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American National Election Studies

Description

This dataset is from the American National Election Studies (ANES), a survey that aims to provide insights into voter behavior. It has been conducted since 1948 before and after each presidential election, and combines questions about voters' political attitudes with extensive biographical information. Current as of September 16, 2022.

Usage

nes

Format

A tibble with 46,838 observations and 18 variables:

year: integer variable for year of study
state: character variable for the 2-letter abbreviation of respondent's survey state
sex: character variable with values "Male", "Female", and "Other"
income: factor variable for respondent's income percentile group. Has levels "0 - 16", "17 - 33", "34 - 67", "68 - 95", and "96 - 100"
age: factor variable for respondent's age group. Has levels "17 - 24", "25 - 34", "35 - 44", "45 - 54", "55 - 64", "65 - 74", and "75 +"
education: factor variable with a 7 levels measuring highest educational achievement
race: character variable for respondent's racial / ethnical identity
ideology: factor variable for respondent's party identification with 7 levels
voted: character variable indicating whether the respondent voted in the national elections
region: factor variable for the region corresponding to respondent's survey state
pres_appr: character variable for respondent's self-reported approval of the sitting president. Question was not asked before 1972
influence: character variable for respondent's opinion on the statement "People like me have any say in what the government does"
equality: character variable for respondent's opinion on the statement "Our society should do whatever is necessary to make sure that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed". Question was not asked before 1984
religion: character variable for importance of religion in respondent's life. Question was not asked before 1980
better_alone: character variable for respondent's opinion on the statement "This country would be better off if we just stayed home and did not concern ourselves with problems in other parts of the world". Question was not asked before 1956
therm_black: integer variable for respondent's self-reported attitude toward black people. Takes "thermometer" values from 0 (very negative) to 100 (very positive). Question was not asked before 1964
therm_white: integer variable for respondent's self-reported attitude toward white people. Takes "thermometer" values from 0 (very negative) to 100 (very positive). Question was not asked before 1964
pres_vote: Character variable indicating respondent's vote for Presidential party. Allowed values are "Democrat", "Republican", or "Third Party". Value of "Third Party" restricted to Wallace in 1968, Anderson in 1980, Perot in 1992 or 1996, and Jorgensen in 2020