STUDY CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS:
The 2004 phase of the panel study was given in large part to questions that capture the likely consequences of the election contest of 2000 and the terrorist attack of September 11th, as understood and interpreted by ordinary Americans. This included instrumentation on participation in political and civic life, satisfaction with democratic institutions, support for administration policy, views on Afghanistan, Iraq, and homeland security.

STUDY DESIGN HIGHLIGHTS:
This study completes the 2000-2002-2004 Panel Study, in which we re-interviewed a sample of voting age Americans in the fall of 2004, immediately after the presidential election. These respondents were first questioned by the American National Election Study in the fall of 2000 and then again in the fall of 2002. The 2004 interviews, which were post-election only, began on November 3, 2004 and ended December 20, 2004 and averaged 45 minutes in length. The sample consisted of 1,187 panel respondents who had previously provided a pre-election interview in both the 2000 ANES and the 2002 ANES. Randomization was used extensively throughout the questionnaire, for purposes of randomizing order within batteries or question series, application of half-sampling to some questions, and random ordering of question blocks. Data collection was conducted entirely on the telephone by Schulman, Ronca & Bucuvalas (SRBI; http://www.srbi.com/) using CATI instrumentation and interviewers stationed in New York City.

WEIGHTS SUMMARY:
P040101 is a panel weight constructed for longitudinal analysis.

AUXILARY FILES DESCRIPTION:
The 2004 ANES Auxiliary File of contextual data was created to provide a core of information for analysts interested in examining, or gathering data related to, the 2004 general elections in a larger framework: candidate biographical data, past elections, expenditures, House and Senate member records and ratings, and district and state descriptions. The 436 records represent all U.S. Congressional districts (and, for population description, the District of Columbia) and thus may be used with both the 2004 ANES time series study and the 2004 ANES Panel File.