                       1988 NES Super Tuesday Study 
                          NES DATASET NUMBER 1988.S

                           No. Cases: 2117
                           No. Variables: 622


SPECIAL THEMES AND NEW TOPICS:
The pre-election wave for this data collection was in the field between
January 17 and March 8, 1988.  Questions include candidate recognition and
evaluations, feeling thermometers and traits, assessment  of each candidate's
chances of winning his/her party's nomination and the November general
election,  attitudes on public issues, vote intention and choice, and
respondent's age, race, education, occupation,  labor union membership,
income, and religious affiliation. Immediately following Super Tuesday, brief 
reinterviews were conducted that contained recognition and feeling
thermometers on all candidates and  traits of selected candidates. A full
range of voting questions also was asked including: whether the respondent
voted, in which primary and for whom, who the respondent preferred to see each
party  nominate for president, and who the respondent most wanted to see
elected as president.

DESIGN FEATURES:
Telephone interviews, RDD sample. Interviewing distributed over a 7 week field
period which preceded  March 8th, on which 16 states held a presidential
primary. Brief reinterviews conducted immediately  (2/3 in first week) after
Super-Tuesday. There were 4 forms of questionnaires, determining the order 
in which the 8 candidates' names were presented to respondents.

