File structure

The ANES directory on tempter is

/home/twork1/nes_cdrom

Within this directory is a listing of the subdirectories containing data for each separate survey, for example

  drwxr-sr-x   2 wrm1     govt         512 May 17 1995  nes1994
  drwxr-sr-x   2 wrm1     research     512 Jun 29 1997  nes1996

Where the names should be fairly intuitive to understand. Looking within `nes1996', we see

  -r--r--r--   1 wrm1     research 4275480 Jun 29 1997  cb6896pp
  -r--r--r--   1 wrm1     research 1176000 Jun 29 1997  cb6896pp.appd
  -r--r--r--   1 wrm1     research 4447830 Jun 29 1997  da6896pp
  -r--r--r--   1 wrm1     research   10586 Jun 29 1997  readme.s6896pp
  -r--r--r--   1 wrm1     research 1237132 Jun 29 1997  sa6896pp

In most ANES subdirectories, there will be `readme' file. This file will contain a description of the contents of the other files.

sa6896pp       SAS data definition file
da6896pp       Raw data (ASCII) file
cb6896pp       Introductory material of the 1996 NES codebook
cb6896pp.appd  Codebook appendices except Appendix G