Q&A: The growing use of ‘voter files’ in studying the U.S. electorate
Read a Q&A with Pew Research Center’s Ruth Igielnik and Scott Keeter about a recent study about voter files.
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Data in this study came from two main data sources: 1) analysis of Facebook posts from a set of 30 science-related pages based on data downloaded from the public Facebook Graph API from Jan. 1, 2014 to June 30, 2017, and 2) human content analysis coding by Pew Research Center staff of a random selection […]
Among the most important data on the voter files for the election analyst are the records for whether or not someone is registered to vote and whether they voted in a given election. These individual registration and turnout records come directly from records kept by each state for every election. The turnout record indicates whether […]
This study, sponsored by Pew Research Center, used online opt-in survey data collected by three commercial vendors. Each vendor provided their own sample and administered the survey themselves, based on a common questionnaire. While no vendor makes the claim that that these are probability-based samples, they are intended to represent the noninstitutionalized U.S. adult population, […]