20,000 rated or chosen profiles from 1,000 respondents, in up to 10 tasks of 2 profiles varying on 8 attributes.

One of 3 tables from the same source; this one is the public_oct table. The others are listed under Related tables.

About this table

Description	US adults (YouGov matched sample, October 2018) chose between two hypothetical candidates in 10 pairs varying name (signalling race and gender), party, and six platform statements on voter-ID laws, investigations, compromise, courts, discrimination and taxes. 1,000 respondents; binary choice; YouGov weight included. Appendix replication sample.
Reference	Carey, J., Clayton, K., Helmke, G., Nyhan, B., Sanders, M., & Stokes, S. (2020). Who will defend democracy? Evaluating tradeoffs in candidate support among partisan donors and voters. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.
DOI	10.1080/17457289.2020.1790577
Licence	CC0 1.0
Source data	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MRWYC2

Notes

Conjoint table (irw_conjoint). choice: which of two candidates the respondent supports (YouGov 'Conjoint screen <k> candidate choice'; wording not in the codebook), no opt-out. Candidate race and gender are shown only through names. YouGov weight in cov_survey_weight. October 2018 appendix sample; the authors drop insincere respondents (cov_take_serious).

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	1,000
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)	20,000
Tasks per respondent (most)	10
Profiles per task	2
Attributes	8
Tasks with no profile chosen	0

Design

Topic	candidate choice
A profile represents	person
Country	US
Language shown	en
Language of stored levels	en
Randomization restrictions	unknown
Task order	recorded in the deposit
Profile position	recorded in the deposit

Outcomes:

choice	Which of the two candidates would you be more likely to support? (paraphrase) [choice, forced]

Columns

attr_compromiseattr_courtsattr_discriminationattr_electionsattr_investigationsattr_nameattr_partyattr_taxeschoicecov_agecov_educationcov_gendercov_ideologycov_party_idcov_party_id7cov_political_interestcov_statecov_survey_weightcov_take_seriouscov_trump_approvalidprofiletask

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.

Get the data

Download CSVno account needed Browse on Redivisexplore and query Croissant metadataHugging Face, Kaggle, OpenML

Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("carey_2020_democracy_public_oct", source = "conj")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("carey_2020_democracy_public_oct", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Carey_2020, title={Who will defend democracy? Evaluating tradeoffs in candidate support among partisan donors and voters}, volume={32}, ISSN={1745-7297}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2020.1790577}, DOI={10.1080/17457289.2020.1790577}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Carey, John and Clayton, Katherine and Helmke, Gretchen and Nyhan, Brendan and Sanders, Mitchell and Stokes, Susan}, year={2020}, month=July, pages={230–245} }

Version and provenance

IRW version	v584
Redivis dataset	irw_conjoint v4.2
Redivis dataset DOI	10.57761/qkye-q530
Manifest pin for this IRW version	v4.2
Metadata source	irw_meta v44.0