I am sure that this a naïve question, especially in times of deep budget cuts, but why aren't these datasets updated in ways that quickly solve such obvious problems? I sure understand that researchers are responsible for checking errata, etc., but this seems like an error that is easily remedied through recode by the ANES team or archive holders? Am I missing something here?
EW
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From: Political Methodology Society [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Erik Heidemann
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 5:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [POLMETH] ANES Recoding question
In 2004: SR=SD and WR=WD.
Independent partisans are correctly coded.
Just run a crosstab with VCF0704a (presidential vote choice) as the row, and VCF0301(party ID) as the column for both 2000 and 2004, and the screwup becomes very visible.
Awhile back, this caused me some heartburn until I bothered to check the errata!
Cheers,
Erik
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From: Political Methodology Society [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Peter Wielhouwer [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 3:56 PM
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Subject: [POLMETH] ANES Recoding question
At the ANES Cumulative Data File Errata Site, there is this errata entry:
*ERRATA
*
*Description:* Party ID codes 1-2 and 6-7 'reversed' for 2004 data
(VCF0301 and VCF0303)
*Posted:* 2010-Jun-30
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Code 1 Strong Democrat and code 7 Strong Republican are reversed in significance, as well as codes 2 and 6 (weak Democrat / Weak Republican). Collapsed version VCF0303 is affected accordingly.
Can someone clarify for me, does this mean that SDs were accidentally coded 2 instead of 1; WDs 1 instead of 2; SRs 6 instead of 7; and WRs 7 instead of 6?
Or were SDs coded 7 instead of 1; SRs 1 instead of 7; WDs 6 instead of 2; and WRs 2 instead of 6?
Thanks for clarifying!
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Peter W. Wielhouwer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science Western Michigan University
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