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. The 1952 National Election Study gauges political attitudes in general, along with attitudes and behaviors directly relevant to the 1952 presidential election. The interview schedule contained both closed and open-ended questions designed to collect data on a wide range of issues. Most respondents were interviewed both before and after the date of the election. The pre-election survey tapped attitudes toward political parties, candidates, and other specific issues, and inquired about the respondents' personal and political background. The post-election interview focused on the actual vote and voting-related behaviors. Additionally, a sub-sample of 585 respondents was administered a Form B re-interview obtaining further information about organizational affiliations, personal data, and non-political opinions and attitudes. A special emphasis was placed on the perception of group behavior, especially the perceived political preferences of family, friends, and associates.

National multistage probability sample. For this sample, the 12 largest metropolitan areas of the United States were drawn with certainty to represent themselves. The rest of the country was divided into 54 strata. From each stratum, one primary sampling area was chosen. The 26 areas not representing "open country" were further sub-stratified according to rental value and dwelling units per block, and probability selections of blocks were then made from these substrata. Within each dwelling unit in the sample only one respondent was interviewed, as designated by an objective procedure of selection with no substitutions allowed.

Response Rates: 1799 interviews were completed in the pre-election wave. 185 of these could not be re-interviewed post-election, but another 100 respondents who could not be interviewed pre-election were added in this second wave. The total number of cases for the study is therefore 1899, including 185 with only pre-election data and 100 with only post-election data. The 585 respondents in the Form B sub-sample were chosen at random from the entire sample. Please see V520003 for specific codes assigned to these various components of the sample.

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..

United States citizens 18 years of age and older living in private households in the coterminous United States. Smallest Geographic Unit: city

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

There are no weight variables in this dataset.

American National Election Study (ANES) Series

Datasets: DS1: Dataset