Description & Citation--Study No. 2936

• Bibliographic Description
• Scope of Study
• Methodology
• Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

02936

American National Election Study: 2000 Pilot Study

Sapiro, Virginia, National Election Studies

Rosenstone, Steven J., National Election Studies

National Election Studies, University of Michigan. Center for Political Studies

Russell Sage Foundation (82-00-01)

Sapiro, Virginia, Steven J. Rosenstone, and the National Election Studies. AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY: 2000 PILOT STUDY. 2nd ICPSR version. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies [producer], 2003. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02936.v2

American National Election Study (ANES) Series

Scope of Study

This brief special-topic Pilot study focused on a single general topic, trust. Respondents were asked for their opinions on the honesty, respectfulness, courteousness, and general trustworthiness of the neighbors in their communities, their colleagues at work, and politicians. Questions included items on respondents' membership in community organizations and attendance at meetings, whether the respondents worked cooperatively with others on community issues, and whether they had ever contacted government officials regarding community concerns. Politicians were evaluated as to their respect for the citizenry and for their opponents, whether they made campaign promises that they did not intend to keep, and whether politicians would pay more attention to people like the respondent if elections were held more often. One section of the questionnaire asked respondents to gauge how participating in certain activities (attending religious services, following public affairs, voting) and having certain opinions (in favor of further integrating public schools, increasing Social Security spending, instituting term limits for Congress) would shape other people's impressions of them. Demographic variables include gender, race, employment status, and length of residency in the community.

attitudes, community involvement, government performance, national elections, neighbors, political efficacy, political issues, political participation, politicians, public approval, public opinion, social networks, social values, trust (psychology), trust in government, voter expectations, voting behavior

United States

• 2000

• 2000-04-03--2000-05-14

United States citizens of voting age residing in housing units other than on military reservations in the 48 coterminous states.

survey data

(1) Pilot study respondents were previously interviewed as part of the AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1998: POST-ELECTION SURVEY (ICPSR 2684). The 2000 Pilot study includes all variables from the 1998 interview. (2) The SAS transport file was created using the SAS CPORT procedure. (3) The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

Methodology

The sample for the 2000 Pilot comprised a selection of cases from the 1998 NES Post-Election study. The 2000 Pilot selection procedure first grouped all 1998 respondents according to Low, Low-Medium, Medium, Medium-High, or High level of political knowledge and interest (PKI). Then, within each group of cases, those respondents for whom current telephone-contact information was not known were removed, and a predetermined number of the remaining respondents in each group was randomly selected for the Pilot sample.

telephone interviews

Access and Availability

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

2000-08-28

• 2003-12-11 A revised version of the data file containing additional variables from open-end questions is now available.