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.
Sample state, congressional district, and census region are typically available on the public use datasets. Additional geographic data such as FIPS county code, county name, zip code, and census tract are restricted in order to protect respondent confidentiality, but...
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...
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...
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...
