24,916 rated or chosen profiles from 4,157 respondents, in up to 4 tasks of 2 profiles varying on 9 attributes.

About this table

Description	Class-profile conjoint: 4,157 UK online panel respondents each rated up to 4 tasks of two hypothetical people described by up to nine attributes (occupation, housing, parents' occupation, region, political office, education, gender, age, partner's occupation); outcomes are the person's class (1-5) and the chance of becoming a successful MP (0-10).
Reference	Devine, D., Turnbull-Dugarte, S. J., & Ryan, M. (2025). Success denied: Social class and perceptions of political success. Legislative Studies Quarterly.
DOI	10.1111/lsq.70024
Licence	CC0 1.0
Source data	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ILIYPE

Notes

Conjoint table (irw_conjoint_2). Two people rated per task, no choice and no opt-out; rating = chance of being a successful MP candidate, 0-10 (group 2 only; 'not sure' = NA, 2,828 of 12,500 profile ratings), rating_class = rated on a scale from working class (1) to upper class (5), both groups. Group 1 saw a ninth attribute, political office; for group 2 it is '(not shown)'. Attribute order randomized per respondent (string kept as trial_attr_order). Survey weight kept. N = 4,157 respondents (paper's analysis sample = group 2, 2,084).

These notes describe the source data, which the IRW reproduces as released. All notes are listed on the Data Notes page.

Design

Topic	social identity interpersonal
A profile represents	person
Country	GB
Language shown	en
Language of stored levels	en
Randomization restrictions	unknown
Task order	recorded in the deposit
Profile position	recorded in the deposit

Outcomes:

rating	Imagine these people decide to run to be a Member of Parliament in Westminster. Thinking of these attributes, what do you think the chances of them being successful are? [rating, 0 (lowest chance) to 10 (highest chance)]
rating_class	Thinking about these two profiles, please rate them on a scale from working class to upper class. [rating, 1 (Working class) to 5 (Upper class)]

Columns

attr_ageattr_educationattr_genderattr_housingattr_occupationattr_parents_occupationattr_partner_occupationattr_political_officeattr_regioncov_agecov_educationcov_gendercov_left_rightcov_social_gradecov_survey_weightcov_vote_ge2019idprofileratingrating_classtasktrial_attr_ordertrial_group

The layout (one row per respondent, task and profile; choice/rating outcomes; attr_ columns holding each attribute level as displayed) is defined in the IRW conjoint standard. What the outcomes asked is under Design above.

Get the data

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Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("devine_2025_class_political_success", source = "conj")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("devine_2025_class_political_success", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Devine_2025, title={Success Denied: Social Class and Perceptions of Political Success}, volume={50}, ISSN={1939-9162}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lsq.70024}, DOI={10.1111/lsq.70024}, number={4}, journal={Legislative Studies Quarterly}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Devine, Daniel and Turnbull‐Dugarte, Stuart J. and Ryan, Matt}, year={2025}, month=July }

Version and provenance

IRW version	v584
Redivis dataset	irw_conjoint_2 v1.4
Redivis dataset DOI	10.57761/hk97-wv30
Manifest pin for this IRW version	v1.4
Metadata source	irw_meta v44.0

Respondents	4,157
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)	24,916
Tasks per respondent (most)	4
Profiles per task	2
Attributes	9

devine_2025_class_political_success