Data-Driven Learning Guide

printer-friendly version
(includes answers)

Attitudinal Stability on Short- and Long-term Issues: A Data-Driven Learning Guide

Interpretation & Summary

Think about your answers to the application questions before you click through the interpretation guide for help in answering them.

Ideological Identification

How stable are the ideology responses? Is this the result you would expect for ideological identification?

Government Spending and Services

Are opinions on government spending and services stable between the pre-election survey and the post election survey? Is this what you expected, given it's centrality to elections?

Interventionism

How stable are opinions on government interventionism between the pre-election survey and the post-election survey? Is this what you expected given the issue's novelty in the political arena?

Education and Attitudinal Stability

Do respondents with higher levels of education have more stable ideological attitudes than those with lower levels of education?

Do respondents with higher levels of education have more stable attitudes about government spending than those with lower levels of education?

Do respondents with higher levels of education have more stable attitudes about government interventionism than those with lower levels of education?

View Interpretation Guide


CITATION: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Attitudinal Stability on Short- and Long-term Issues: A Data-Driven Learning Guide. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-04-16. Doi:10.3886/attitudinalstability

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.