Country           Country
epelec            Turnout in the EP elections
epyea             Year of the EP elections
npelec            Turnout in previous national parlimentary elections
npyear            Year of the previous nat. parl. elections
concurr           1=other elections were held simultanously with the EP elections
differen          epelec-npelec
italcomp          dummy for Italy pre 1993 (i.e. voting compulsory)
list              1=strict party lists are used
compulso          1=voting is compulsory
restday           1=elections held during weekend
seats             number of seats in the EP
seattot           total number of seats in the EP
seatshar          % of seats in the EP
firsttime         first EP elections in the country
arrival           first EP elections in the new member countries
lseatsha          ln(seatshar)
y1999             1999 dummy
lnep              logit transformation of epelec
lnnp              logit transformation of npelec
lndiff            lnep-lnnp
rest of the variables are country dummies