7 / 1-10, or labelled liberal-conservative response (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

All major survey languages; effectively universal

Normative data

Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.

Licence

public-domain / open

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Reference

European Social Survey core questionnaire (lrscale item). See also Jost (2006), American Psychologist, 61(7), on ideology measurement.