Local-News-Survey.zip

Sample Size: N = 34,897 U.S. adults.

Mode: Online survey (English & Spanish).

Weighting:

Use WEIGHT for national estimates.

Important: Estimates at the CBSA level in the official report and interactive were produced using multilevel regression and poststratification (MRP), not the survey weights. CBSA-level estimates computed directly from the dataset with weights will not match published results.

Privacy Protections:

Open-ended responses (e.g., MAINSOURCE_LOC) and “other-specify” responses (PROVIDERi, LOCALGROUPSi) have been removed.

CBSA identifiers (LOCAL_AREA) are included only for respondents from the 99 individually reported CBSAs. Respondents from other CBSAs are grouped into six regional clusters.