The CDF has served researchers as the most downloaded dataset in the ANES archive, and provides the data used to produce the present analog of the original publication -- the segment of the ANES website that is most visited -- the online ANES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior.
All ANES data are free and available online from the ANES Data Center. Additionally, an online Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior provides easy access to tables and graphs that display the ebb and flow of public opinion, electoral behavior, and choice in American politics over time.
Founded in 1948, the core mission of the American National Election Study (ANES) is to inform explanations of election outcomes by providing data that support rich hypothesis testing, maximize methodological excellence, measure many variables, and promote comparisons across people, contexts and time.
"To serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists, the ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
In recognition of the ANES’s 75th anniversary, the Center for Political Studies reached out to scholars to ask what we know about American politics, voters and voting behaviors because of the ANES.
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) handles applications for ANES Restricted-Use Data and provides access to the data through their Virtual Data Enclave (VDE), a secure, virtual environment that is accessible from your own desktop computer.
Anil Neerukonda Educational Society (ANES) was founded by Dr. N. B. R. Prasad, an NRI Philanthropist from USA, in memory of his son, Late Anil Neerukonda.