Miller, Warren E., and the National Election Studies
American National Election Study, 1988: Pre- and Post-Election Survey
(ICPSR 9196)
SUMMARY: New topics include evaluations of the presidential primary candidates, respondent's primary vote, the budget deficit, health insurance, foreign policy, equal rights for women, the drug problem, the Reagan presidency, recall of the 1984 presidential vote, parental party identification, evaluation of Bush and Dukakis on the issues of environment and crime, the death penalty, and new system support and political efficacy items. The file also contains post-election vote validation and election administration survey data. CLASS I (Part 1)
STUDY PARTS NOT AVAILABLE ON THIS CDROM: The Non-response "Bias" File (Part 22) presents information concerning the 2,040 complete or partial interviews that comprise the pre/post survey plus refusals, no-contact, and non-sample cases in order to permit analysis of the causes and consequences of nonresponse. Included in these data is information from the Interviewer's Description Booklet, a form used for the first time in 1988 to describe attempts at contact with each household within the 1988 NES selected sample. The Pre- and Post-Election Call Record Files (Parts 23 and 24) provide information for each call made at a sampling unit (e.g., time of day, day of the week, and the result of the call), while Part 25 contains data collected in 1991 to revalidate the 1988 respondents in order to assess the reliability of the vote validation process. CLASS IV
UNIVERSE: All United States citizens of voting age on or before November 8, 1988, residing in housing units other than on military reservations in the 48 coterminous states.
SAMPLING: National multistage area probability sample.
NOTE: Two forms were used in both the pre- and post-election surveys so that a maximum amount of content could be included. For both the pre- and post-election surveys, half the sample was assigned to Form A, the other half to Form B. In particular, the lengthy section containing Reagan retrospective evaluation items was split between the two waves and the two forms in order not to make either the pre- or post-election instrument unacceptably long, and to study the effects of post-election media analysis of the presidency. The other major use of the two forms was to conduct an experiment in survey response.
Part 1: Pre- and Post-Election Survey (ICPSR Version) File Structure: rectangular Cases: 2,040 Variables: 1,301