Public Opinion Research Training Lab

2006 Common Content Page

Common Content consists of approximately 60 questions, 40 in the pre-election wave and 20 in the post-election wave. These questions are included on all 30 surveys and amount to a 30,000 person national sample survey. Common Content is asked at the beginning of each survey.

In addition to these questions, Polimetrix provides demographic indicators, party identification, and ideology, and for most states validated vote. Validated vote will be available one year after the 2006 election.

CCES Planning Memo [.pdf 37KB]

Proposed Common Content [.pdf 80 KB]

CCES final Common Content questionnaire [.pdf 127 KB]

CCES 2006 Common Content Data [.dta, 136 MB] & Codebook [.doc 489 KB]

Voter Validation Variables [.pdf, 80 KB]
Do File [.do, 2 KB] & R dat file [.dat, 499 B]

Common Content Planning Group: Stephen Ansolabehere, Robert Erikson, Elisabeth Gerber, Donald Kinder, Jeremy Pope, Wendy Rahn, John Sides.

The CCES is a cooperative project and we want to know what kinds of things you think ought to be asked on the Shared Content portion of the survey. These items are in high demand, so please keep in mind that the questions that are likely to make it on to the survey are the ones that leverage the large number of cases (30,000). A question that doesn't need 30,000 respondents is better placed on an Individual Module or within a research group's questions.

Do you have a question (or set of questions) that require the large-scale feature of the Shared Content? If so, please let the Design Committee know. Fill in the box below with your question and a brief explanation of why we need 30,000 cases to generate reasonable marginals or effects from this question.

The Design Committee will consider all suggestions sent to it before May 26th, 2006.

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