ICPSR - 8298 - American National Election Study, 1984

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American National Election Study, 1984
(Principal Investigator, Miller, Warren E. and National Election Studies/Center for Political Studies. )

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. Part 1 of this collection contains the traditional Pre- and Post-Election Survey (ICPSR Version). Interviews were conducted in-person prior to the 1984 election, and in the post-election wave, half of the respondents were randomly assigned to be reinterviewed in person, and the other half to be reinterviewed by telephone using a shortened version of the questionnaire. In addition to the standard core questions, new topic areas (most of which had been piloted in 1983) included economic individualism and egalitarian items, and group identification items. Vote validation data also are provided. Continuous Monitoring, January 11, 1984 through December 31, 1984 (Part 3) was designed to examine the impact of the election campaign on voters' perceptions, beliefs, and preferences. Respondents were questioned about their knowledge of the candidates' stand on the issues, about their own stand on the issues, and about their opinions and evaluations of the candidates. Interviews were conducted by telephone throughout the year, with a total of 46 separate cross-section samples selected by a random digit dialing design, and an average of 76 respondents interviewed in each of the 46 sample weeks. Although the survey instrument was very much the same from one sample week to the next, some questions were deleted and others added during the course of the campaign, as issues became more or less relevant. Thirteen versions of the questionnaire were incorporated into this data file. Each telephone number selected in the Continuous Monitoring Study generated a labeled coversheet with an administrative history: number of calls, household composition, final disposition, and so forth. Information from every coversheet generated during the course of the study, including non-interviews, is provided in the Field Administration Data File for Continuous Monitoring (Part 22). The file contains zip codes for working residential telephone numbers (where the selected respondent agreed to give that information), but does not contain respondent interview numbers, so it cannot be merged with the Continuous Monitoring File (Part 3).

Citation

Miller, Warren E., and National Election Studies/Center for Political Studies. AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1984 [Computer file]. Conducted by University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1986.

Codebook

The codebook for this study is located only in Data Services on the 6th floor of the Main Library with the call number of JK1967 .A442 1984 [pre-post only. For other parts ask for assistance.]. There is an electronic version in text format which can be downloaded.

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Filename (Size in KB)	LRECL Logical RECord Length	Dataset Details
odict.s8298cm (59K)	80	Osiris data file for study 8298
odata.s8298cm (3482K)	995	Osiris data file for study 8298
sp8298cm.lrecl (47K)	80	SPSS data definitions for study 8298
odict.s8298pp (91K)	80	Osiris data file for study 8298
odata.s8298pp (4119K)	1824	Osiris data file for study 8298
sp8298pp.lrecl (339K)	80	SPSS data definitions for study 8298
fq8298pp (323K)	132	Refer to the codebook for the documentation on this file
da8298pp (5301K)	1865	Refer to the codebook for the documentation on this file
sp8298pp.card (429K)	????	Refer to the codebook for the documentation on this file
da8298cm (3964K)	909	Refer to the codebook for the documentation on this file
sp8298cm.card (57K)	????	Refer to the codebook for the documentation on this file
da8298fa (1238K)	1117	Data file for study 8298
di8298fa (4K)	????	Refer to the codebook for the documentation on this file

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