GerberGreen: Data from the 1998 New Haven Get-Out-the-Vote Experiment

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Data from the 1998 New Haven Get-Out-the-Vote Experiment

Description

This data set contains the most recent corrected data from the field experiment analyzed in Gerber and Green (2000).

Format

A data frame consisting of 9 columns and 29,380 observations.

voted98	integer	voted in 1998	0,1
persngrp	factor	personal contact attempted	0,1
phnscrpt	factor	script read to phone respondents	7 levels
mailings	factor	number of mailings sent	0 - 3
appeal	factor	content of message	3 levels
age	integer	age of respondent
majorpty	factor	Democratic or Republican
voted96.1	factor	voted in 1996	0,1
voted96.0	factor	abstained in 1996	0,1

Note: The levels of phnscrpt and appeal are follows.

phnscrpt: Script read to phone respondents

0	No phone
1	Civic-Blood
2	Civic
3	Civic or Blood-Civic
4	Neighbor
5	Neighbor or Civic-Neighbor
6	Close

appeal: Content of message

1	Civic Duty
2	Neighborhood Solidarity
3	Close Election

References

Gerber, A. S. and Green, D. P. 2000 . “The effects of canvassing, telephone calls, and direct mail on voter turnout: A field experiment.” American Political Science Review, Vol.94, No.3, pp. 653-663.

Imai, K. 2005 . “Do get-out-the-vote calls reduce turnout?: The importance of statistical methods for field experiments."" American Political Science Review, Vol.99, No.2, pp. 283-300.

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