ANES: American National Election Studies

Do you ever scratch your head wondering about voting behaviour? The ANES: American National Election Studies exists to collect those data to allow researchers to test hypotheses regarding correlations between demographic factors, attitudes, and voting behaviour. The web site has the results of both a constant set of questions that have been posed for almost 50 years as well as others created and thoroughly tested for special inquiries. Interviews (about 1,800 respondents, 70‐minute interviews) immediately precede and follow national elections. This is a staggering set of data about elections and voter characteristics and attitudes from 1948 through the present, collected...