2000 GENERAL INTRODUCTION

AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 2000: PRE- AND POST-ELECTION SURVEYS

     During the early spring of 2001 the National Election Studies staff 
prepared a comprehensive version of the 2000 American National Election 
Study.  The number of cases in this file, 1807, includes all respondents from
the 2000 Pre- and Post-Election surveys.  1881 variables are produced by 
default using the data definition files provided with the raw data for 
creation of SAS and SPSS system files.  

     The codebook contains documentation for variables beginning with 
identification variables which provide the NES VERSION NUMBER (version number
of the data file), NES DATASET NUMBER (number of this dataset), and ICPSR
study number.