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KnowledgeVoteDuty: Survey Respondents' Views of Voting as a Duty and Political Knowledge Questions

Description

KnowledgeVoteDuty is a modified set of responses to a small set of questions on the American National Election Study's 2024 Time Series Study. These data only include respondents who had non-missing values on all of the variables included, dropping respondents with one or more missing values.

Usage

data(KnowledgeVoteDuty)

Format

A data frame with 3,059 observations and 5 variables:

voteduty

Whether respondents feel that voting is a duty or a choice. Values range from 1 to 7, with 1 being "Very strongly a duty" and 7 being "Very strongly a choice," created based on variable V241218x.

SenateTerm

Dummy variable (0 or 1) for whether respondent correctly stated the length of a U.S. Senate term. Created based on variable V241612.

SpendLeast

Dummy variable (0 or 1) for whether respondent correctly identified "Foreign aid" from a list as the category the federal government spends the least on. Created based on variable V241613.

HouseParty

Dummy variable (0 or 1) for whether respondent correctly identified the political party that currently has the most members in the U.S. House of Representatives. Created based on variable V241614.

SenateParty

Dummy variable (0 or 1) for whether respondent correctly identified the political party that currently has the most members in the U.S. Senate. Created based on variable V241615.

References

American National Election Studies. 2024. ANES 2024 Time Series Study Full Release [dataset and documentation]. Available at electionstudies.org.

Examples

data(KnowledgeVoteDuty)
voteduty <- KnowledgeVoteDuty$voteduty
knowledge <- scale(rowMeans(KnowledgeVoteDuty[ , -1]))
summary(lm(voteduty ~ knowledge))

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