No, ANES conducts scientific surveys, employing random samples, which are designed to observe voter behavior and public opinion. The ANES design is focused on understanding behaviors and attitudes, rather than on predicting election outcomes.
Once you have created an ANES user account, click on Data Center from the top menu. The Data Center page contains a list of links to individual study pages for Time Series, Pilot, and Other studies. In the top left corner of each study page is a box called...
Standard ANES data releases are available in ASCII, .SAV (SPSS), and .DTA (Stata). The ASCII data file can be used to read the data into a number of different applications including SAS, R, and Microsoft Excel. More recent studies also include a .CSV version of the...
Some ANES studies are available for analysis using software developed at the University of California, Berkeley, as part of the Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) archives of the Computer-assisted Survey Methods Program (CSM). CSM maintains datasets in their...
