  
                           2000 NES TIMESERIES STUDY 

                            ICPSR STUDY NUMBER 3131
                            Number of casees: 1807
                            Number of variables: 1887
    


     The NES Dataset number is 2000.T

     DATA NOTE:  Weight variable is V000002.

     STUDY DESCRIPTION:
     The 2000 National Election Study entailed both a pre-election 
     interview and a post-election re-interview. A freshly drawn cross 
     section of the electorate was taken to yield 1807 cases. The 65 
     minute pre election survey went into the field September 5th, nine 
     weeks before election day. The 65 minute post election study, unique 
     to the time series in that no president elect was named for several 
     days, went into the field the day after the election, November 8th, 
     and remained in the field until December 21st.

     Because of the study's most innovative feature, a carefully designed 
     mode experiment, the data represent two presidential studies in 2000,
     side by side. The core study preserves our past commitment to probability
     area sample and face to face interviewing: 1000 respondents interviewed
     prior to the election and 694 were re-interviewed face to face after the
     election. Supporting the core study, we used the efficiencies of RDD
     sampling and telephone interviewing: 803 respondents were interviewed by
     phone prior to the election and 862 respondents were interviewed by phone
     after the election. As such, the experiment will define sharply the
     differences between the two modes and allow us to learn what a shift to
     telephone interviewing will mean for the NES time-series. 




