DOI: 10.3886/icpsr36853.v1
title: SETUPS: Voting Behavior: The 2016 Election
title: Version 1

description: Voting Behavior, The 2016 Election is an instructional module designed to offer students the opportunity to analyze a dataset drawn from the American National Election (ANES) 2016 Time Series Study [ICPSR 36824]. This instructional module is part of the SETUPS (Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science) series and differs from previous modules in that it is completely online, including the data analysis system components.
description: The SETUPS: Voting Behavior: The 2016 Election is a new module that was developed to provide students the opportunity to analyze data from the most recent presidential election.
description: The data for this instructional package are drawn from the American National Election (ANES) 2016 Time Series Study. The study designers were interested in how people respond to different kinds of surveys, so they designed the ANES 2016 Time Series Study to be conducted both through face-to-face interviews and through the Internet. Approximately 27 percent of the respondents were interviewed face-to-face, while the other 73 percent participated in a Web-based interview. Only a portion of all the information collected by the study is contained in this dataset, and the selected data have been prepared for instructional purposes.
description: The study draws select survey questions from the American National Election Studies (ANES) 2016 Time Series Study. These variables are grouped in 15 themes:

A: Voting Behavior and Related Items; 
B: Political Involvement and Participation Items; 
C: Media Exposure and Consumption Items; 
D: Candidate Image Items; 
E: Presidential and Congressional Performance Items; 
F: Economic Conditions Items; 
G: Ideology Items; 
H: Health Care Policy Issue Items; 
J: Economic and Social Welfare Items; 
K: Social and Moral Issue Items; 
L: Women's and Gender Issues; 
M: Civil Rights and Race-Related Items; 
N: Foreign Policy and National Security Items; 
P: General Political Attitudes and Orientations; 
R: Demographic and Social Characteristics;
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of 
				disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major 
				statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to 
				these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
			   		Created variable labels and/or value labels.; Created online analysis version with question text.; Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Response Rates: 
					The response rate for the face-to-face 2016 ANES sample is 50 percent, while the response rate for the Internet survey was 44 percent. The dataset for this instructional package includes only respondents who were interviewed both before and after the election.
description: Datasets: 
					
						DS1: SETUPS: Voting Behavior: The 2016 Election
description: SETUPS Series
description: face-to-face interview
description: web-based survey
description: American electorate
				   		Smallest Geographic Unit: Region
description: A stratified cluster probability sampling method was utilized. For additional information, please refer to the Survey Research Methods section of ICPSR's Voting Behavior in the 2016 Election's Web page.