American National Election Study, 2004: Pre- and Post-Election Survey University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies, American National Election Study University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies, American National Election Study Inter-university Consortium for Social and Political Affairs This study is part of the American National Election Study (ANES), a time-series collection of national surveys fielded continuously since 1952. The American National Election Studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds, enduring political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on questions of public policy, and participation in political life. The 2004 ANES data consists of a time series study conducted both before and after the 2004 presidential election in the United States. It entailed both a pre-election interview and a post-election re-interview. A freshly drawn cross section of the electorate was taken, yielding 1,212 cases. Like its predecessors, the 2004 ANES was divided between questions necessary for tracking long-term trends and questions necessary to understand the particular political moment of 2004. The study maintains and extends the ANES time-series 'core' by collecting data on Americans' basic political beliefs, allegiances, and behaviors: aspects of political belief and action so basic to the understanding of politics that they are monitored at every election, no matter the nature of the specific campaign or the broader setting. The study also carried topical and study-specific instrumentation. Questions covering issues prominent in 2004 addressed job outsourcing, private investment of Social Security funds, and President Bush's tax cut. Americans' views on foreign policy, the war on terrorism, and the Iraq War and its consequences were also addressed. In addition, the study carried expanded instrumentation on inflation, immigration, gender politics, and gay and lesbian politics. It also extended the experiment on the measurement of voter turnout that began in 2002. The survey included information on respondent age, education level, political affiliation, race/ethnicity, marital status, and family composition. Universe_4245 NSF SES-0118451 The American National Election Studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds, enduring political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on questions of public policy, and participation in political life. XIV. MASS POLITICAL BEHAVIOR AND ATTITUDES A. Historical and Contemporary Electoral Processes 2. Election Studies Series a. United States MDRC X. Political Participation Ashcroft, John Bush Administration (George W., 2001-) Bush, George W. candidates Cheney, Dick congressional elections demographic statistics Democratic Party (USA) Edwards, John Kerry, John Nader, Ralph national elections political affiliation political attitudes political campaigns political participation political partisanship presidential elections primaries public opinion Republican Party (USA) Social Security tax cuts voter history voter interest voter turnout voting behavior United States nation congressional district 2004 Individual Survey data All United States citizens of voting age on or before the 2004 Election Day. Eligible citizens must have resided in housing units in the 48 coterminous states. This definition excludes persons living in Alaska or Hawaii and requires eligible persons to have been both a United States citizen and aged 18 on or before November 2, 2004. National multistage area probability sample 2004-09-07 2004-12-20 personal interviews CONCHK CPS_ANES MDATA CPS_ANES UNDOCCHK CPS_ANES DDEF ICPSR REFORM.DATA ICPSR REFORM.DOC ICPSR CDBK ICPSR V040101 is a full-sample pre-election weight which is the product of the household non-response adjustment factor, the within-household selection weight, and a post-stratification adjustment factor by age and education. V040102 is the corresponding post-election weight, adjusted for attrition. The total sample included 1833 eligible persons and produced 1212 interviews. In the post-election survey, 1066 persons granted re-interviews. ICPSR This study is freeley available to ICPSR member institutions 1 data file + machine-readable documentation (PDF) + SAS setup file + SPSS setup file + Stata setup file; Inter-university Consortium for Social and Political Affairs ICPSR Ann Arbor MI USA National Science Foundation NSF Center for Political Studies, American National Election Study Ann Arbor MI USA 2006-04-24 ICPSR Revisions were made to the metadata record.