11,925 rated or chosen profiles from 1,528 respondents, in up to 4 tasks of 2 profiles varying on 10 attributes.

About this table

Description	Colombian online respondents (October 2019; 1,589 in the deposit, 1,528 who answered at least one task) chose in 4 tasks between two hypothetical candidates who were former combatants accused of violence against civilians (age, gender, education, recruitment, reputation, military success, crime, victims, involvement, attitude) and rated each 1-5 on likelihood of voting for them.
Reference	Levy, G. (2022). Evaluations of violence at the polls: Civilian victimization and support for perpetrators after war. The Journal of Politics, 84(2), 783-797.
DOI	10.1086/715248
Licence	CC0 1.0
Source data	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0Y1E2B

Notes

Conjoint table (irw_conjoint). choice: '¿Si tuviera que elegir, por cuál de los dos candidatos votaría?' forced choice (NA where the task was skipped); rating: likelihood of voting for candidate A/B, 1 muy improbable to 5 muy probable. Levels in Spanish as displayed (from the codebook). Attribute order fixed. Rows with no answer omitted (1,528 of 1,589 respondents remain); the author's rescaled rating dropped.

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	1,528
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)	11,925
Tasks per respondent (most)	4
Profiles per task	2
Attributes	10
Tasks with no profile chosen	0

Design

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

Outcomes:

choice	¿Si tuviera que elegir, por cuál de los dos candidatos votaría? [choice, forced]
rating	¿En una escala del 1 a 5, donde 1 es "muy improbable" y 5 es "muy probable," ¿qué tan probable es que usted vote por el/la candidato/a A [B]? [rating, 1 (muy improbable) to 5 (muy probable)]

Columns

attr_ageattr_attitudeattr_crimeattr_crime_targetattr_educationattr_genderattr_involvementattr_military_successattr_recruitmentattr_reputationchoicecov_birth_yearcov_economiccov_educationcov_gendercov_ideologycov_incomecov_peace_vote_2016cov_urbanidprofileratingtask

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

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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("levy_2022_perpetrator_candidates", source = "conj")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("levy_2022_perpetrator_candidates", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Levy_2022, title={Evaluations of Violence at the Polls: Civilian Victimization and Support for Perpetrators after War}, volume={84}, ISSN={1468-2508}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/715248}, DOI={10.1086/715248}, number={2}, journal={The Journal of Politics}, publisher={University of Chicago Press}, author={Levy, Gabriella}, year={2022}, month=Apr, pages={783–797} }

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