receives no "easyvote" booklet from the municipality
receives "easyvote" booklet from the municipality

dummy value indicating whether or not the respondent automatically receives the "easyvote" booklet by postal mail (requires that the respondent's municipality has subscribed to this service for the respondent's age range)

respondent's substantive participation status at the current ballot (blank votes count as 'not participated')

respondent's participation status regarding the federal elections of the current ballot (blank votes count as 'participated')

respondent's substantive participation status regarding the federal elections of the current ballot (blank votes count as 'not participated')

respondent's participation status regarding the cantonal elections of the current ballot (blank votes count as 'participated')

respondent's substantive participation status regarding the cantonal elections of the current ballot (blank votes count as 'not participated')

dummy value indicating whether or not the User-Agent string of the respondent's web browser corresponds to a mobile device (smartphone, tablet etc.; only online respondents)

respondent's latent expertise on the federal political system (based on a 2–3 parameter logistic Item Response Theory (IRT) model, also known as Birnbaum model, fed with passed_skill_question_1_federal, passed_skill_question_2_federal and passed_skill_question_3_federal)

respondent's latent expertise on the federal political system, measured in 5 discrete categories (based on latent_expertise_federal)

respondent's latent expertise on the cantonal political system (based on a 2–3 parameter logistic Item Response Theory (IRT) model, also known as Birnbaum model, fed with passed_skill_question_1_cantonal, passed_skill_question_2_cantonal and passed_skill_question_3_cantonal)

respondent's latent expertise on the cantonal political system, measured in 5 discrete categories (based on latent_expertise_cantonal)

respondent's latent expertise on the cantonal and federal political system together (based on a 2–3 parameter logistic Item Response Theory (IRT) model, also known as Birnbaum model, fed with passed_skill_question_1_federal, passed_skill_question_2_federal, passed_skill_question_3_federal, passed_skill_question_1_cantonal, passed_skill_question_2_cantonal and passed_skill_question_3_cantonal)

respondent's latent expertise on the cantonal and federal political system together, measured in 5 discrete categories (based on latent_expertise)