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Party Identification 7-Point Scale (revised in 2008)  1952-2008


                           '52  '54  '56  '58  '60  '62  '64  '66  '68  '70  '72  '74  '76  '78  '80  '82  '84  '86  '88  '90  '92  '94  '96  '98  '00  '02  '04  '08 
 
          Strong Democrat   23   23   22   28   21   24   27   18   20   20   15   18   15   15   18   20   17   18   18   20   18   15   18   19   19   17   17   19 
            Weak Democrat   26   26   24   23   26   24   25   28   26   24   25   21   25   24   23   24   20   22   18   19   17   18   19   18   15   17   16   15 
     Independent Democrat   10    9    7    7    6    8    9    9   10   10   11   13   12   14   11   11   11   10   12   12   14   13   14   14   15   16   17   17 
  Independent Independent    5    8    9    8   10    8    8   12   11   13   15   18   16   16   15   13   13   14   12   12   13   11   10   12   13    7   10   11 
   Independent Republican    8    6    9    5    7    6    6    7    9    8   10    9   10   10   10    8   12   11   13   12   12   12   12   11   13   13   12   12 
          Weak Republican   14   15   15   17   14   17   14   15   15   15   13   14   14   13   14   14   15   15   14   15   14   15   15   16   12   16   12   13 
        Strong Republican   14   13   16   12   16   13   11   10   10    9   10    8    9    8    9   10   12   11   14   10   11   15   12   10   12   15   16   13
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                       N  1689 1088 1690 1737 1864 1237 1536 1263 1531 1490 2695 2492 2833 2269 1612 1403 2228 2157 2026 1965 2473 1780 1706 1267 1790 1466 1194 2293  



PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 2A.1
Source:  The American National Election Studies



     QUESTION TEXT:

     "Generally speaking, do you usually think of yourself as a
     Republican, a Democrat, an Independent, or what?"
     (IF REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT) "Would you call yourself a strong
     (REPUBLICAN/DEMOCRAT) or a not very strong (REPUBLICAN/DEMOCRAT)?"
     (IF INDEPENDENT, OTHER [1966 and later: OR NO PREFERENCE]:) "Do you
     think of yourself as closer to the Republican or Democratic party?"
       

     NOTE:  
     This summary for party identification has been revised in 2010 to conform,
     as much as possible, with the December, 2009 ANES memo on its construction.
     One result of the revision is the removal of the apolitical category.

     This question is variable VCF0301 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset.
     Consult the Cumulative Data File codebook for complete question text and annotation.
     Weight variable VCF0009A was used to produce this table (see weight documentation).

     Table generated:  05AUG10