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Replication Data for: How to survey about electoral turnout? The efficacy of the face-saving response items in 19 different contexts

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Title Replication Data for: How to survey about electoral turnout? The efficacy of the face-saving response items in 19 different contexts
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/B0NY7Y
 
Creator Morin-Chassé, Alexandre
Bol, Damien
Stephenson, Laura
Labbé St-Vincent, Simon
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Researchers studying electoral participation often rely on post-election surveys. However, the reported turnout rate is usually much higher in survey samples than in reality. Survey methodology research has shown that offering abstainers the opportunity to use face-saving response options succeeds at reducing overreporting by a range of 4 to 8 percentage points. This finding rests on survey experiments conducted in the United States after national elections. We offer a test of the efficacy of the face-saving response items through a series of wording experiments embedded in 19 post-election surveys in Europe and Canada, at four different levels of government. With greater variation in contexts, our analyses reveal a distribution of effect sizes ranging from null to minus 18 percentage points.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Voter turnout
Election
Survey experiment
 
Contributor Morin-Chassé, Alexandre