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Description & Citation--Study No. 2936

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:2936
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02936
 
Title:American National Election Study: 2000 Pilot Study
 
Principal Investigator(s):Virginia Sapiro, National Election Studies
 
  Steven J. Rosenstone, National Election Studies
 
   , University of Michigan. Center for Political Studies
 
Series:American National Election Study (ANES) Series
 
Funding Agency:Russell Sage Foundation
 
Grant Number:82-00-01
 
Bibliographic Citation:Sapiro, Virginia, Steven J. Rosenstone, and the National Election Studies. AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY: 2000 PILOT STUDY [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR version. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies [producer], 2003. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02936
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This brief special-topic Pilot study focused on a single general topic, trust. Respondents were asked for their opinions on the honesty, respectfulness, courteousness, and general trustworthiness of the neighbors in their communities, their colleagues at work, and politicians. Questions included items on respondents' membership in community organizations and attendance at meetings, whether the respondents worked cooperatively with others on community issues, and whether they had ever contacted government officials regarding community concerns. Politicians were evaluated as to their respect for the citizenry and for their opponents, whether they made campaign promises that they did not intend to keep, and whether politicians would pay more attention to people like the respondent if elections were held more often. One section of the questionnaire asked respondents to gauge how participating in certain activities (attending religious services, following public affairs, voting) and having certain opinions (in favor of further integrating public schools, increasing Social Security spending, instituting term limits for Congress) would shape other people's impressions of them. Demographic variables include gender, race, employment status, and length of residency in the community.
 
Subject Term(s):attitudes, community involvement, government performance, national elections, neighbors, political efficacy, political issues, political participation, politicians, public approval, public opinion, social networks, social values, trust (psychology), trust in government, voter expectations, voting behavior
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:2000
 
Date(s) of Collection:April 3, 2000 - May 14, 2000
 
Universe:United States citizens of voting age residing in housing units other than on military reservations in the 48 coterminous states.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) Pilot study respondents were previously interviewed as part of the AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1998: POST-ELECTION SURVEY (ICPSR 2684). The 2000 Pilot study includes all variables from the 1998 interview. (2) The SAS transport file was created using the SAS CPORT procedure. (3) The codebook is provided by ICPSR 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.
 

Methodology

Sample:The sample for the 2000 Pilot comprised a selection of cases from the 1998 NES Post-Election study. The 2000 Pilot selection procedure first grouped all 1998 respondents according to Low, Low-Medium, Medium, Medium-High, or High level of political knowledge and interest (PKI). Then, within each group of cases, those respondents for whom current telephone-contact information was not known were removed, and a predetermined number of the remaining respondents in each group was randomly selected for the Pilot sample.
 
Data Source:telephone interviews
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2000-08-28
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2003-12-11.
 
  2003-12-11 - A revised version of the data file containing additional variables from open-end questions is now available.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: American National Election Study: 2000 Pilot Study
 

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