Candidata: U.S. 2024 Elections Candidates and Social Media Posts (ICPSR 300490)
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Candidata is a dataset of social media handles and posts for candidates for primary and general federal elections in the United States in 2024 across multiple social media platforms. The dataset spans Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, X (Twitter), YouTube, Gettr, Rumble, Telegram, and Truth Social. For interoperability, we provide FEC IDs and ICPSR IDs where available.
ANES Social Media Study Restricted-Use Facebook Supplemental Data, 2020-2022 (ICPSR 38912)
The ANES 2020-2022 Social Media Study was a two-wave survey before and after the 2020 presidential election and a third survey following the 2022 midterm elections in the United States. Data from these surveys are available as a public use file from the American National Election Studies (ANES) website. The three questionnaires have largely the same content, affording repeated measures of the same constructs. The questionnaire covers voter turnout and candidate choice in the 2020 presidential primaries and general election, the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, feeling thermometers, feelings about how things are going in the country, trust in institutions, political knowledge and misinformation, political participation, political stereotyping, political diversity of social networks, and campaign/policy issues including health insurance, immigration, guns, and climate change.