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: Performed consistency checks.; Standardized missing values.; Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..

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.

Individuals interviewed were a representative cross-section of the United States adult population living in private households. The sample was selected by area sampling. The 662 interviews came from 32 sample points: 27 widely scattered counties plus 5 of the 12 largest metropolitan areas, each of the latter including several counties.

United States citizens 18 years of age and older living in private households in the coterminous United States.

face-to-face interview The SAS transport file was created using the SAS CPORT procedure.

American National Election Study (ANES) Series

Datasets: DS1: Dataset