American National Election Studies: Evaluations of Government and Society Study 1 (EGSS 1), 2010-2012 Segura, Gary Jackman, Simon Hutchings, Vincent American National Election Studies Afghanistan War congressional elections congressional elections (US House) congressional elections (US Senate) discrimination federal government federal income tax gubernatorial elections health care reform national economy Obama, Barack Palin, Sarah political attitudes public opinion race relations racial discrimination religious attitudes sexism stem cell research Tea Party movement terrorism United States House of Representatives voter attitudes voter expectations voters voting behavior TPDRC.I RCMD.X ICPSR.XIV.A.2.a The American National Election Studies: Evaluations of Government and Society Study 1 (EGSS 1), 2010-2012, is a series of relatively small, short, cross-sectional studies of the American electorate. Its chief aims are to measure public opinion well in advance of the 2012 election and to pilot test new instrumentation. Survey questions for the EGSS mainly come from the public proposal process on the American National Election Studies Online Commons. Topics include vote choice, Tea Party support, interest in politics, attitudes toward political parties, candidates, and Obama, political participation and knowledge, tax policy, racial attitudes, and the war in Afghanistan. Data collection is on the Internet using nationally representative probability samples. EGSS is not a panel design; different respondents complete each survey. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, education, employment status, occupation, household income, household size, household type, marital status, religious preferences, religiosity, political party affiliation, political philosophy, and whether respondent is a citizen of the United States. 2012-03-19 survey data 32701 10.3886/ICPSR32701.v1 United States 2010-10 ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).