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The 2016 ANES Time Series Study with pre-election interview

Source: R/data.R
ANES2016.Rd

A subset of 2,188 participants of the 2016 American National Election Time Series Study, which was to track the enduring social trend and record the political moment of 2016 (DeBell, 2018). This study consisted of two surveys with same population. The pre-election interview was during the weeks before the 2016 general election, including 4,271 respondents in total. The post-election interview is the re-interview during the weeks after the election, including 3,649 respondents (662 respondents did not complete post-interviews).

Usage

data(ANES2016)

Format

A data frame with 2188 rows and 10 variables.

  • age Respondent's age in years.

  • edu.year Respondent's education year, which is mapped from education level: MS=8, HSdrop=11, HS=12, Coll=14, CCdeg=15, BAdeg=17, MAdeg=19.

  • education Respondent's education level.

  • income.num Respondent's family income in thousands: an numerical variable. It is median value of the range of each income level

  • income Respondent's family income level:

    '(01) 01. Under $5,000' = 5,

    '(02) 02. $5,000-$9,999',

    '(03) 03. $10,000-$12,499',

    '(04) 04. $12,500-$14,999',

    '(05) 05. $15,000-$17,499',

    '(06) 06. $17,500-$19,999',

    '(07) 07. $20,000-$22,499',

    '(08) 08. $22,500-$24,999',

    '(09) 09. $25,000-$27,499',

    '(10) 10. $27,500-$29,999',

    '(11) 11. $30,000-$34,999',

    '(12) 12. $35,000-$39,999',

    '(13) 13. $40,000-$44,999',

    '(14) 14. $45,000-$49,999',

    '(15) 15. $50,000-$54,999',

    '(16) 16. $55,000-$59,999',

    '(17) 17. $60,000-$64,999',

    '(18) 18. $65,000-$69,999',

    '(19) 19. $70,000-$74,999',

    '(20) 20. $75,000-$79,999',

    '(21) 21. $80,000-$89,999',

    '(22) 22. $90,000-$99,999',

    '(23) 23. $100,000-$109,999',

    '(24) 24. $110,000-$124,999',

    '(25) 25. $125,000-$149,999',

    '(26) 26. $150,000-$174,999',

    '(27) 27. $175,000-$249,999',

    '(28) 28. $250,000 or more' = 250.

  • PID Party identification: a numeric variable with value from 1 to 7 representing strong Democrat, strDem < weak Democrat, weakDem < independent Democrat, indDem < independent independent indind < independent Republican, indRep < weak Republican, weakRep < strong Republican, strRep.

  • selfLR The respondent' self-placement about own left-right in 7 ordinal levels (from extremely liberal to extremely conservative). extLib: extremely liberal, Lib: liberal, sliLib: slightly liberal, Mod: moderate, sliCon: slightly conservative, Con: conservative, extCon: extremely conservative. extLib < Lib < sliLib < Mod < sliCon < Con < extCon.

  • TrumpLR The respondent's opinion about Donald Trump's left-right placement (same scale as selfLR).

  • ClinLR The respondent's opinion about Hilary Clinton's left-right placement (same scale as selfLR).

  • PreVote The respondent's voting preference between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton two months preceeding the November election (Pre-election interview). It is a factor with levels HillaryClinton and DonaldTrump.

  • PreVote.num Recode the PreVote to numeric values, 'HillaryClinton'=0, 'DonaldTrump'=1.

  • WeightforPreVote Pre-election weight of a respondent.

Details

The Pre-election preference is recorded as "PreVote" and the "PreVote.num" is the numeric of it. Observations with missing values, or "No thought" responses have been removed. Respondents expressing a voting preference other than Clinton or Trump have been removed.

References

DeBell, Matthew, Jon A. Krosnick, Katie Gera, David S. Yeager, and Michael P. McDonald. The turnout gap in surveys: Explanations and solutions. Sociological Methods & Research, 2018. doi:10.1177/0049124118769085

Enamorado, T., Fifield, B., & Imai, K. (2018). User’s guide and codebook for the ANES 2016 time series voter validation supplemental data. Technical Report, American National Election Studies.

Examples

head(ANES2016)
#>   age edu.year education income.num                     income PID selfLR
#> 1  26       17     BAdeg      62.50   (17) 17. $60,000-$64,999   6      5
#> 2  56       12        HS     250.00  (28) 28. $250,000 or more   4      5
#> 3  86       14      Coll      47.50   (14) 14. $45,000-$49,999   3      2
#> 4  62       19     MAdeg      28.75   (10) 10. $27,500-$29,999   1      2
#> 5  46       19     MAdeg     212.50 (27) 27. $175,000-$249,999   1      2
#> 6  70       17     BAdeg      57.50   (16) 16. $55,000-$59,999   7      6
#>   TrumpLR ClinLR        PreVote PreVote.num WeightforPreVote
#> 1       6      1    DonaldTrump           1           1.0806
#> 2       6      2    DonaldTrump           1           0.9620
#> 3       7      2 HillaryClinton           0           0.5548
#> 4       6      3 HillaryClinton           0           0.3350
#> 5       6      3 HillaryClinton           0           0.8084
#> 6       6      2    DonaldTrump           1           0.2423