Methodology of the RAND Midterm 2014 Election Panel

Katherine Grace Carman ; Michael Pollard

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

关键词: Survey Research Methodology;    Politics and Government;    RAND-initiated;   

DOI  :  10.7249/RR854
RP-ID  :  RR-854-RC

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: RAND Corporation Published Research

【 摘 要 】

The RAND Midterm Election Panel uses the American Life Panel (ALP) to study voting intentions, public opinion, and voter behavior. The ALP is a scientifically recruited Internet panel. Using the ALP allows us to contact the same people over time to study the evolution of their voting intentions, behavior, and opinions. Furthermore, we follow previous RAND election polling by asking respondents about their voting intentions in probabilistic terms (percent chance), which improves forecasts. This document provides a detailed description of our methodology.