ABC News/Washington Post Exit Poll, 1986 (ICPSR 8641)
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ABC News;
The Washington Post
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08641.v2
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This survey was conducted with voters participating in the November 4, 1986 general election. Polling sites in the 48 continental United States were used. Voters were asked to fill out questionnaires as they exited the polling places. Questions included vote choices, evaluation of the way Reagan was handling his job as president, assessment of the state of the economy, and vote choices for the 1984 presidential election. Demographic questions included income, religion, age, education, sex, race, ethnic background, and political affiliation.
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Polling sites were chosen by random selection.
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Voters in the November 4, 1986 national election.
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1988-01-06
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- ABC News, and The Washington Post. ABC News/Washington Post Exit Poll, 1986 . ICPSR08641-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-11-23. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08641.v2
2010-11-23 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.
1988-01-06 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:
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