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Description & Citation--Study No. 8475

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:8475
 
Title:American National Election Studies Cumulative Data File, 1948-2004
 
Principal Investigator(s):Virginia Sapiro, University of Michigan. Center for Political Studies
 
  Steven J. Rosenstone, University of Michigan. Center for Political Studies
 
  National Election Studies
 
Series:American National Election Study (ANES) Series
 
Funding Agency:National Science Foundation
 
Grant Number:SBR-9707741, SBR-9317631, SES-9209410, SES-9009379, SES-8808361, SES-8341310, SES-8207580, and SOC77-08885
 
Bibliographic Citation:Sapiro, Virginia, Steven J. Rosenstone, and the National Election Studies. AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDIES CUMULATIVE DATA FILE, 1948-2004 [Computer file]. ICPSR08475-v13. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies [producer], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-09-25.
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This collection pools common variables from each of the biennial National Election Studies conducted since 1948. The election studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds, enduring political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on questions of public policy, and participation in political life. The data provided in this cumulative file include a series of demographic variables and measures of social structure, partisanship, candidate evaluation, retrospective and incumbent presidential evaluation, public opinion, ideological support for the political system, mass media usage, and equalitarianism and post-materialism. Additional items provide measures of political activity, participation, and involvement, and voting behavior and registration (including results of vote validation efforts). In 2001, corrections were made to variables VCF0902, VCF0904, and VCF0905.
 
Subject Term(s):Bush Administration (1989-1993), Bush Administration (George W., 2001- ), candidates, Clinton Administration (1993-2001), congressional elections, domestic policy, economic conditions, Eisenhower Administration (1953-1961), Ford Administration (1974-1977), foreign policy, government performance, Johnson Administration (1963-1969), Kennedy Administration (1961-1963), media use, national elections, Nixon Administration (1969-1974), political affiliation, political attitudes, political campaigns, political efficacy, political history, political issues, political participation, presidential administrations, presidential elections, public approval, public opinion, public policy, Reagan Administration (1981-1989), social networks, social values, sources of information, special interest groups, Truman Administration (1945-1953), trust in government, voter expectations, voter history, voting behavior
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1948 - 2004
 
Date(s) of Collection:1948 - 2004
 
Universe:Cases from the AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDIES (ANES) Series.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:This file contains only a subset of the variables from the entire American National Election Studies series. Variables selected for inclusion were those most central to the research program of the election studies and which appeared in at least three of the surveys. Variables have been recoded to be consistent across the time span.
 

Methodology

Sample:See sampling information from the individual studies in the AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDIES (ANES) SERIES (1948-2002).
 
Data Source:Data files from the American National Election Studies series.
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1986-04-28
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2007-09-25.
 
  2007-09-25 - Data for 2004 have been added. The number of variables has increased from 750 to 950. The codebook is now available as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
 
  2004-12-08 - Data for 2002 have been added, and the data are available in ASCII with SAS, SPSS, and Stata data definition statements, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata data file formats. The codebook is now available as a PDF file.
 
  2002-05-31 - Data for 2000 have been added, and the data are available in ASCII, SAS transport, and SPSS portable file formats. The number of variables has increased from 635 to 752. The codebook is now available as a PDF file.
 

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