                              1983 Pilot Study
                          NES DATASET NUMBER 1983.PN

                              No.Cases:  314
                            No. Variables: 1183


SPECIAL CONTENT:
Personal and national economic well-being, group identification, political
participation, values, and predispositions; candidate evaluations;
attitudes toward gender/racial equality.

DESIGN FEATURES:
A sample of respondents from the 1982 NES Pre-Post Study was selected 
(probability sample) for two waves of telephone interviews.  Wave I (July 1
to July 25) encompassed 314 interviews, and Wave II (August 1 to August 22)
obtained 274 reinterviews.  Each wave used two questionnaires, Form A and 
Form B, administered to different half-samples.


