Comparative state elections project, 1968
By: principal investigators, Damvid M. Kovenock and James W. Prothro
Series: ICPSR -- 7508; ICPSR (Series) -- 7508
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 8471
Subjects: Elections; Statistics; Presidents; Election; Public opinion
Description: This study was designed to permit extensive comparisons of political attitudes, beliefs, and behavior within and among states and regions, and across the United States as a whole. Particular attention was given to analysis of the 1968 presidential, gubernatorial, and United States senatorial elections. Data on approximately 500 politically-relevant variables were collected from a sample of Americans. Interviews were carried out by the field staff of Louis Harris and Associates during the month following the November 1968 elections. To facilitate comparisons within and among states, separate surveys were conducted in each of 13 states, chosen to represent the largest states and a variety of regions. The states are Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Texas. A supplementary sample of respondents was interviewed to represent the other contiguous 35 states and Washington D.C. With proper weighting the data obtained are representative of each of the 13 states, of seven national regions, and of the nation as a whole.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: 1965.

United States.

Sample 1: 7,673 resondents; Sample 2: 798 resondents.

Kovenock, David M. Explaining the Vote: Presidential Choices in the Nation and the States, 1968 Chapel Hill: Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina, 1973.

Wright, Gerald C., Jr. Electoral Choice in America. Chapel Hill: Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina, 1974.

Black, Merle, David M. Kovenock, and William C. Reynolds. Political Attitudes in the Nation and the States. Chapel Hill: Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina, 1974.