CCES Correct Voting Files

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Richard R. Lau, Rutgers University New Brunswick

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Name File Type Size Last Modified
CCES2012PresCorVt.sps text/x-spss-syntax 43.1 KB 07/10/2024 06:23:AM
CCES2012PresCorrVote.sav application/x-spss-sav 1.5 MB 10/24/2024 07:14:AM
CCES2016PresCorVt.sps text/x-spss-syntax 53.3 KB 07/10/2024 06:28:AM
CCES2016PresCorrVote.sav application/x-spss-sav 1.7 MB 07/10/2024 06:20:AM
CCES2020PresCorVt.sps text/x-spss-syntax 55.2 KB 07/12/2024 12:58:PM
CCES2020PresCorrVote.sav application/x-spss-sav 1.7 MB 07/10/2024 06:19:AM
CCESCodebook.docx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document 10.8 KB 07/10/2024 06:17:AM
CCESPresCorrVote2012-2020.sav application/x-spss-sav 4.8 MB 07/15/2024 08:57:AM
ComboCCESPresCorVt.sps text/x-spss-syntax 1 KB 07/15/2024 08:55:AM
Correct Voting Coding Guidelines.docx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document 46.9 KB 07/15/2024 08:59:AM

Project Citation: 

Lau, Richard R. CCES Correct Voting Files. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-10-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/E209845V1

Project Description

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            This memo announces the availability of operationalizations of Lau and Redlawsk’s “correct voting” measure from the 2012, 2016, and 2020 CCES surveys.
This folder contains three SPSS system files -- CCES2012PresCorrVote.sav,  CCES2016PresCorrVote.sav,  and  CCES2020PresCorrVote.sav -- one for each presidential year election study from 2012 through 2020 – plus one big combined system file (CCESPresCorrVote2012-2020.sav) including data from all three CCES election studies. Each system file contains 18 variables:   ·       Year (of the election), CaseID (from the CCES common core survey);   ·       four slightly different estimates of which candidate I calculate is the correct choice for each respondent, based only on data available from the CCES survey (USCorCand1, UMCorCand1, WSCorCand1, and WMCorCand1),   ·       four slightly different estimates of whether the respondent reported voting for that “correct” candidate (CorrVtUS1, CorrVtUM1, CorrVtWS1, and CorrVtWM1);   ·       and then four slightly different alternative estimates of the correct vote choice for each respondent (USCorCand4, UMCorCand4, WSCorCand4, and WMCorCand4), and four alternative indications of whether respondents reported voting for that “correct” candidate (CorrVtUS4, CorrVtUM4, CorrVtWS4, and CorrVtWM4), enhanced by data that were originally estimated from the ANES survey from that election year (explained further below).   The US, UM, WS, and WM prefixes and suffixes refer to Unweighted Sums, Unweighted Means, Weighted Sums, and Weighted Means, respectively. I only provide estimates for respondents with both pre- and post-election surveys.


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