Updates & Announcements

2024

August 22, 2024
ANES Announcement: ANES at APSA 2024. Check out this list of sessions that make use of ANES data. We have 3 special events that continue the celebration of our 75th anniversary.

May 1, 2024
Data Alert: Erratum for the 2024 Pilot Study regarding rand_party and rand_pid variable names.March 24, 2024
ANES Announcement: If you’re attending MPSA 2024, take a look at the ANES-related events occurring at the conference.

March 12, 2024
New Data Available: the ANES 2024 Message Testing Study 2 was conducted for the purpose of preliminary testing of messages to recruit participants in the ANES Time Series studies. The study measures attitudes towards groups and objectives that may be mentioned in recruitment messages, such as research, universities, and students, and includes question wording experiments.

March 1, 2024
ANES Announcement: the MPSA Proposals due March 6. If you are attending the 2024 MPSA Meeting and are an early career scholar with a project using American National Election Studies data, please consider answering our call for proposals. Read the full announcement or if interested, complete the form by March 6, 2024.

2023

November 16, 2023
New Data Available: the ANES 2023 Message Testing Study was conducted for the purpose of preliminary testing of messages to recruit participants in the ANES Time Series studies. The study measures attitudes towards groups and objectives that may be mentioned in recruitment messages, such as research, universities, and students, and includes question wording experiments.

August 25, 2023
ANES Announcement: ANES at APSA 2023. Check out this list of sessions that make use of ANES data. The conference this year is in Los Angeles, CA.

July 6, 2023
ANES Announcement: Call for Questionnaire Ideas for the 2023 Pilot and 2024 Time Series Studies. For full consideration, ideas should be submitted to ANES by 5:00 pm Eastern Time on Friday, September 15, 2023. Earlier submissions are encouraged.

February 9, 2023
ANES Announcement: researcher wanted for our Stanford office. Work collaboratively with the study’s Principal Investigators, Associate Principal Investigators, professional staff, and research assistants.

January 5, 2023
ANES Announcement: Updated Guide now finalized, with new charts added.

2022

December 14, 2022
ANES Announcement: 2022 Pilot Study dataset and documentation are now available. Visit the study page to download data and documentation.

November 18, 2022
The questionnaire for the 2022 Pilot Study is available from the study page.

November 17, 2022
Project Update: The ANES Scanning Project has come to an end. Over 5 million pages of documentation were scanned. The ongoing log of updates can be found here.

September 30, 2022
Data Alert: The previous release of 2020 only included data for the first mention of the DEM_UNIONWHO variable. The updated dataset ‘anes_timeseries_20202_UNIONWHO.sav’ available for download from the study page, includes variables for all three possible mentions.

September 20, 2022
ANES Annoucement: Updated Cumulative Data File and new beta version of the Guide to Public Opinion. More than 100 new charts have been added along with improvements to the formatting, visualizations, and interactivity.

September 14, 2022
ANES Announcement: ANES at APSA 2022. Check out this list of sessions that use ANES data. Conference this year is in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

August 10, 2022
The ANES Advisory Board held their first meeting to begin planning for the 2024 Time Series Study.

July 14, 2022
ANES Announcement: The American National Election Studies (ANES) awarded $14 million to study 2024 elections.

June 27, 2022
ANES Announcement: Call for Questionnaire Ideas for the 2022 ANES Pilot Study. Ideas must be submitted to ANES by the end of the day on Sunday, July 31, 2022.

April 15, 2022
ANES Announcement: Joint Study Linking General Social Survey and American National Election Studies Now Available. This data release makes combining GSS and ANES possible for the first time.

March 17, 2022
A new data product was posted to the 2006 Pilot study page. The transcription of these interviews was funded by the SNF Agora Institute at the Johns Hopkins University on behalf of Andrew Perrin.

February 10, 2022
Revised variable from the MEDSRC module of the 2020 Time Series study are available for download from the study page. For more information, read the data alert.

February 8, 2022
ANES Announcement: February 2022 Updates including information about a data alert for the 2020 Time Series study and new restricted-use data files added to ICPSR’s catalog.

2021

November 18, 2021
ANES Announcement: Cumulative Data File (CDF) and additional new dataset releases now available. 214 variables in the CDF have been updated with 2020 data. Download new data from the Non-Response Follow-Up (NRFU) to the 2020 Time Series study and additional variables have been added to the 2020 Time Series study redacted open-end file.

September 8, 2021
ANES Announcement: 2020 Restricted Data and New Redacted Open-Ended Datasets. Two restricted datasets from 2020 are available from ICPSR. We are also pleased to announce redacted open-end responses are now available for download.

August 18, 2021
ANES Announcement: The Guide now updated with 2020 Time Series data. This update added data to 60 charts and their associated tables. We are pleased to have this work completed in time for the new academic semester and hope you find it helpful in your classrooms and your work.

July 19, 2021
ANES Announcement: ANES 2020 Time Series study Full Release and additional products now available. Also included in this announcement is an update on our Restricted-Use Data Access process.

July 16, 2021
ANES Announcement: Update about Restricted-Use Data. ANES has arranged for ICPSR to administer our Restricted-Use Data program.

March 24, 2021
ANES Announcement: ANES 2020 Time Series Preliminary Release with Combined Pre-Election and Post-Election Data.

February 11, 2021
ANES Announcement: Preliminary Release of the 2020 Pre-Election Data: Data and documentation can be downloaded from the 2020 Time Series study page.

February 5, 2021
The initial release of the 2020 Social Media Study is available. This release consists of pre-election data only.

February 5, 2021
The post-election questionnaire for the 2020 Social Media Study was posted to the study page.

2020

December 16, 2020
2020 Social Media Study questionnaire was added to the study page.

July 1, 2020
Announcement to the American National Election Studies (ANES) User Community. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we recently made the difficult decision to eliminate face-to-face interviewing from the ANES data collection that is to occur before and after the November 2020 presidential election in the United States. Instead, we will be pursuing a mixed-mode study design that is contactless and comprised of a combination of Internet, video, and telephone interviews. Read more.

February 11, 2020
ANES Announcement: 2019 Pilot Study Data Available from the Data Center. Visit the 2019 Pilot Study page to download documentation.

February 11, 2020
The 2019 Pilot Study is now available for download from the Data Center.

2019

November 12, 2019
ANES Announcement: November 2019 Updates New item-level data for the 2016 Time Series study and the list of people who submitted suggestions for the 2019 Pilot Study.

September 26, 2019
Data Alert: 2018 Pilot Study Vote Validation A supplemental data file with commercially sourced voter registration and turnout status for 2016 and 2018 has been made available. We thank Jennifer Jerit of Stony Brook University for making this possible.

September 10, 2019
Data Alert: an updated version of the ANES 2016 Time Series Study is now available from the Data Center. Check out the Updates & Errata page to read about the details.

September 10, 2019
A new report is available, “Comparing Face-to-face and Web Modes in the ANES 2016 Time Series Study” which appears in our Technical Reports series under Papers & Documents. This reference document was created for researchers to use to compare questions across the two modes in the 2016 Time Series Study.

September 4, 2019
Data Alert: updated version of the Cumulative Data File is now available from the Data Center.

August 26, 2019
ANES at APSA 2019: Check out the many sessions that make use of ANES data during the Annual Meeting of the Political Science Association.

July 3, 2019
Call for Questionnaire Ideas for the 2019 Pilot Survey: We invite two types of input, general suggestions about the topics or types of questions that ought to be included in the survey and suggestions of specific survey questions (or revisions of older questions).

March 5, 2019
Data Alert: 2016 Methodology File for the 2016 Time Series Studies, for case (V160001_orig)
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February 8, 2019
Data Alert: 2018 Pilot Study On the initial data release, the variable inputstate has erroneous codes for respondents from Colorado and Connecticut.

February 5, 2019
Data Alert: 2016 Time Series Study V162032x variable label isn’t fully descriptive. Also, data for V162065x providing turnout-registration data for all respondents having known status, will be available in the next release.

February 1, 2019
Data Alert: Time Series Cumulative Data File VCF0702 was created using an incorrect variable.

January 29, 2019
ANES Announcement: 2018 Pilot Study is now available The data and documentation can be downloaded from the Data Center. Also available: the 2018 Pilot Study Auxiliary Unmatched Data File which provides data from an additional 277 unweighted respondents for use in methodological analysis.

2018

December 20, 2018
ANES Announcement: December 2018 Updates New releases to announce and many people to thank for their ideas and suggestions for the 2018 Pilot.

December 18, 2018
New release of the 2016 Time Series Study. Previously unreleased variables included. Read the additions on the 2016 Time Series Updates & Errata page. Data can be downloaded in the Data Center.

December 14, 2018
New release of the auxiliary data file for the 2016 Time Series Study: the ANES 2016 Methodology File. This file includes thousands of variables concerning the 2016 data collection that will be of use for methodological analysis.

December 6, 2018
New release of the Cumulative Data File. This release includes remaining 2016 data which were previously not available. Data are now available in the Data Center.

October 30, 2018
New entry added to the Cumulative Data File Updates & Errata, 2016 Time Series Updates & Errata, 2012 Time Series Updates & Errata, 2008 Time Series Updates and Errata, 2004 Time Series Updates & Errata and the 2000 Time Series Updates & Errata pages regarding an issue with the defense spending 7 point scale.

October 19, 2018
ANES News : updates about the new 2016 Time series Address-Level Supplemental data on Voters and the new Question Search Tool.

October 17, 2018
The ANES 2016 Time Series Address-Level Supplemental Data on Voters are now available in the Data Center. These data provide voter turnout information for individuals living at the addresses that were sampled for the ANES 2016 Time Series Study, including non-respondents.

October 2, 2018
New erratum for the CDF: It has been discovered that the 1988 question on preferential hiring of blacks (V880856) is comparable to VCF0867. Data for 1988 were not included in VCF0867 due to an error in the 1988 codebook documentation for V880856. The 1988 data will be added in the next CDF release.

October 2, 2018
New erratum for the 1988 Time Series Study: Web cases in 2016 Time Series Study variable V161317 require a recoding of values as follows: code 0 to 4, code 1 to 0, code 2 to 1, code 3 to 2, and code 4 to 3.

January 25, 2018
The ANES 2016 Time Series Voter Validation Supplemental Data are now available in the Data Center.

2017

October 19, 2017
Updated data files for the ANES Recruitment Pretest Study are now available in the Data Center This update includes a post-stratification weight variable that can be used for substantive analyses on the pre-election and post-election questionnaire data.

October 6, 2017
The Methodological Disclosure Document  for the 2016 Time Series Study is now available from the study page.

September 1, 2017
Redacted open-end responses from the 2016 Time Series Study can now be downloaded from the study page.

June 23, 2017
As part of the 2008 Coding Project, data and reports for the following topics are now available: Candidate Likes/Dislikes, Election Outcome and Party Likes/Dislikes.

May 24, 2017
The ANES 2016 Recruitment Pretest Study is now available in the Data Center.

May 2, 2017
Updated data files for the ANES 2016 Time Series Study are now available in the Data Center New variables have been added.

April 3, 2017
New errata for the 2016 Time Series: Several updates were made including important changes to Party ID.

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An update to the ANES 2016 Time Series Study is now available in the Data Center

March 31, 2017
New errata for the 2016 Time Series: We are preparing a corrected dataset for release as soon as possible.

January 13, 2017
2016 Time Series questionnaires are now available.

January 9, 2017
Data collection for the 2016 Time Series has ended.

2016

July 5, 2016
The ANES 2012 Time Series Voter Validation Supplemental Data are now available in the Data Center

February 22, 2016
Initial release of the 2016 Pilot Study is now available for download from the Data Center.

February 19, 2016
Papers from several conferences held in 1977 and 1978 are now available to read from the Conferences page. Although we cannot guarantee this archive is absolutely complete, we’ve done our best to include as much of the conference material as possible.

February 15, 2016
Announcement: The Online Commons Comments Period is open through February 18

February 8, 2016
Announcement: 6 days left to propose questions for inclusion on the ANES 2016 Time Series Study.

January 28, 2016
The ANES Guide to Public Opinion now includes data from the 2012 study.

January 14, 2016
Announcement: 30 days left to propose questions for inclusion on the ANES 2016 Time Series Study.

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