Title: Pew Research Center – American Trends Panel Wave 7
Fieldwork Dates: September 9 – October 3, 2014
Sample Size: N = 3,154 U.S. adults (including 8 partial interviews)
Mode: Web and Mail (English and Spanish)
Purpose: This wave was conducted in the lead-up to the 2014 midterm elections and focuses on political attitudes, vote preferences, and civic engagement. It supports Pew’s reports on political polarization, financial insecurity, and voter turnout.
🏷️ Tags
- Pew Research Center
- American Trends Panel
- 2014 Midterm Elections
- Political Polarization
- Voter Turnout
- Civic Engagement
- Vote Preference
- Web and Mail Survey
- Survey Weights
- September 2014
- Data Quality Flags
- Raking Procedure
- District of Columbia
- Pew Charitable Trusts
📝 Notes
⚖️ Weighting
- WEIGHT_W7: Use for all analyses. This weight accounts for both web and mail respondents and includes raking adjustments for:
- Vote preference among registered voters:
- Republican/Lean Republican
- Democrat/Lean Democrat
- Other Candidate/Lean Other
- Don’t Know/Refused/No Lean
- Adults not registered to vote
- District of Columbia residents
- Raking targets were derived from Pew’s September 2014 national dual-frame RDD telephone survey.
⚠️ Data Quality
- Partial Interviews: 8 cases counted as complete if responses reached SCALE10.
- Question Skipping: Q30 and Q31 should share the same base (289), but two mail respondents skipped Q31 without being coded as refused. This discrepancy remains uncorrected.
📋 Questionnaire Format
- The publicly available questionnaire and topline reflect the web mode only.
- Mail mode questionnaires are available upon request from Pew Research Center.
💡 Funding
- This wave was supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which also funds the Pew Research Center.
📚 Related Reports
- The Politics of Financial Insecurity
Financially insecure Americans lean Democratic but are less likely to vote.
- The Party of Nonvoters
Highlights the political attitudes of Americans who are unlikely to vote in midterms.
- Political Polarization in Action
Offers insights into the 2014 election using panel data.
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