ANES Data Tools

Quickly explore and learn about ANES surveys with these tools developed and maintained by ANES.

The Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior

The ANES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior provides tables and graphs which display the over-time ebb and flow of public opinion, electoral behavior and choice. The ANES Guide is produced mostly from the ANES Time Series Cumulative Data File which combines, for selected questions, data from individual Time Series study variables into common, cross-year variables.

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ANES Question Search

Use the ANES Question Search Tool to search the ANES Time Series survey questions. Search results show the question text (and the codebook record if available) matching search keywords. For the surveys between 1992 and 2024, you can click any question in search results to open a window that displays other useful summary information.

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ANES Continuity Guide

The Continuity Guide offers a comprehensive list of questions, organized thematically, that appear in ANES Time Series surveys from 1992 to 2024. For each item, the Guide also indicates every year in which an identical or very similar question appeared in the Time Series, as far back as 1952.The ANES Continuity Guide is designed to be a handy reference for ANES users. Users may click on highlighted years between 1992 and 2024 in these lists to open a window that displays other useful summary information.

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ANES CDF Plotting Tool Beta

Interactive data visualization tool for exploring ANES Cumulative Data File (CDF). Built for a general audience — journalists, students, researchers, and citizens. Currently supports charts for ~200 variables from the CDF dataset.

Beta version - may contain bugs or incomplete features.

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Additional Resources Using ANES Data

In addition to the above tools developed and maintained by ANES, we highlight below several independently developed resources that make use of ANES datasets. These tools may be especially useful for teaching, learning, or working with ANES data.
Please note that these are not official ANES products, and ANES is not responsible for their content or use.
  • SETUPS (Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science) : Designed for undergraduate teaching, SETUPS offers simplified versions of ANES Time Series datasets, along with background materials and exercises. Data can be analyzed online or downloaded. These instructional modules are hosted by Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
  • SDA (Survey Documentation and Analysis) : Developed at the University of California, Berkeley, the SDA platform allows online analysis of select ANES studies. The datasets are hosted by the Computer-assisted Survey Methods Program (CSM) at no cost to ANES.
  • Exploring Complex Survey Data Analysis Using R : This online book uses ANES data to introduce survey design and analysis in R, focusing on the {survey} and {srvyr} packages. Topics include design specification, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, and regression modeling.