Health Risks and Voting: Emphasizing Safety Measures Taken to Prevent COVID-19 Does Not Increase Willingness to Vote in Person

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ISPS ID: 
D211
Suggested citation: 

Bokemper et al., 2024, Replication data for, ‘Health Risks and Voting: Emphasizing Safety Measures Taken to Prevent COVID-19 Does Not Increase Willingness to Vote in Person,’ https://hdl.handle.net/10079/c0463300-8274-4aa5-98ad-d159de4c9515. ISPS Data Archive

Author(s): 

Scott Bokemper, Gregory Huber, Alan S. Gerber

Research design: 
Field Date: 
2020-08-28 - 2020-11-02
Location: 
Location details: 
United States
Unit of observation: 
Individual
Sample size: 
1215; 3402
Inclusion/exclusion: 
YouGov constructed a target frame derived from the 2016 American Community Survey and restricted to registered Connecticut residents. They then sampled from their existing panel and new recruits matching stratification by age, race, gender, education. Weights match the completed interviews to the target frame.
Randomization procedure: 
Randomization happened in Study Two, where respondents were randomly assigned to one of five condition at equal rates.
Treatment: 
Full treatment text is was comprised of 1) an untreated control, 2) a COVID-19 risk condition that emphasized how COVID-19 is spread in indoor spaces, 3) a COVID-19 voting safety measures condition that stated “Due to the risks created by COVID-19” election officials had been working to “ensure that voting in-person at the polls is going to be as low-risk as possible,” followed by lists of several specific safety measures that public health and election officials were taking to ensure safe in person voting, 4) COVID-19 risk + safety measures, a combination of the previous two treatment, and 5) a civil unrest condition that highlighted the recent conflicts between protestors and counter-protestors.
Treatment administration: 
Web delivered
Outcome measures: 
likelihood of voting in person,each registrant’s reported preference for voting in person
Archive date: 
2024
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D211F01 Data YouGov .csv 3265592 Download file
D211F02 Data study 2 .dta 405107 Download file
D211F02.1 Data study 2 .csv 309939 Download file
D211F03 Stata .do file study 1 .do 37106 Download file
D211F04 Stata .do file to anonymize raw data .do 1156 Download file
D211F05 Stata .do file study 2 .do 15304 Download file
D211F06 Curator README .txt 1074 Download file
D211F07 Metadata (DDI 3.2) .xml 626359 Download file