Media predictions and voter turnout in the United States, election day 1980
By: principal investigator, John E. Jackson
Series: ICPSR -- 9001; ICPSR (Series) -- 9001
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Presidents; Election; Voting; Election forecasting; Mass media; Political aspects
Description: The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether election night reporting of presidential election results affected voter turnout in the 1980 United States election. The study gathered information on what time of day respondents voted, whether they had heard early reports of election results, and when they heard such reports. The dataset also includes variables used to assess likelihood of voting--education, region, partisan strength and feelings of citizen duty--as well as vote validation variables indicating the respondent's registration status and whether he or she voted. This study makes use of a part of the American National Election Study 1980 sample. A brief telephone interview was conducted in January 1981, with those members of the 1980 American National Election Study Minor Panel sample (C1-C4) and of the Traditional Time Series sample (C3-C3po) who agreed to be re-interviewed and could be reached by telephone. The variables used to assess likelihood of voting and the vote validation variables were drawn from the American National Election Study 1980 Integrated File. The current dataset can be merged with the entire Integrated File to permit analysis using the full data gathered for these respondents. Merge instructions are included in the documentation.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class II.

Data collected: 1980-1981.

United States.

This dataset is available in card-image and OSIRIS formats.

1,800 respondents, 76 variables.