This study is part of a time-series collection of national surveys fielded continuously since 1948. 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. Substantive themes of the 1998 election study include, among others, knowledge and evaluation of the House candidates and placement of the candidates on various issue dimensions, interest in the political campaigns, attentiveness to the media's coverage of the campaign, media use, evaluation of the mass media, vote choice, partisanship, and evaluations of the political parties and the party system. Additional items focused on political participation, political mobilization, evaluations of the president and Congress, the "Lewinsky affair," egalitarianism, moral traditionalism, political trust, political efficacy, ideology, cultural pluralism, and political knowledge. Respondents were also asked about their attitudes toward a wide range of issues, including social policy, racial policy, military and foreign policy, immigration, foreign imports, prayer in schools, school vouchers, the environment, the death penalty, women's rights, abortion, as well as religion and politics, including new measures of explicitly political and religious orientations. Demographic variables include respondent's age, sex, nationality, marital status, employment status, occupation, and education.

The 1998 Post-Election Study data includes analysis weight V980002. This weight was created for the primary purpose of correcting for under- representation of younger and less educated respondents, and is post-stratified to match the Current Population Study (CPS) estimate of the distribution of age group by education level. It is the product of a within-household selection weight, a household-level non-response adjustment factor, and the person-level post-stratification factor already described. The non-response adjustment factor compensates for differential response rates by Census Region and metropolitan status. Full information about construction of the weight is found in the section "1998 Weight Documentation" of the original ICPSR Codebook, 2000 Release.

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..

All United States citizens of voting age on, or before November 3, 1998, residing in housing units other than on military reservations in the 48 co-terminous states. Smallest Geographic Unit: congressional district

Response Rates: 1,281 completions were obtained from 2,008 eligible in the sample, for a response rate of 63.9 percent.

face-to-face interview, telephone interview For further information please see the ANES Data Center Web site.

Datasets: DS1: AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1998: POST-ELECTION SURVEY

American National Election Study (ANES) Series

National multistage area probability sample.