Voting Behavior: The 2016 Election

About the Project

Voting Behavior: The 2016 Election is a new SETUPS (Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science) that offers students the ability to analyze an accessible dataset drawn from the 2016 American National Election Study (ANES) survey of the American electorate. Charles Prysby and Carmine Scavo, who have coauthored the voting behavior SETUPS modules since 1984, developed this new SETUPS module to provide students the opportunity to analyze data from the most recent presidential election. This instructional module is part of a long line of voting behavior SETUPS, which began with the 1972 election. For 44 years, the American Political Science Association (APSA) and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) have collaborated to develop and distribute the SETUPS. The 2016 SETUPS module continues the model begun in 2004 of being completely online. We hope users find this approach desirable, and we welcome their feedback.

We are grateful to ICPSR for its support of this project. Lynette Hoelter provided overall administrative leadership of this project.

—Charles Prysby and Carmine Scavo

View SETUPS brochure (pdf)

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I obtain the raw dataset?

The analysis exercises were built from a subset of the 2016 American National Election Study (ANES).

I’m having a problem with the analysis exercises. Where can I get help?

The About the Authors section above provides the email addresses of the individuals involved in the creation of this site.

How do I cite this project/site?

Prysby, Charles, Carmine Scavo, American Political Science Association, and Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. SETUPS: Voting Behavior: The 2016 Election. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017.