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The ANES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
Reference Library: Publications, presentations and reports.
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About ANES: Project overview and history.
People: The Board, PIs, and staff.
Other Election Studies: Links to studies around the world.
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...
checkmarkRefining ANES Measures of News Media Exposure
The latest edition of Political Communication Report, sponsored by the Political Communication Sections of the International Communication Association and the American Political Science Association, includes a commentary and roundtable discussion on the Media Measures that are included in the ANES. The commentary, entitled "Toward a New Generation of Media Use Measures for ANES" was written by Scott Althaus and David Tewksbury and makes recommendations on how ANES can enhance the measurement of media exposure and its effects on political knowledge. Read More...
checkmarkAccess to ANES Panel Study Data
ANES announces a new policy regarding access to ANES Panel Study Data. Our current policy, which continues to apply to ANES Time Series data, is that the Principal Investigators do not have access to the data until they are released to the public. This assures that all researchers have equal access to the data and that the PIs have no advantage in publishing from the data. In the process of planning the 2008-2009 ANES Panel Study, however, we were asked by National Science Foundation representatives and a wide range of scholars to consider revising this policy. As a result, the PIs, along with the ANES staff, will monitor the panel data as they are collected so real-time design adjustments can be made if needed. Read More...

Celebration of the Current ANES Grant

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Announcements

Respondent booklets are now available for the 1994 National Election Study, the 1996 National Election Study and the 1998 National Election Study, 3/24/08

ANES has been working with Professor Michael McDonald of George Mason University on a vote validation demonstration project, 10/31/07.

The Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) Archive at the University of California Berkeley has added the 1948-2004 ANES Cumulative Data File to their online analysis tool. We would like to thank the SDA staff for this contribution to the ANES user community. Links to ANES files that appear in the SDA online analysis tool can be found on the ANES Data Center page. 8/22/07