  
                     1998 NES TIMESERIES STUDY 

                      ICPSR STUDY NUMBER 2693
                      Number of casees: 1203
                      Number of variables: 798
    


     NES Dataset number 1998.P


DESCRIPTION

The 1998 Pilot Study was a 40-minute pre-election, telephone 
survey, yielding 1203 completed interviews. The full study 
commenced on September 8, 1998 and was completed on November 3, 
1999.  
Telephone interviews with California, Illinois, and Georgia 
households were selected by random digit dialing. The sample 
population consisted of U.S. citizens (over age 18 by the day 
of the election) residing in the selected states and eligible 
to vote; people not living in telephone households were excluded.  
Respondents were selected using the Kish method, following 
identification of the number, age, and gender of all household 
members.  Payment was offered as incentive.

