STUDY CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS:
Content decisions for the ANES 2012 Time Series Study are closed.

STUDY DESIGN HIGHLIGHTS:
Data collection for the ANES 2012 Time Series Study began in early September and continued into January, 2013. Pre-election interviews were conducted with study respondents during the two months prior to the 2012 elections and were followed by post-election reinterviewing beginning November 7, 2012.

While face-to-face (FTF) respondents were administered the single pre-election interview and single post-election interview traditional to Time Series presidential-election-year studies, for the internet sample the same questions were administered over a total of 4 shorter online interviews, 2 pre-election and 2 post-election. Web-administered cases constituted a representative sample separate from the face-to-face sample and were drawn from panel members of GfK Knowledge Networks.

The face-to-face (FTF) sample of fresh cross-section cases featured oversamples of blacks and Hispanics. For the first time in the ANES Time Series, FTF respondents were administered CAPI interviews programmed as instruments on handheld tablets, which were employed by interviewers using touchscreen, stylus, attached keyboard or any combination of entry modes according to interviewer preference. In both the pre-election and post-election FTF interviews a special CASI (Computer Assisted Self-Interviewing) segment was conducted.