ANES Correct Voting

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Richard R. Lau, Rutgers University New Brunswick

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Name File Type Size Last Modified
ANESCodebook.docx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document 30.2 KB 10/24/2024 07:12:AM
ANESComboShare.sps text/x-spss-syntax 2.4 KB 10/24/2024 06:54:AM
ANESsharedata1972-2020.sav application/x-spss-sav 896.2 KB 07/12/2024 01:24:PM
CorVt00.Sav application/x-spss-sav 42 KB 07/10/2024 08:48:AM
CorVt04.Sav application/x-spss-sav 29 KB 03/01/2024 10:25:AM
CorVt08.Sav application/x-spss-sav 56.3 KB 03/01/2024 10:26:AM
CorVt12.sav application/x-spss-sav 150.3 KB 03/01/2024 11:15:AM
CorVt16.Sav application/x-spss-sav 99.5 KB 03/01/2024 11:54:AM
CorVt20.Sav application/x-spss-sav 198.6 KB 03/01/2024 12:05:PM
CorVt72.Sav application/x-spss-sav 58.6 KB 03/01/2024 12:09:PM

Project Citation: 

Lau, Richard R. ANES Correct Voting. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-10-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/E209844V1

Project Description

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            This 2024 announcement updates prior releases of Lau and Redlawsk’s operationalization of “correct voting” in U.S. presidential elections utilizing the quadrennial ANES surveys, now extending available data to the 2020 election. This folder contains 13 relatively small spss system files (e.g., CorVt72.sav, CorVt76.sav, etc.), one for each presidential year election study from 1972 through 2020 – plus one big combined system file including data from all 13 elections. Each file contains 11 variables:
(Election) Year, CaseID (from the ANES survey), (survey) Mode,  
four slightly different estimates of which candidate we calculate is the correct choice for each respondent (USCorCand, UMCorCand, WSCorCand, and WMCorCand),  and four slightly different estimates of whether the respondent reported voting for that “correct” candidate (CorrVtUS, CorrVtUM, CorrVtWS, and CorrVtWM).  
     The US, UM, WS, and WM prefixes and suffixes refer to Unweighted Sums, Unweighted Means, Weighted Sums, and Weighted Means, respectively. As in the past, we only provide estimates for respondents with both pre- and post-election surveys. Unlike past releases, however, the data now includes an indicator of survey mode, and we now provide estimates for respondents interviewed with all available survey modes, not just the tradition face-to-face mode. This greatly increases the number of respondents with correct voting estimates from the 2000, 2012, 2016, and of course 2020 studies (when because of covid no face-to-face interviews were conducted). Fortunately, eyeballing this new data (see Correct Voting Summary Data.docx), there do not appear to be any significant mode differences beyond what can be explained by sampling error.

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