Data for the approval ratings of voters to various government positions combined with the demographic background of the voter. See Kuriwaki (2020) for background and details. The raw code that was used to produce the data is accessible at Kuriwaki's Github.

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Format

A tibble with 531,755 observations and 18 variables:

year

integer variable for year of survey

state

character variable for state of residence for observation

gender

character variable of "Female" and "Male"

age

integer variable for age in years

race

character variable for racial identity

marstat

character variable for marriage status

religion

character variable for religious belief

faminc

factor variable for yearly family income - takes values of "Less than 10k" "10k - 20k", "20k - 30k", "30k - 40k", "40k - 50k", "50k - 60k", "60k - 70k", "70k - 80k", "80k - 100k", "100k - 120k", "120k - 150k", and "150k+"

ideology

factor variable for self-reported ideology - takes values of "Very Liberal", "Liberal", "Moderate", "Conservative", "Very Conservative", and "Not Sure"

education

factor variable for level of education - takes values of "No HS", "High School Graduate", "Some College", "2-Year", "4-Year", and "Post-Grad"

news

character variable for level news/current events interest

econ

character variable for retrospective report on the past year's economy

approval_ch

character variable of approval of president - takes values of "Strongly Approve", "Approve / Somewhat Approve", "Disapprove / Somewhat Disapprove", "Never Heard / Not Sure", "Neither Approve Nor Disapprove"

approval

numeric variable of approval for the current president on a 1-5 scale with higher numbers indicating greater approval

military

character variable indicating whether the respondent or someone in their immediate family is serving or has ever served in the U.S. military

voted

character variable for validated turnout in general elections - takes values of "Voted", "No Record of Voting", and "No Voter File"

resentment

factor variable of approval for the the statement that Blacks should work their way up without special favors like many other minorities - take values of "Strongly agree", "Somewhat agree", "Neither agree nor disagree", "Somewhat disagree", "Strongly disagree"

aff_action

factor variable of approval for race-related affirmative action - takes values of "Strongly support", "Somewhat support", "Somewhat oppose", and "Strongly oppose"

Author

David Kane