Pathways-June-2020-ATP-W68.zip

Project scope: Dataset includes variables relevant only to the Pathways to Election News Project.

Survey script error:

Text edits for questions FLOYDFOL, FLOYDSM, and NEWSHEARD were not consistently applied.

503 respondents saw the corrected text, while 9,151 saw the incorrect version.

Variable FLAG_W68 identifies affected respondents.

Analysis notes:

FLOYDFOL and FLOYDSM: No discernible differences between versions.

NEWSHEARD_B, C, H, K: Responses differed significantly → deemed unusable/unreliable and removed.

Carried-over Pathways variables:

GROUP_TRUST_a_W57

NEWS_MOST_W57

TALKPOL_W57

FOLELECT_W57

COVIDNEWSRELY_W66

Created variables:

CR_PARTYNEWSUSE_W57 – Partisan media use categories.

CR_NEWS_INFLU_W57 – News influencers, bystanders, disengaged.

CR_DIG_SAV_W57 – Digital savviness index.

CR_MAINSOPOL_GROUPS_W57 – Main political news source categories.

CR_KNOWLEDGE_INDEX_W57 – Political knowledge index.

Weights: Use WEIGHT_W68 for analysis; standard across Pew reports.