1,831 rated or chosen profiles from 731 respondents, in up to 5 tasks of 1 profile varying on 3 attributes.

About this table

Description	Rhode Island registered voters (731 after the authors' filters) voted yes or no on hypothetical state bonds on ballots of 1, 3 or 5 bonds; bond type, price ($20-500 million) and ballot size were varied. One yes/no vote per bond seen, 1,831 votes.
Reference	Bechard, A., Lang, C., & Pearson-Merkowitz, S. (2024). Voter approval of bond referendums: The role of bond amount and ballot characteristics. State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 24(1), 53-76.
DOI	10.1017/spq.2023.26
Licence	CC0 1.0
Source data	https://doi.org/10.15139/S3/TDPLWQ

Notes

Conjoint table (irw_conjoint_2). Single-profile vote: each bond seen on a hypothetical Rhode Island ballot of 1, 3 or 5 bonds gets a yes/no vote (choice; a no is the opt-out). Attributes are bond type, price in millions of dollars and ballot size; ballot position is kept raw in trial_order_code because the source repeats positions. The authors' sample filters are applied (731 of 851 respondents); the paper's N was not checked.

These notes describe the source data, which the IRW reproduces as released. All notes are listed on the Data Notes page.

Size and shape

Respondents	731
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)	1,831
Tasks per respondent (most)	5
Profiles per task	1
Attributes	3
Tasks with no profile chosen	445

Design

Topic	tax welfare economy
A profile represents	policy
Country	US
Language shown	en
Language of stored levels	en
Randomization restrictions	unknown
Task order	inferred from row order
Profile position	recorded in the deposit

Task order or profile position was rebuilt from row order; analyses of position or task order should leave it out.

Outcomes:

choice	Vote yes or no on this bond (paraphrase) [choice, opt-out allowed]

Columns

attr_ballot_sizeattr_bond_typeattr_pricechoicecov_age_groupcov_duration_seccov_education_yearscov_gendercov_govt_trust_codecov_hispaniccov_home_owncov_party_idcov_vote_frequency_codeidprofiletasktrial_order_code

The layout (one row per respondent, task and profile; choice/rating outcomes; attr_ columns holding each attribute level as displayed) is defined in the IRW conjoint standard. What the outcomes asked is under Design above.

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# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("bechard_2024_bond_referendums", source = "conj")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("bechard_2024_bond_referendums", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Bechard_2024, title={Voter Approval of Bond Referendums: The Role of Bond Amount and Ballot Characteristics}, volume={24}, ISSN={1946-1607}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/spq.2023.26}, DOI={10.1017/spq.2023.26}, number={1}, journal={State Politics &amp; Policy Quarterly}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Bechard, Andrew and Lang, Corey and Pearson-Merkowitz, Shanna}, year={2024}, month=Jan, pages={53–76} }

Version and provenance

IRW version	v584
Redivis dataset	irw_conjoint_2 v1.4
Redivis dataset DOI	10.57761/hk97-wv30
Manifest pin for this IRW version	v1.4
Metadata source	irw_meta v44.0