ces: Data from the Cooperative Election Study
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Data from the Cooperative Election Study

Description

Data for the approval ratings of voters to various government positions combined with the demographic background of the voter. See Kuriwaki (2024) for background and details. The raw code that was used to produce the data is accessible at Kuriwaki's Github.

Usage

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Format

A tibble with 617,455 observations and 17 variables:

case_id: integer variable for case number
year: integer variable for year of survey
state: character variable for state of residence for observation
sex: factor variable of "Female" and "Male"
age: integer variable for age in years
race: factor variable for racial identity
marstat: factor variable for marriage status
religion: factor variable for religious belief
faminc: ordered factor variable for yearly family income - takes values of "Less than 10k" "10k - 20k", "20k - 30k", "30k - 40k", "40k - 50k", "50k - 60k", "60k - 70k", "70k - 80k", "80k - 100k", "100k - 120k", "120k - 150k", and "150k+"
ideology: factor variable for self-reported ideology - takes values of "Very Liberal", "Liberal", "Moderate", "Conservative", "Very Conservative", and "Not Sure"
education: factor variable for level of education - takes values of "No HS", "High School Graduate", "Some College", "2-Year", "4-Year", and "Post-Grad"
news: factor variable for level news/current events interest
econ: factor variable for retrospective report on the past year's economy
approval: ordered factor variable of approval of president - takes values of "Strongly Approve", "Approve / Somewhat Approve", "Neither Approve Nor Disapprove", "Disapprove / Somewhat Disapprove", "Strongly Disapprove"
military: factor variable indicating whether the respondent or someone in their immediate family is serving or has ever served in the U.S. military
voted: factor variable for validated turnout in general elections - takes values of "Voted", "No Record of Voting", and "No Voter File"