Jan20-public.zip

Here’s a structured metadata entry for the January 2020 Pew Political Survey—tailored to your documentation style, Abdullah:

📄 Description Pew Research Center – January 2020 Political Survey Conducted January 8–13, 2020 (N=1,504), this nationally representative survey explores public opinion on U.S. foreign policy, environmental priorities, and demographic trends. It uses a dual-frame RDD sample of landline and cell phone users, with weighting variables (WEIGHT, CELLWEIGHT) to support both combined and cell-only analyses. The dataset includes constructed race and race-ethnicity variables derived from multiple inputs. Geographic variables are based on self-reported ZIP codes to improve accuracy, especially for mobile respondents.

🏷️ Tags - Pew Research - January 2020 - Political Attitudes - Iran Conflict - Environmental Policy - Cell Phone Sampling - RDD Methodology - Data Weighting - Race & Ethnicity Variables - ZIP Code Matching - Public Opinion - Survey Methodology - Trump Administration - Climate Change - Demographic Construction

📝 Notes - Sample Design: Includes both landline and cell-only households via RDD. - Weighting: Use WEIGHT for full sample analysis; CELLWEIGHT for cell-only subsample. - Geographic Variables: Based on self-reported ZIP codes; original sample geography retained with prefix s for archival use. - Privacy Measures: ZIP codes, counties, and phone numbers removed from public dataset. - Constructed Variables: - racecmb: Combines race inputs into unified categories (White, Black, Asian, Mixed, Other, DK/Refused). - racethn: Integrates race and Hispanic origin to produce race-ethnicity categories.