OVERVIEW:
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Contains raw ANES data downloaded from http://www.electionstudies.org/studypages/download/datacenter_all_datasets.php on December 22, 2016 by Levi Boxell. 

The 2008 study was downloaded from the same address on February 18, 2017.

The 2016 study was downloaded from the same address on March 31, 2017.

FILES:
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/raw/*.zip - contains the ANES 1948-2012 cumulative time series study, the 2008 time series study, the 2012 time series study, and the 2016 study datasets in their original zipped format.
/docs/*.pdf - contains the codebooks and related documents for each of the raw data.

TERMS OF USE:
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"To use these datasets solely for research or statistical purposes and not for investigation of specific survey respondents.

To make no use of the identity of any survey respondent(s) discovered intentionally or inadvertently, and to advise ANES of any such discovery (anes@electionstudies.org)

To cite ANES data and documentation in your work that makes use of the data and documentation. Authors of publications based on ANES data should send citations of their published works to ANES for inclusion in our bibliography of related publications.

You acknowledge that the original collector of the data, ANES, and the relevant funding agency/agencies bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses."


ANES 2012 Suggested Citation (from http://www.electionstudies.org/studypages/anes_timeseries_2012/anes_timeseries_2012.htm on July 17, 2017):
The American National Election Studies (ANES; www.electionstudies.org). The ANES 2012 Time Series Study [dataset]. Stanford University and the University of Michigan [producers].