American National Election Study: 1985 Pilot Study (ICPSR 8476)

Version Date: Nov 2, 1999

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Principal Investigator(s):
Warren E. Miller; National Election Studies/Center for Political Studies

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08476.v2

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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 pilot study was designed to test instrumentation for the 1986 and 1988 National Election Studies. Special content areas emphasized in the pilot are: political knowledge, group membership, identification of elderly (aged 60 and over) Blacks and women with these social groups, attitudes toward racial issues, and opinions on traditional moral values. In order to experiment with question wording and formats, two forms were used in both waves.

Citation

Miller, Warren E., and National Election Studies/Center for Political Studies. American National Election Study: 1985 Pilot Study. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999-11-02. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08476.v2

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Funding

National Science Foundation

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1985-11 -- 1986-01

Date of Collection

1985-11 -- 1986-01
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Sample

The sample was designed to insure proper representation of interest in politics and had two components: a normal cross-section plus a supplement designed to produce an oversample of the elderly such that there are 100 cases aged 60 and over in the dataset.

Universe

Respondents from the AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1984 (ICPSR 8298).

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

1986-04-28

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:
  • Miller, Warren E., and National Election Studies/Center for Political Studies. American National Election Study: 1985 Pilot Study. ICPSR08476-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08476.v2

1999-11-02 The data are available in SAS transport and SPSS export formats, in addition to the ASCII version of the data. Variables in this dataset have been renumbered to the following format: 2-digit (or 2-character) prefix + 4 digits + [optional] 1-character suffix. Dataset ID and version variables also have been added. In addition, SAS and SPSS data definition statements have been prepared, the codebook is now available in an ASCII text version, and the data collection instruments have been added to the collection as PDF files. Also, the OSIRIS dictionary file is no longer being released.

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