American National Election Series: 1972, 1974, 1976 (ICPSR 7607)

Version Date: Mar 21, 2000

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Principal Investigator(s):
University of Michigan. Center for Political Studies

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07607.v3

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Summary

This study is part of a time-series collection of national surveys fielded continuously since 1952. 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. This collection consists of a distinct panel across the three election waves, the cross-section samples associated with each election study, and a vote validation study. The panel component consists of a maximum of five interview points for each respondent (pre- and post-1972 election, post-1974 election, and pre- and post-1976 election) taken from the American National Election Studies of 1972 (ICPSR 7010), 1974 (ICPSR 7355), and 1976 (ICPSR 7381). The vote validation data were gathered in the spring and summer of 1977, through interviews with election registration officials and from examination of voting records of the respondents participating in these election studies. The collection also includes filter variables that allow for the retrieval of each of the distinct panel and cross-section samples.

Citation

University of Michigan. Center for Political Studies. American National Election Series:  1972, 1974, 1976. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000-03-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07607.v3

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Funding

National Science Foundation (GS-33956, GI-29904, GS-3322, MH19516-08), United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Mental Health

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1972 -- 1976

Date of Collection

1972 -- 1977

Data Collection Notes

  1. A total of 11 respondents who were "panel only" in the original 1976 cross-section study (AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION SERIES: 1972, 1974, 1976 [ICPSR 7381]) were corrected to "panel and cross section" in this data collection. Consequently, the frequency distribution for certain variables will differ slightly between the 1976 cross-section study and this version of the data.

  2. The codebook frequencies pertain to the 1972-1974-1976 Panel. Vote validation frequencies were generated using V764008 as a weight and filter.

  3. The variable breakdown by year is as follows: 720001-721112 are 1972 variables, 742001-742603 are 1974 variables, 763001-763969 are 1976 variables, 764001-764011 are cross-year variables, 765001-765073 are individual voter record variables from the 1976 vote validation study, 765101-765342 are election administration variables from the 1976 Vote Validation Study, and 765401-765417 are election items checklist variables from the 1976 Vote Validation Study.

  4. The SAS transport file was created using the SAS CPORT procedure.

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Sample

The data collection is a cross-section representative of persons 18 years of age or older as of November 7, 1972, who were living in private households in the coterminous United States.

Universe

All citizens of voting age residing in households in the coterminous United States.

Data Source

electoral records

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

1984-06-19

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • University of Michigan. Center for Political Studies. American National Election Series: 1972, 1974, 1976. ICPSR07607-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07607.v3

2000-03-21 The data for this study are now available in SAS transport and SPSS export formats in addition to the ASCII data file. Variables in the dataset have been renumbered to the following format: 2-digit (or 2-character) year prefix + 4 digits + [optional] 1-character suffix. In addition, the frequencies for panel respondents have been merged with the codebook file.

1984-06-19 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Performed consistency checks.
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