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Voter News Service General Election Exit Polls, 2000 Codebook for All ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Voter News Service General Election Exit Polls, 2000 Codebook for All Parts Voter News Service ICPSR 3527 Voter News Service General Election Exit Polls, 2000 (ICPSR 3527) Principal Investigator Voter News Service First ICPSR Version November 2002 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research P.O. Box 1248 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Publications based on ICPSR data collections should acknowledge those sources by means of bibliographic citations. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for social science bibliographic utilities, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: Voter News Service. VOTER NEWS SERVICE GENERAL ELECTION EXIT POLLS, 2000 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. New York, NY: Voter News Service [producer], 2000. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter- university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2002. REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON USE OF ICPSR RESOURCES To provide funding agencies with essential information about use of archival resources and to facilitate the exchange of information about ICPSR participants' research activities, users of ICPSR data are requested to send to ICPSR bibliographic citations for each completed manuscript or thesis abstract. Please indicate in a cover letter which data were used. DATA DISCLAIMER The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for uses of this collection or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses. DATA COLLECTION DESCRIPTION Voter News Service Voter News Service General Election Exit Polls, 2000 (ICPSR 3527) SUMMARY: These data were collected through interviews conducted with voters in 50 states and the District of Columbia, as they left their polling places on election day, November 7, 2000. Part 1, National Data, contains data collected from a national sample. National sample respondents were asked a series of questions about their electoral choices, the issues surrounding the elections, and the factors that influenced their decisions. Questions focused on the direction of the country, the state and future of the nation's economy, the federal budget surplus, the investment of Social Security funds in the stock market, tax cuts, prescription drug coverage for the elderly, and the legacy of the Clinton presidency. Background information on national respondents includes age, race, gender, Hispanic descent, age of children in household, marital status, political party, political orientation, employment status, education, religion, and family income. Parts 2-52 contain data collected from the individual state and District of Columbia surveys. Telephone surveys were conducted in Oregon, as well as with absentee/early voters in California and Washington. Respondents were asked for their opinions of President Bill Clinton and the United States Congress, as well as for their vote choices in the relevant gubernatorial, senatorial, and congressional elections. Those queried were also asked whether they supported state-specific proposals, such as a state lottery in South Carolina, a state income tax in New Hampshire, and school vouchers in California and Michigan. Background information on individual state respondents includes age, race, gender, education, voter participation history, political party, political orientation, and family income. UNIVERSE: Voters casting a ballot in the 2000 United States general election. SAMPLING: The statewide samples were selected in two stages. First, a probability sample of voting precincts within each state was selected that represented the different geographic areas across the state and the vote by party. Second, within each precinct, voters were sampled systematically throughout the voting day at a rate that gave all voters in a precinct the same chance of being interviewed. The national sample is a subsample of the statewide sample precincts. NOTE: (1) A weight variable, with three implied decimal places, should be applied in all analyses. Further information on weighting may be found within the methodology section of the codebook. (2) This collection has not been processed by ICPSR staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this collection in essentially the same form in which they were received. When appropriate, documentation has been converted to Portable Document Format (PDF), data files have been converted to non-platform- specific formats, and variables have been recoded to ensure respondents' anonymity. (3) The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site. RESTRICTIONS: ICPSR obtained these data from Voter News Service under the terms of a contract that states that the data are for the sole use of ICPSR and may not be sold or provided to third parties outside of ICPSR. Individuals at institutions that are not members of ICPSR may obtain these data directly from Voter News Service. Interested researchers should contact Voter News Service at 718- 694-2350. EXTENT OF COLLECTION: 52 data files + machine-readable documentation (PDF) EXTENT OF PROCESSING: REFORM.DOC DATA FORMAT: Logical Record Length with SPSS portable files Part 1: National Data Parts 2-52: States Data File Structure: rectangular File Structure: rectangular Cases: 13,225 Cases: 590 to 2,772 per part Variables: 101 Variables: 29 to 56 per part Record Length: 151 Record Length: 104 to 151 Records Per Case: 1 per part Records Per Case: 1 Part 53: Codebook for All Parts VOTER NEWS SERVICE Exit Poll Data Documentation for November 7, 2000 I. Introduction This document describes the 2000 Voter News Service exit poll datasets, explains how to access the data and interpret the column location documentation, and includes important information regarding the analysis of these data. There are 51 individual state exit poll datasets and a national exit poll dataset. Sections of this document are applicable to both the state and national data, whereas other sections pertain to either one or the other. Attached are the following: a description of the “2000 VNS Exit Poll Methodology,” a list of state numbers, detailed column location information for each dataset, a list of all questions altered for the 2000 general election and the exit poll questionnaires in .PDF format. II. Data Files Fifty-two data files are available – 1 dataset for each state survey and 1 for the national survey. The data are made available as ascii files and in SPSS format on CD-ROM. Within each state’s directory on your CD-ROM, you will find a folder containing the ascii file (ending in .DAT) and column definitions (a text document) for that state, as well as an SPSS folder containing datafiles (ending in .SAV) and portable files. There is also a folder containing the questionnaire for that state in .PDF format. 1 III. All Surveys The information in this section applies to the national and all of the state surveys. a. Weights Columns 75-80 contain respondent weights. The weight has 3 implied decimal places (e.g. , '164222' in columns 75-80 means the respondent's weight=164.222). These weights should be applied in all analyses. Unweighted tabulations may be seriously misleading and should not be used. In the SPSS data file, these values can be found under the variable label WEIGHT. The decimal places have already been allocated in these files. For additional information on weighting, see the “2000 VNS Exit Poll Methodology” below. b. Backside Variable When Column 66 (or the variable BACKSIDE in the SPSS file)=1 it means that the respondent answered at least one question on the backside of the questionnaire, indicating that the questionnaire was turned over. When analyzing backside items, this variable allows the researcher to omit respondents who did not turn over the questionnaire. c. Omitted Questions So that your results will match the numbers published by VNS, we have applied our policies for coding omits to the SPSS files we distribute. It is our policy to exclude omits (item non-response) from analyses of most demographic variables, but include omits for most opinion questions. In our SPSS files, for those variables where we do not count the omits, non-responses have been entered as “System Missing” - they will appear as dots in the file. For those variables where we do count the omits, we have re-coded the non-responses from a blank to a “9” so that by default they will appear in your analyses. For example, omits to a question on Bill Clinton’s job approval were entered as “9”, whereas omits to the Age question were entered as “System Missing”. It is also our policy to exclude the omits for questions that appear on the back of the questionnaire in cases where the respondent did not answer ANY questions on the back of the questionnaire. The “backside” variable is used to flag such cases. We have also applied this adjustment to the SPSS files. d. Additional Items These items, not on the questionnaire, were added to all of the data files (the national and all states): Short Label Column Location Description STATE 65 State or National Questionnaire: 1=National 2=State 2 Short Label Column Location Description BACKSIDE 66 Completed Backside of Exit Poll: (where 1=Yes 2= No OVER65 59 Age 65+ 1= 18-64 2= 65 and Over AGE 68 Age (4 Categories): 1= 18 - 29 3= 45 - 59 2= 30 - 44 4= 60 and Over AGEABC 69 Age 60 (6 Categories): 1= 18 - 24 4= 40 - 49 2= 25 - 29 5= 50 - 59 3= 30 - 39 6= 60 and Over AGE65 71 Age 65 (6 Categories): 1= 18 - 24 4= 40 - 49 2= 25 - 29 5= 50 - 64 3= 30 - 39 6= 65 and Over (The age variables above are regroupings of the original nine- category Age question in Column 19.) PARTY 70 Party ID (3 Categories): 1= Democrat 2= Republican 3= Independent/Something else (This is a regrouping of the four-category Party ID question in column 48.) JOBPERS 45 Combined Bill Clinton job approval and personal favorability.
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