2004 Pre Case ID
2004 Post Case ID
Dataset version
Favor/oppose govt funds to pay for abortion
Importance of abortion issue to R
Favor/oppose ban on partial-birth abortions
Abortion position: self-placement
War in Afghanistan worth the cost
Respondent age
Feeling Thermometer: John Ashcroft
Feeling Thermometer: Asian Americans
R's stereotypes of asians: lazy/hrdwrking, unintel/intel, untrstwrthy/trstwrthy
R's stereotypes of asians: 3 cats
Attendance at religious services
Relig attend: 3 cats
Interested in following campaigns?
Bible is word of God or men
Feeling Thermometer: Big Business
R favors/opposes preference for blacks in jobs?
Should government see to fair employment for blacks?
Scale: Strength of link between R and blacks in society
Feeling Thermometer: Blacks
R's stereotypes of blacks: lazy/hrdwrking, unintel/intel, untrstwrthy/trstwrthy
R's stereotypes of blacks: 3 cats
Pres approval: handling budget deficit
Pres approval: handling of econ
Pres approval: handling foreign relations
Pres approval: general job handling
Bush likes minus dislikes
Pres approval: handling war on terror
Feeling Thermometer: GW Bush
Feeling Thermometer - business people
Summary: $ to cands / parties
Give $ to candidate?
Care who wins House election?
Care who wins presidential election?
Feeling Thermometer - the Catholic Church
Feeling Thermometer: Catholics
Feeling Thermometer: Cheney
Feeling Thermometer: Bill Clinton
Approve/disapprove Congress handling its job?
Feeling Thermometer: Congress
Feeling Thermometer: Conservatives
Strength R favors/opposes death penalty
Defense spending - 7-point scale self-placement
Importance of defense spending issue to R
Dem party likes minus dislikes
Feeling Thermometer: Democratic party
Is R Democrat?
Summary: R's major religious group
Better when one party controls presidency and congress?
Did R vote early?
Highest grade of school or year of college R completed
Education: 2 cats
Educ: 3 cats
R education level: 7 cats
Summary: Spouse/partner education level
Spouse: highest grade or year of college
Feeling Thermometer: John Edwards
Egalitarianism: 3 cats
Egalitarianism scale
Feeling Thermometer: Older people (the elderly)
R employment status
Feeling Thermometer: environmentalists
Environment vs. jobs tradeoff scale - self-placement
Importance of environment/jobs issue to R
External political efficacy
Was 2000 Pres election fair/unfair
Feeling Thermometer: Federal Government in Washington
Fed Budget Spending: border sec to prevent illeg imm
Federal Budget Spending: child care
Federal Budget Spending: dealing with crime
Federal Budget Spending: foreign aid
Federal Budget Spending: aid to the poor
Federal Budget Spending: building/repairing highways
Federal Budget Spending: public schools
Federal Budget Spending: science and technology
Federal Budget Spending: Social Security
Federal Budget Spending: war on terrorism
Federal Budget Spending: welfare programs
Feeling Thermometer: Feminists
Foreign pol goals: Expansionist scale
Foreign pol goals: Protectionist scale
Feeling Thermometer: Christian Fundamentalists
Gay adoptions OK?
Favor laws protecting gays?
Allow gay marriage?
Allow gays in military?
Feeling Thermometer: Gay Men and Lesbians
R gender
Importance of gun access issue to R
How much easier/harder to buy gun - self-placement
Harder / Easier to buy gun?
Does R have a gun in his or her home or garage?
Did R put off medical treatment R could not afford?
Can R afford needed health care?
Does R have health insurance?
Government assistance to blacks-7 point scale self-pl
Importance of aid to blacks issue to R
R have children in HH?
Household composition
Feeling Thermometer: Hillary Clinton
R position on aid to Hispanic-Americans scale
Scale: Strength of link between R and hispanics in society
Feeling Thermometer: Hispanics (Hispanic-Americans)
R's stereotypes of hispanics: lazy/hrdwrking, unintel/intel, untrstwrthy/trstwrt
R's stereotypes of hispanics: 3 cats
Feeling Thermometer - illegal immigrants
Feeling thermo-illegal immigrants: 3 cats
Should immigration be increased, decreased, stay same?
Favor or oppose limits on foreign imports
Household income
HH income: 3 cats
Respondent income
Inflation in next year?
Inflation much or somewhat better/worse in last year?
Interventionism by diplomacy/military: self-placement
Importance of diplomacy issue to R
Interventionism by diplomacy/military: importance
How much approve/disapprove Bush handling Iraq war
Was Iraq war worth the cost
Iraq war increased or decreased threat of terrorism
Feeling Thermometer: Israel
Feeling Thermometer: Jews
Job and Good Standard of Living -scale self-placement
Importance of guaranteed jobs/standard living issue
Kerry likes minus dislikes
Feeling Thermometer: John Kerry
Feeling Thermometer: Laura Bush
Ideology: 3 cats
Liberal/conservative placement - GW Bush
Liberal/conservative placement - Dem Party
Liberal/conservative placement - Kerry
Liberal/conservative placement - Nader
Liberal/conservative self-placement -7-point scale
Liberal/conservative placement - Rep party
Feeling Thermometer: Liberals
Marital status
Feeling Thermometer: John McCain
Govt/private medical insurance scale: self-placement
Importance of govt health insurance issue to R
Number of group memberships
Group mem?
Feeling Thermometer - men
Feeling Thermometer - middle class people
How important is it for US to have strong military?
Feeling Thermometer: The Military
Moralism scale
Moralism: 3 cats
Feeling Thermometer: Muslims
Feeling Thermometer: Nader
Feeling Thermometer: Ralph Nader
How many days past week read a daily online newspaper
How many days past week read a daily newspaper?
Both parents born in U.S.?
Which party better?: handling nation's economy
Which party better?: handle keeping out of war
Which party better?: handle war on terrorism
Give $ to party?
R Party ID: 3 cats
Summary: R party ID
Patriotism scale
Interviewer observation: R level of political information
Wh/party controls Hse, Sen?; Who are Hastert, Rehnquist, Blair, Cheney?
Pol know: 3 cats
Feeling Thermometer: Poor people
Feeling Thermometer: Colin Powell
How often does R pray
Will pres race be close in state?
Will pres race be close or will (winner) win by a lot?
Who does R think will be elected president?
Which pres cand will carry state?
Prochoice abortion scale
Pro big-government scale
R better/worse off 1 year from now?
R better/worse off than 1 year ago?
Race of Respondent
Race: White / Black
Race: White / Black / Hispanic
Racial conserv: 4 cats
Racial conservatism scale
Feeling Thermometer: Ronald Reagan
Region
Religion:guidance in day-to-day living?
Rep party likes minus dislikes
Feeling Thermometer: Republican party
Is R retired?
Feeling Thermometer - rich people
Are things in the country on right track?
Spending and Services - 7-point scale self-placement
Importance of spending/services issue to R
Social trust
Summary: favor/oppose investing Soc Sec funds
region==3 South
Feeling Thermometer - Southerners
IncrFed$, 11 prgms
FIPS state code
Does R/spouse have any money invested in stock market?
Feeling Thermometer: U.S. Supreme Court
Does R favor/oppose tax cuts Pres. Bush initiated
Timing of R's vote choice
Timing of R's vote choice: 2 cats
Days past week watch natl news on TV
R think there more or less unemployment in next year?
Unemployment better or worse in last year?
Anyone in HH belong to labor union?
Feeling Thermometer: Labor Unions
National economy better/worse since GW Bush took ofc
Will national economy be better or worse in next 12 mos?
National economy better/worse in last year?
US econ better/worse in last yr?
Country would be better off if we just stayed home
Has US moral climate gotten better/worse since 2000
Has current admin made U.S. more/less secure
During last year, U.S. position in world weaker/stronger?
Ever served or currently serving in US military?
Did R vote in 2000?
Did R vote in 2004?
Favor/oppose school vouchers
Increase fed welfare$?
Feeling Thermometer: People on welfare
Feeling Thermometer: Whites
R's stereotypes of whites: lazy/hrdwrking, unintel/intel, untrstwrthy/trstwrthy
R's stereotypes of whites: 3 cats
Kerry or Bush?
2000 vote choice
R's vote for president
Equal treatment for women in jobs
Scale: Strength of link between R and women in society
Feeling Thermometer - women
Women cause problems or face discrimination?
Women's role - 7-point scale self-placement
How important is the issue of women's equal role
Feeling Thermometer: working class people
Year of birth
Feeling Thermometer - young people