horiuchi_2022_sdb_candidates

44,180 rated or chosen profiles from 2,209 respondents, in up to 10 tasks of 2 profiles varying on 8 attributes.

One of 2 tables from the same source; this one is the candidates table. The others are listed under Related tables.

About this table

Description2,209 US Prolific respondents (December 2020) each rated 10 pairs of hypothetical congressional candidates from their own party on a 7-point vote-likelihood scale; 8 attributes including a sexual-harassment scandal, under fully or partially randomized designs.
ReferenceHoriuchi, Y., Markovich, Z., & Yamamoto, T. (2022). Does conjoint analysis mitigate social desirability bias? Political Analysis, 30(4), 535-549.
DOI10.1017/pan.2021.30
LicenceCC0 1.0
Source datahttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4WDVDB

Notes

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

Size and shape

Respondents2,209
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)44,180
Tasks per respondent (most)10
Profiles per task2
Attributes8

Design

Topiccandidate choice
A profile representsperson
CountryUS
Language shownen
Language of stored levelsen
Randomization restrictionsyes (stated by the source): unchanged
Task orderrecorded in the deposit
Profile positionrecorded in the deposit

Because the attribute levels were not randomized independently, an estimator has to account for the restriction; a plain difference in means across levels can mislead.

Outcomes:

ratingHow likely or unlikely do you think you would be to vote for each candidate from the [Democratic/Republican] Party instead of the candidate from the [Republican/Democratic] Party in each of the two elections? [rating, 1 (Very Unlikely) to 7 (Very Likely)]

Columns

attr_ageattr_genderattr_past_political_experienceattr_previous_professionattr_raceattr_residencyattr_scandalattr_undergraduate_degreeattrpos_ageattrpos_genderattrpos_past_political_experienceattrpos_previous_professionattrpos_raceattrpos_residencyattrpos_scandalattrpos_undergraduate_degreecov_age_groupcov_attention_pass_1cov_attention_pass_2cov_dem_strengthcov_educationcov_gendercov_ideologycov_incomecov_party_idcov_party_leancov_racecov_rep_strengthidprofileratingtasktrial_candidate_partytrial_designtrial_prime

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 neededBrowse on Redivisexplore and queryCroissant 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("horiuchi_2022_sdb_candidates", source = "conj")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("horiuchi_2022_sdb_candidates", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Horiuchi_2021, title={Does Conjoint Analysis Mitigate Social Desirability Bias?}, volume={30}, ISSN={1476-4989}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pan.2021.30}, DOI={10.1017/pan.2021.30}, number={4}, journal={Political Analysis}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Horiuchi, Yusaku and Markovich, Zachary and Yamamoto, Teppei}, year={2021}, month=Sept, pages={535–549} }

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