                              1995 Pilot Study
                          NES DATASET NUMBER 1995.PN

                             No. of Cases: 486
                             No. Variables: 1124



SPECIAL CONTENT:
The content of the study reflects the NES commitment to improve measures of
candidate evaluation, the impact of the campaign, values and predispositions,
the comparative study of elections,and other responses to a stimulus letter
calling for ideas for content sent to the user community on November 4, 1994.
Specific topic areas in the study include: (1) an experiment using different
measures of affective reactions to political figures, (2) a module of items
that are being concurrently tested in many other nations as part of a
comparative study of politics, (3) a set of 12 items asking respondents to
make tradeoffs between programs, taxes, and the budget deficit, (4) a set of
items designed to measure attitudes toward the environment and environmental
policy, (5) a new measure of ''humanitarianism,'' and (6) an extensive set of
items regarding attention to the media, intended to capture exposure to the
political campaigns. 

DESIGN FEATURES:
Conducted between August 3 and September 10th, 1995. Respondents were seleted
from 1994 'fresh' Cross-section cases (respondents not previously interviewed
in 1992).  In order to include all of the content, and to test between
competing instrumentation, there were two forms of the questionnaire. Rosters
of items, such as the thermometer, were randomized in administration to
minimize order effects.

