American-Trends-Panel-Wave-13-Dec-15.zip

⚖️ Weighting - WEIGHT_W13: Use for all analyses. This weight ensures representativeness across both web and mail modes. ⚠️ Programming Issues - Question Randomization Bug: Affected the presentation of DEMNOMOE and REPNOMOE questions. - 10 panelists were not shown one or both questions. - Flagged in variable DEMREP_MISSING_W13. - Mobile Input Error: For the first two days, mobile respondents were required to fill all three candidate boxes. - Flagged in FLAG_W13 with three risk levels: - Minimal risk (264 cases): Entered non-candidate responses. - Low risk (152 cases): Gave 3 candidates for one party, fewer for the other. - High risk (78 cases): Gave 3 candidates for both parties. 🧠 Recoded Variables - Democratic Nominee Preferences: - DEM1_W13, DEM2_W13, DEM3_W13: First, second, and third choices - Republican Nominee Preferences: - REP1_W13, REP2_W13, REP3_W13: First, second, and third choices 📋 Questionnaire Format - The publicly available questionnaire and topline reflect the web mode only. - Mail mode questionnaires are available upon request from Pew Research Center.