Finally, we may wish to look at interactions between individual and aggregate explanatory variables.
In
this example we can look at the interaction between a person's age and the amount of long term
unemployment in the country in which they live: - this enables us to ask the
question 'is there any evidence that age relates to the change of voting differently in countries
with
high long-term unemployment compared to countries with low long-term unemployment?'. We could also
look
at other kinds of relationship with this model framework e.g. include an individual level
explanatory
variable indicating whether or not someone is unemployed and interact this with long term
unemployment
in the model to assess whether unemployed people in countries with high long-term unemployment are
more
or less likely to vote than in coutries with unemployed people in low long-term unemployment.