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The vote92 dataset:

A survey of voter attitudes and behavior, before and after the 1992 election
It is available in SPSS form as vote92.sav via DOIT

1992 NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY

VOTE92 contains data from the 1992 American National Election Study, one of a continuing series of national surveys conducted by the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan. This survey has data on 141 variables for 2,255 persons interviewed both before and after the 1992 election. The study and the variables are described in Charles Prysby and Carmine Scavo, VOTING BEHAVIOR: THE 1992 ELECTION (Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 1993). This document is shelved in the Data Services section in the Government Publications Room of the Library as Study 6125. Consult that source for further information.

Variable
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Valid
N
Description of Variable

V1

1

2

2251

Voted in Election

V2

1

3

1686

Presidential Vote

V3

1

2

1333

Presidential Vote in 1988

V4

1

2

1385

House Vote

V5

1

3

2252

Type of House Race

V6

1

2

979

Senate Vote

V7

1

3

1485

Type of Senate Race

V8

1

7

2223

Party Identification

V9

1

3

2244

Interest in Campaign

V10

1

3

2086

Watch TV News About Campaign?

V11

1

3

2094

Read Newspapers About Campaign?

V12

1

3

2095

Read Magazines About Campaign?

V13

1

3

2092

Listen to Radio About Campaign?

V14

1

2

2098

Watch/Hear Talk Shows About Campaign?

V15

1

5

2249

Discuss Politics?

V16

1

4

2238

Follow Political Affairs?

V17

1

3

2252

Campaign Activity Index

V18

1

2

2252

Campaign Contribution Index

V19

1

3

2220

Bush Leader?

V20

1

3

2214

Bush Knowledgeable?

V21

1

3

2187

Bush Honest?

V22

1

3

2178

Bush Moral?

V23

1

3

2198

Bush Compassionate?

V24

1

3

1997

Clinton Leader?

V25

1

3

2123

Clinton Knowledgeable?

V26

1

3

2014

Clinton Honest?

V27

1

3

2056

Clinton Moral?

V28

1

3

2046

Clinton Compassionate?

V29

1

5

2235

Bush: Pre-El Feeling Therm

V30

1

5

2233

Bush: Post-El Feeling Therm

V31

1

5

2203

Clinton: Pre-El Feeling Therm

V32

1

5

2226

Clinton: Post-El Feeling Therm

V33

1

5

2107

Perot: Pre-El Feeling Therm

V34

1

5

2186

Perot: Post-El Feeling Therm

V35

1

5

2183

Quayle: Pre-El Feeling Therm

V36

1

5

1905

Gore: Pre-El Feeling Therm

V37

1

4

2195

Bush Job Approval

V38

1

4

2180

Bush Foreign Policy Approval

V39

1

4

2198

Bush Economic Policy Approval

V40

1

2

2181

How Country is Going

V41

1

4

2058

Congressional Job Approval

V42

1

3

2105

Who to Blame for Deficit

V43

1

3

2160

Divided Government Better?

V44

1

6

1908

Most Important National Problem

V45

1

3

1867

Which Party Best for Problem?

V46

1

3

2244

Change in Financial Condition

V47

1

3

2234

Improvement in Income

V48

1

3

2233

National Economic Change

V49

1

3

2176

Effect of Economic Policy

V50

1

3

2207

Best Party for Economy

V51

1

3

2161

Who Better for Economy?

V52

1

3

2116

Who Better for Deficit?

V53

1

5

2068

Ideology

V54

1

5

1986

Bush: Ideology

V55

1

5

1945

Clinton: Ideology

V56

1

5

1687

Perot: Ideology

V57

1

5

1853

Republican Party: Ideology

V58

1

5

1861

Democratic Party: Ideology

V59

1

3

2205

Who Would Raise Taxes?

V60

1

3

2214

Parties on Taxes

V61

1

5

1855

Government Services Scale

V62

1

5

1638

Bush: Govt Services Scale

V63

1

5

1565

Clinton: Govt Services Scale

V64

1

5

1979

Guaranteed Job Scale

V65

1

5

1871

Bush: Guaranteed Job Scale

V66

1

5

1756

Clinton: Guaranteed Job Scale

V67

1

5

1959

Health Plan Scale

V68

1

3

2168

Who Better for Health Care?

V69

1

5

1812

Urban Aid Scale

V70

1

2

2043

Child Care Assistance

V71

1

3

2181

Spending on Welfare

V72

1

3

2195

Spending on AIDS

V73

1

3

2220

Spending on Social Security

V74

1

3

2200

Spending on College Aid

V75

1

3

2213

Spending on Environment

V76

1

3

2191

Spending on Science

V77

1

3

2206

Spending on Crime

V78

1

5

2240

Maintain Military Power

V79

1

3

2216

Use of Military Force

V80

1

5

1961

Defense Spending Scale

V81

1

5

1761

Bush: Defense Spending Scale

V82

1

5

1581

Clinton: Defense Spending Scale

V83

1

2

2123

Gulf War Involvement

V84

1

2

2137

Was Gulf War Worth Cost?

V85

1

2

2154

Gulf War End

V86

1

3

2166

Spending on USSR Aid

V87

1

2

2007

Should Have Served in Vietnam

V88

1

3

2142

Who Better for Foreign Affairs?

V89

1

3

2183

Parties on War

V90

1

5

2025

Minority Aid Scale

V91

1

2

1513

Fair Employment for Blacks?

V92

1

3

2052

Affirm Action Index

V93

1

4

2137

Equal Jobs for Gays?

V94

1

4

2135

Allow Gays in Military?

V95

1

4

2200

Equality Index

V96

1

4

2202

Abortion

V97

1

4

1952

Bush: Abortion

V98

1

4

1846

Clinton: Abortion

V99

1

4

2174

Govt Spending for Abortion

V100

1

3

1930

Sexual Harassment Protection

V101

1

5

2149

Women's Role Scale

V102

1

4

1990

School Prayer

V103

1

4

2066

Death Penalty

V104

1

3

2165

Desired Immigration Policy?

V105

1

5

2209

Lifestyle Tolerance Index

V106

1

3

2234

People Have No Say

V107

1

3

2230

Officials Do Not Care

V108

1

3

2236

Politics Too Complicated

V109

1

4

2219

Political Efficacy Index

V110

1

2

2223

Trust in Government?

V111

1

3

2219

Government Tax Waste?

V112

1

2

2135

Government Run for All?

V113

1

2

2194

Government People Crooked?

V114

1

4

2084

Trust in Govt Index

V115

1

2

2148

Big Government Index

V116

1

2

1985

Congressional Term Limits

V117

1

2

2053

Moral Standards for Officials

V118

1

5

2092

Hillary: Pre-El Feeling Therm

V119

1

5

1825

Buchanan: Pre-El Feeling Therm

V120

1

5

2179

Jackson: Pre-El Feeling Therm

V121

1

3

2057

Ethnic Culture

V122

1

3

1659

House Bank Scandal

V123

1

4

2232

Extramarital Affairs Wrong?

V124

1

3

2033

Child Rearing Index

V125

1

2

2252

Gender

V126

1

4

2246

Race

V127

1

6

2252

Age

V128

1

5

2245

Marital Status

V129

1

4

2193

Education

V130

1

5

2250

Employment Status

V131

1

5

1943

Occupation

V132

1

7

2087

Family Income

V133

1

2

2060

Social Class

V134

1

6

2245

Religious Affiliation

V135

1

5

2243

Church Attendance

V136

1

2

1826

Born Again Christian?

V137

1

4

2252

Region

V138

1

3

2252

Size of Community

V139

1

3

2252

Type of Community