National election study, 1944
By: principal investigator, National Opinion Research Center
Series: ICPSR -- 7210; ICPSR (Series) -- 7210
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Presidents; Election; Public opinion; Party affiliation; Presidential candidates
Description: Data for this study were collected from a national quota sample with respondents interviewed both before and after the 1944 presidential election. Respondents were questioned about their party identification, opinions on postwar issues, their voting intentions and expectations about the outcome of the election, their sources of political information, the importance they attached to the election, and whom they believed to be Roosevelt's and Dewey's supporters. In addition, open-ended questions tapped areas the respondents considered to be major problems, campaign issues that influenced their vote, party differences, and evaluations of major presidential candidates and their ability to deal with specified problems.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class I.

Data collected: Octover, November 1944.

United States.

2,564 respondents; 123 variables.