The ANES

In the mail: 

American National Election Studies surveys have routinely included open-ended questions, tapping respondents’ factual knowledge about politics, people’s beliefs about the country’s most important problems, and questions about what people like about political candidates and parties. We recently investigated how answers to these questions have been recorded and coded in the past and discovered an array of problems. We have written a report to describe what we discovered, offer advice to researchers about how to use these questions, and describe how we are using the results of our investigation to improve data collection and distribution practices at ANES and other studies. To access a copy of the report, please visit the ANES website and this link. If you have any comments or questions, please e-mail us at anes@electionstudies.org.  

I hear the scurry of the feet of graduate students on their way to the lab to replicate.

Classic ANES studies, that is.