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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).

Arguments

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.