The Guide provides immediate access to tables and graphs that display the ebb and flow of public opinion, electoral behavior, and choice in American politics over time. It serves as a resource for political observers, policy makers, and journalists, teachers,...
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In order to preserve respondent confidentiality, some variables are not released to the public. A subset of these restricted variables (e.g. respondent zip code, respondent birth day) can be applied for via our partners ICPSR. Some variables such as name and address...
Some of these data can be obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau. Registration and turnout data are collected by the individual state’s Election Board. For election result data, you can also check with the clerk of the House of Representatives.
ANES sometimes makes its questionnaire available to the user community during data collection, so that users may begin to plan their analyses. At other times, ANES is unable to make the questionnaire available until data collection is complete, if releasing the...