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checkmarkWhat is ANES?
The American National Election Studies (ANES) produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists who want to better understand the theoretical and empirical foundations of national election outcomes. Central to this mission is the active involvement of the ANES research community in all phases of the project. Read More...
checkmarkConference Announcement
ANES is pleased to announce a Conference on Optimal Coding of Open-Ended Survey Data, December 4-5, 2008. The purpose of this conference is to bring together experts on systematic analysis of qualitative data and survey researchers to discuss options for improving conventional coding procedures implemented in the survey research world. Speakers and participants will include leading scholars from large-scale surveys, coding staff members from major survey organizations and scholars who have published and thought extensively about optimal procedures for coding open-ended text.
Registration is now closed for this event.
checkmark2008 Questionnaires Now Available
The 2008 ANES Study Pre-Election questionnaire and the questionnaires for the Pre-election ANES waves of the 2008-2009 ANES Panel Study are now available. Go to the Online Commons page and login with your username and password. You cannot view questionnaires by logging in as a guest. To view the questionnaires, click on the "Restricted to Registered Users" forum under the "General Information" heading of the main Online Commons page.

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Celebration of the Current ANES Grant

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Announcements

The Pilot Study Report by Daniel Lempert, Belief in a Just World and Perceptions of Fair Treatment by Police is now available,
7-29-08.

A new Pilot Study Report by William A. McConochie and Kristian Dunn, Ten Values for Predicting Political Voting and Behavior: ANES 2006 Pilot Study/2004 Study is now available,
5-19-08.

ANES announces a new policy regarding access to ANES Panel Study Data, 5-9-08.