kellstedt_2017_info_source_use

15,056 responses from 1,085 respondents to 14 items.

One of 13 tables from the same source; this one measures Information source use. The others are listed under Related tables.

About this table

DescriptionUse of 14 information sources on these issues (newspapers, TV, radio, internet, scientific research, government agencies, interest groups, personal experience...), 0 never - 10 very often; 2004 US national telephone survey, N = 1,093 adults; cov_gender, cov_age, cov_education, cov_ideology, cov_income.
ReferenceKellstedt, P. M., Ramirez, M. D., Vedlitz, A., & Zahran, S. (2019). Does political sophistication minimize value conflict? Evidence from a heteroskedastic graded IRT model of opinions toward climate change. British Journal of Political Science, 49(4), 1309-1332. Replication data: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SRC9HN
DOI10.1017/S0007123416000600
LicenceCC0 1.0
Source datahttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SRC9HN

Size and shape

Responses15,056
Respondents1,085
Items14
Response categories11
Responses per respondent13.876
Responses per item1075.429
Density0.991
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

age rangeAdult (18+)
sampleGeneral/non-specific
construct typeBehavioral
measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)eng
construct nameInformation source use

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, kellstedt_2017_climate_survey.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

ColumnWhat it isSource column
IRW standard columns
idIRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).resp_num
itemIRW standard Item identifier.made in the build script
respIRW standard Response value.made in the build script
Respondent covariates
cov_ageCovariate q117
cov_educationCovariate q116
cov_genderCovariate gender
cov_ideologyCovariate q118
cov_incomeCovariate q122

What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.

Get the data

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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("kellstedt_2017_info_source_use")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("kellstedt_2017_info_source_use")

How to cite

@article{V_ssing_2017, title={Information Behavior and Political Preferences}, volume={49}, ISSN={1469-2112}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007123416000600}, DOI={10.1017/s0007123416000600}, number={2}, journal={British Journal of Political Science}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Vössing, Konstantin and Weber, Till}, year={2017}, month=Mar, pages={533–556} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv584
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_7 v1.1
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/7pd3-sh31
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv1.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v44.0