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ABOUT THE DATASET: Pilot Study Number of Cases: 614 Number of Variables: 1934Special Content: New measures of religious affiliation, religiosity, and media exposure; questions about U.S. Senators and Representatives. A significant number of experiments question wording and formats, including: bi- vs. uni-, framed vs. stripped; branched vs. 7-point. Design Features: A subsample of respondents from the 1988 ANES Pre-Post Study was selected for telephone interviews in two waves. The sample (1988 Pre- and Post- election respondents with telephones) was stratified on level of political information. The sampling fraction for each stratum was proportional to predicted response rate. Wave I (July 6 to August 1) encompassed 614 interviews, and Wave II (September 6 to October 6) obtained 494 reinterviews. Each wave used four questionnaires, Forms A through D. |