                              1985 Pilot Study
                          NES DATASET NUMBER 1985.PN

                              No. Cases: 429
                            No. Variables: 1652


SPECIAL CONTENT:
  Measures of political knowledge; group identification for elderly, blacks,
  and women; attitudes toward racial groups and opinions on traditional moral
  values; important positions of U.S. Senators and Representatives; political
  mobilization; civic duty; experiments on question wording and format.

DESIGN FEATURES:
  From a sample of respondents from the 1984 NES Pre-Post Study selected
  for the 1985 pilot study, 15 replicates were drawn.  Replicates 1-10
  represent the cross-section, and replicates 11-15 constitute an oversample
  of elderly (over 60).  The 1985 study was carried out, via telephone
  interviews, in two waves.  Wave I (November 11 to December 13) encompassed
  429 interviews, and Wave II (December 6, 1985, to January 16, 1986)
  obtained 345 reinterviews.  Each wave used two questionnaires, Form A and
  Form B, administered to different half-samples (randomly assigned).
  Sample also limtited to those 1984 respondents who completed a pre- and a
  post- election interview and had a telephone. 


