  
                           1998 NES TIMESERIES STUDY 

                            ICPSR STUDY NUMBER 2684 
                            Number of casees: 1281
                            Number of variables: 737
    


     NES Dataset number 1998.T

     DATA NOTE:  Weight variable is V980002.

     TOPICS AND THEMES:
     Substantive themes of the 1998 Election Study (among others) 
     include knowledge and evaluation of the House candidates and
     placement of the candidates on various issue dimensions; 
     interest in the political campaigns; attentiveness to the 
     media's coverage of the campaign, media use, evaluation of the 
     mass media; vote choice; partisanship and evaluations of the 
     political parties and party system;  political participation; 
     political mobilization;  evaluations of the president and congress;
     questions relating to the "Lewinsky affair;"  egalitarianism; moral 
     traditionalism; political trust; political efficacy; ideology;
     cultural pluralism; political knowledge; attitudes toward a wide 
     range of issues, including social policy, race policy, military
     and foreign policy, immigration, foreign imports, prayer in 
     school, school vouchers, the environment, the death penalty, 
     women's rights, and abortion; religion and politics, including 
     new measures of explicitly polical religious orientations; plus
     demographic information. 


    

