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GerberGreen: Data from the 1998 New Haven Get-Out-the-Vote Experiment

Description

This data set contains the most recent corrected data from the field experiment analyzed in Gerber and Green (2000).

Usage

data

Format

A data frame consisting of 9 columns and 29,380 observations.

voted98	integer	voted in 1998
0,1	persngrp	factor
personal contact attempted	0,1	phnscrpt
factor	script read to phone respondents	7 levels
mailings	factor	number of mailings sent
0 - 3	appeal	factor
content of message	3 levels	age
integer	age of respondent
majorpty	factor	Democratic or Republican
	voted96.1	factor
voted in 1996	0,1	voted96.0
factor	abstained in 1996	0,1

Note: The levels of phnscrpt and appeal are follows. phnscrpt: Script read to phone respondents

0
No phone
1
Civic-Blood
2
Civic
3
Civic or Blood-Civic
4
Neighbor
5
Neighbor or Civic-Neighbor

appeal: Content of message

1

Civic Duty

2

Neighborhood Solidarity

References

Gerber, A. S. and Green, D. P. 2000 . ``The effects of canvassing, telephone calls, and direct mail on voter turnout: A field experiment.'' American Political Science Review, Vol.94, No.3, pp. 653-663.

Imai, K. 2005 . ``Do get-out-the-vote calls reduce turnout?: The importance of statistical methods for field experiments."" American Political Science Review, Vol.99, No.2, pp. 283-300.