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Voter News Service General Election Exit Poll, 2002 (ICPSR 3809)

Version Date: Apr 17, 2014

Principal Investigator(s):
Voter News Service

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03809.v1

Version V1

This version of the data collection is no longer distributed by ICPSR. These data are currently available at Voter News Service General Election Exit Poll, 2002.

Additional information may be available in Collection Notes.

A weight variable, with three implied decimal places, should be applied in all analyses. Further information on weighting may be found within the methodology section of the codebook.

Although this dataset has been carefully examined at the national level and has been judged by an independent academic panel to be comparable in quality to previous exit polls, the user should be more careful than usual in making conclusions about characteristics based on a small number of precincts or in subsamples at the regional level because of the possible impact of the coverage problem, which is addressed in greater detail in the codebook.

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Summary

These data were collected through interviews conducted with voters in 50 states and the District of Columbia as they left their polling places on election day, November 5, 2002, or, in the case of Oregon, where all votes were cast by mail, in phone surveys conducted immediately before the election. In this national sample, respondents were asked a series of questions about their electoral choices, the issues surrounding the election, whether they had trouble casting their vote, and their actual vote choice in the 2000 presidential election. Respondents were also asked about their approval or disapproval of the way George W. Bush was handling his job, and if they would vote for his re-election in 2004. In addition, respondents were queried on military action against Iraq, and their concerns regarding the economy and terrorism. Background information on respondents includes age, race, gender, Hispanic descent, age of children in household, marital status, political party, political orientation, employment status, education, religion, and family income.

Citation

Voter News Service. Voter News Service General Election Exit Poll, 2002. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-04-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03809.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

2002

Date of Collection

2002 (Oregon: October 27, 2002-November 3, 2002, all other states: November 5, 2002)

Data Collection Notes

  1. A weight variable, with three implied decimal places, should be applied in all analyses. Further information on weighting may be found within the methodology section of the codebook.

  2. Although this dataset has been carefully examined at the national level and has been judged by an independent academic panel to be comparable in quality to previous exit polls, the user should be more careful than usual in making conclusions about characteristics based on a small number of precincts or in subsamples at the regional level because of the possible impact of the coverage problem, which is addressed in greater detail in the codebook.

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Sample

The samples were selected in two stages. First, a probability sample of voting precincts within each state was selected that represented the different geographic areas across the state and the vote by party. Second, within each precinct, voters were sampled systematically throughout the voting day at a rate that gave all voters in a precinct the same chance of being interviewed.

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend / Repeated Cross-section

Universe

Voters casting a ballot in the 2000 United States general election.

Data Source

personal interviews and telephone interviews

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

2003-10-17

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:
  • Voter News Service. Voter News Service General Election Exit Poll, 2002. ICPSR03809-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03809.v1

2005-12-15 On 2005-08-15 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-12-15 to reflect these additions.

2003-10-17 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:

  • Created online analysis version with question text.
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