Announcing the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study


There is power in numbers. Starting in 2006, a consortium of 39
universities came together to create the Cooperative Congressional Election
Study, the first truly large-scale academic survey project aimed at
studying the midterm Congressional elections.   The study has continued
every year since.   Our joint efforts have produced national sample surveys
in excess of 50,000 respondents in every federal election since.   Professors
Stephen Ansolabehere of Harvard University and Brian Schaffner of the
University of Massachusetts coordinate the CCES and YouGov in Palo Alto,
CA, conducts and distributes the surveys.

 We invite you to join this unique project for 2016.

Design

We plan a national sample stratified by state and type of district, which
permits the optimal study of congressional and state races and state
politics, as well as the Presidential election. The 2016 survey will be
conducted on the Internet and consist of a 20-minute pre-election wave and
a 10-minute post-election wave.

Content

Half of the survey content will be Common Content, administered to all
survey respondents, and half of the content will be team content,
administered to 1,000 respondents for each team. The CCES Planning Group
will design the Common Content. Common Content consists of a battery of
questions asked of all respondents to capture commonly asked questions,
such as vote choice, as well as a handful of items for which it is uniquely
advantageous to have a very large sample. Each team will design its own
team content.

Deliverables

The project will deliver a 1,000-person survey covering your team’s
content; a Common Content survey that consists of a subset of questions
asked of all subjects; and the validated vote for most subjects in the
sample, where available. Data will be embargoed for the private use of
those participating teams for a term of one year after the delivery of the
survey.

Cost

The cost of the study is $12,500 for a 1,000-person sample. Additional
cases can be purchased for $11 per case. To join the study, please contact
the project administrator, Liz Salazar ([log in to unmask]).

Schedule

July 1, 2016:        FINAL Questionnaires due to YouGov

August, 2016:      Test link to survey module sent to teams for review.
Teams must send edits back to YouGov within 72 hours.

October, 2016:    Pre-election survey in the field.

Nov., 2016:           Post-election survey in the field.

March 2017:        Survey data delivered to teams.

July 2017:             Voter-file matched survey data delivered to teams.

More information and announcements can be found at
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cces/home*.*

 At YouGov, contact Sam Luks for further information about the technical
details of the survey itself, [log in to unmask] For general questions,
please contact Liz Salazar at [log in to unmask]

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