Codebooks (PDF) for any given ANES study can be found on the study page. You do not need to be logged in to your user account to view and download the codebook.
For the datasets on which they are provided, weights correct for unequal probability of selection and for nonresponse to the survey. This makes the survey’s representation of the population more accurate than it would be without the weights. Therefore, always use the...
Some variables contain administrative data or paradata which do not originate from a particular question. For example, many of our datasets will contain a variable that gives the length of the interview in minutes. This data is computed from audit trail files we...
ANES Time Series datasets contain variables with data on gender, race/ethnicity, marital status, income, education level, employment status, among others. The non-Time Series studies will often have these variables as well but they may vary slightly from study to...
Yes, ANES public release datasets are public goods. We ask that users provide a link back to the original ANES dataset from which your own variables were derived. ANES restricted-use datasets, and derivatives thereof (including replication datasets), may not be...
