CES 2016-2024: Open-Ended Religion and Race Response Recoding

This dataset contains systematically recoded open-ended responses to religion and race questions from the Cooperative Election Study (CES) surveys from 2016-2024. The original CES surveys included "Something else" and "Other" categories, each with a text field for elaboration. This project manually coded these responses into structured categorical variables and binary indicators for multiple identities, evangelical and spiritual characteristics, and refusal patterns. The recoded variables can be merged with the original CES data using caseid and year, when necessary.