Previous analyses of the 2016 Brexit referendum used region-level data or small samples based on polling data. The …-level data on thousands of respondents in Understanding Society, the UK’s largest household survey, which includes the EU … referendum question. We find that voting Leave is associated with older age, white ethnicity, low educational attainment …

Previous analyses of the 2016 Brexit referendum used region-level data or small samples based on polling data. The …-level data on thousands of respondents in Understanding Society, the UK's largest household survey, which includes the EU … referendum question. We find that voting Leave is associated with older age, white ethnicity, low educational attainment …

provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum vote. Instead, we find that fundamental characteristics of the … referendum result. …

On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (so-called 'Brexit'). This paper uses newly … against Brexit. Two key findings emerge. First, unhappy feelings contributed to Brexit. However, contrary to commonly heard … feelings about his or her own financial situation. Second, despite some commentators' guesses, Brexit was not caused by old …

provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum vote. Instead, we find that fundamental characteristics of the … referendum result …

Using estimates of support for Leave across UK local authority areas constructed from a comprehensive 20,000 strong … changed significantly since the 2016 EU referendum. A lot of area characteristics, many of which were previously associated …, carried by protest voters, who used the EU referendum to voice their discontent with domestic social and economic developments …

provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum vote. Instead, we find that fundamental characteristics of the … referendum result. …