horiuchi_2018_japan_manifestos

19,364 rated or chosen profiles from 1,951 respondents, in up to 5 tasks of 2 profiles varying on 9 attributes.

About this table

DescriptionJapanese adults (Research Now online panel, December 2014, before the House of Representatives election; 1,951 respondents) chose which of two hypothetical parties they would support over 5 pairs of manifestos built from the real parties' positions on 9 policy issues (consumption tax, employment, monetary/fiscal policy, growth strategy, nuclear restart, TPP, collective self-defense, constitutional revision, seat reduction).
ReferenceHoriuchi, Y., Smith, D. M., & Yamamoto, T. (2018). Measuring voters' multidimensional policy preferences with conjoint analysis: Application to Japan's 2014 election. Political Analysis, 26(2), 190-209.
DOI10.1017/pan.2018.2
LicenceCC0 1.0
Source datahttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KUMMUJ

Notes

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Size and shape

Respondents1,951
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)19,364
Tasks per respondent (most)5
Profiles per task2
Attributes9
Tasks with no profile chosen0

Design

Topicparties platforms
A profile representsorganisation
CountryJP
Language shownja
Language of stored levelsja
Randomization restrictionsunknown
Task orderrecorded in the deposit
Profile positionrecorded in the deposit

Outcomes:

choiceSuppose that the following two parties were nominating candidates in this general election. Which party would you support? Even if you are not entirely sure, please indicate which of the two you would dare to support. (translated) [choice, forced]

Columns

attr_collective_self_defenseattr_constitutionattr_consumption_taxattr_employmentattr_growth_strategyattr_monetary_fiscalattr_nuclear_restartattr_seat_reductionattr_tppattrpos_collective_self_defenseattrpos_constitutionattrpos_consumption_taxattrpos_employmentattrpos_growth_strategyattrpos_monetary_fiscalattrpos_nuclear_restartattrpos_seat_reductionattrpos_tppchoicecov_abe_approvalcov_agecov_educationcov_employmentcov_gendercov_incomecov_left_rightcov_party_idcov_pr_votecov_prefecturecov_smd_votecov_turnout_historyidprofiletask

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("horiuchi_2018_japan_manifestos", source = "conj")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("horiuchi_2018_japan_manifestos", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Horiuchi_2018, title={Measuring Voters’ Multidimensional Policy Preferences with Conjoint Analysis: Application to Japan’s 2014 Election}, volume={26}, ISSN={1476-4989}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pan.2018.2}, DOI={10.1017/pan.2018.2}, number={2}, journal={Political Analysis}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Horiuchi, Yusaku and Smith, Daniel M. and Yamamoto, Teppei}, year={2018}, month=Mar, pages={190–209} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv584
Redivis datasetirw_conjoint v4.2
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/qkye-q530
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv4.2
Metadata sourceirw_meta v44.0