ANES 1998 Time Series Study

This study is part of a time-series collection of national
surveys fielded continuously since 1948. The election studies are
designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds, enduring
political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions
and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on questions of
public policy, and participation in political life. Substantive themes
of the 1998 election study include, among others, knowledge and
evaluation of the House candidates and placement of the candidates on
various issue dimensions, interest in the political campaigns,
attentiveness to the media's coverage of the campaign, media use,
evaluation of the mass media, vote choice, partisanship, and
evaluations of the political parties and the party system. Additional
items focused on political participation, political mobilization,
evaluations of the president and Congress, the "Lewinsky affair,"
egalitarianism, moral traditionalism, political trust, political
efficacy, ideology, cultural pluralism, and political
knowledge. Respondents were also asked about their attitudes toward a
wide range of issues, including social policy, racial policy, military
and foreign policy, immigration, foreign imports, prayer in schools,
school vouchers, the environment, the death penalty, women's rights,
abortion, as well as religion and politics, including new measures of
explicitly political and religious orientations. Demographic variables include respondent's age, sex, nationality, marital status, employment status,
occupation, and education.