Aggregated File
demo_age - age
demo_agerec1 - recoded age with 6 categories
demo_agerec2 - recoded age with 4 categories
demo_child - number of children in household
demo_educ - highest year of school completed or highest degree
demo_educrec - recoded education
demo_gen - generation
demo_gender - gender
demo_hisp - Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin
demo_income - total family income last year (2015)
demo_incomerec - recoded family income
demo_race1 - race/ethnicity
demo_race2 - race_ethnicity including nativity for Hispanics
diversity - having an increasing number of people of different races, ethnic groups and nationalities makes this a better place to live
favor1 - overall opinion of Republican party
favor2 - overall opinion the Democratic party
favor3 - overall opinion of Supreme Court
geog_density - population density
geog_region - Census region
geog_state - state
geog_usr - urban, suburban, rural of area where live
govreg - government regulation of business is necessary or does more harm than good
guns1 - anyone in household, own a gun, rifle or pistol
recoded - anyone in household own gun, rifle, or pistol
guns2 - more important - protect or control gun ownership
guns2rec - recoded - more important - protect or control gun ownership
guns3 - gun ownership does more to protect or does more to put safety at risk
guns4 - favor or oppose laws to prevent people with mental illness from purchasing guns
guns5 - favor or oppose making private gun sales and sales at gun shows subject to background checks
guns6 - favor or oppose a ban on assault style weapons
guns7 - favor or oppose creating a federal government database to track all gun sales
guns8 - favor or oppose ban on high-capacity ammunition clips
guns9 - favor or oppose barring gun purchases by people on federal no-fly or watch lists
helpneedy - government should do more to help needy Americans or government today can't afford to do much more
id - respondent identification number
immig1 - priority - border security or path to citizenship
immig2 - undocumented immigrants mostly fill jobs that American citizens would like to have or undocumented immigrants mostly fill jobs American citizens don't want
immig3 - undocumented immigrants are as honest and hardworking as American citizens or undocumented immigrants are not as honest and hardworking
immig4 - undocumented immigrants living in the US are more likely than American citizens to commit serious crimes or undocumented immigrants living in the US are no more likely
pol1 - consider yourself a Republican, Democrat, or independent
pol2 - party identification combined with direction leaning
pol3 - political ideology
pol3rec - recoded - political ideology
pol4 - poliltical Ideology combined with party
pol5 - registered to vote
pol6 - how often would vote
pol7 - follow what's going on in government and public affairs
pol3rec - recoded - follow what's going on in government and public affairs
prob1 - how big a problem is crime
prob2 - how big a problem is terrorism
prob3 - how big a problem is immigration
prob4 - how big a problem is the availability of good-paying jobs
prob5 - how big a problem is relations between racial and ethnic groups in our country
prob6 - how big a problem is the gap between the rich and poor
prob7 - how big a problem is the condition of the environment
relig1 - religious identification
recoded religious preference
relig2 - describe yourself as a 'born again' or evangelical Christian
relig3 - how often attend religious services
recoded frequency of attendance
sat1 - satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in this country today
sat2 - life in America today is better, worse, or about the same as it was fifty years ago for people like you
sat3 - future of the next generation of Americans will be better, worse, or about the same as life today
solution - clear solutions to most big issues facing the country today or most big issues facing the country today don't have clear solutions
solveprob - can always find ways to solve our problems and get what we want or country can't solve many of its important problems
weight - weight