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Party Identification 7-Point Scale  1952-2004


                           '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 
 
          Strong Democrat   22   22   21   27   20   23   27   18   20   20   15   17   15   15   18   20   17   18   17   20   18   15   18   19   19   17   17 
            Weak Democrat   25   25   23   22   25   23   25   28   25   24   26   21   25   24   23   24   20   22   18   19   18   19   19   18   15   17   16 
     Independent Democrat   10    9    6    7    6    7    9    9   10   10   11   13   12   14   11   11   11   10   12   12   14   13   14   14   15   15   17 
  Independent Independent    6    7    9    7   10    8    8   12   11   13   13   15   15   14   13   11   11   12   11   10   12   11    9   11   12    8   10 
   Independent Republican    7    6    8    5    7    6    6    7    9    8   10    9   10   10   10    8   12   11   13   12   12   12   12   11   13   13   12 
          Weak Republican   14   14   14   16   14   16   14   15   15   15   13   14   14   13   14   14   15   15   14   15   14   15   15   16   12   16   12 
        Strong Republican   14   13   15   11   16   12   11   10   10    9   10    8    9    8    9   10   12   10   14   10   11   15   12   10   12   14   16 
               Apolitical    3    4    4    4    2    4    1    1    1    1    1    3    1    3    2    2    2    2    2    2    1    1    1    2    1    1    0
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                       N  1784 1130 1757 1808 1911 1287 1550 1278 1553 1501 2694 2505 2850 2283 1612 1411 2236 2166 2032 1966 2474 1787 1710 1276 1797 1488 1197  



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:  
     In 1966, 'don't know' was combined with apolitical; in all other
     years 'don't know' is excluded as missing data.

     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:  27NOV05