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Pre-2022 Election survey

Prior to the 2022 U.S. elections, researchers at the SurveyLab designed a survey covering a wide range of topics, including Americans’ views on the state of democracy, policy positions, racial attitudes, and media consumption habits. The survey was administered by YouGov, which conducted online interviews from August 26th through September 7th, 2022. The survey interviewed 2,302 respondents, then matched to a sample of 2,000 to produce the final dataset. Among the 2,000 respondents, a national sample was matched and weighted down to 1,500, and an oversample of black Americans was matched down to 500. The process to produce the final dataset was the following. The respondents were matched to a sampling frame – based on gender, age, race, and education – that was constructed by either a stratified sampling from the full 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year sample or a black subset of this survey. The matched cases were weighted to the sampling frame using propensity scores. The matched cases and the frame were combined, and a logistic regression was estimated for inclusion in the frame. To do that, the propensity score function employed age, gender, race/ethnicity (national only), years of education, and the region as covariates. The weights were then post-stratified based on relevant variables (2016 and 2020 Presidential election vote choice, gender, age, education, and race) to produce the final combined weight. The questionnaire included questions on political behavior, policy preferences, attitudes, media and social media consumption, demographic questions, and survey experiments.

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