22,450 rated or chosen profiles from 2,245 respondents, in up to 5 tasks of 2 profiles varying on 6 attributes.

About this table

Description	Taiwanese respondents (n = 2,245) each saw 5 pairs of hypothetical politicians with randomized gender, party, education, past meetings with senior Chinese and US officials and stance on the 1992 Consensus, and chose which (if either) they preferred as a defender of national security.
Reference	Pan, H.-H., & Kagotani, K. (forthcoming). Diplomatic visits and image-building: A conjoint analysis in Taiwan. Asian Survey.
Licence	CC0 1.0
Source data	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HMRB9N

Notes

Conjoint table (irw_conjoint). choice: which of two politicians the respondent prefers as a national security defender (paraphrase; questionnaire not deposited); an opt-out is inferred from the data (both profiles never chosen; 5,105 of 11,225 tasks with neither chosen, choice = 0 on both). Attribute levels are the deposit's English value labels; respondents saw Traditional Chinese. Covariates are the authors' coarsened versions (born before 1978, college, residence in the 6 capitals, perceived relations).

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	2,245
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)	22,450
Tasks per respondent (most)	5
Profiles per task	2
Attributes	6
Tasks with no profile chosen	5,105

Design

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

Outcomes:

choice	Which of these two politicians would you prefer as a defender of Taiwan's national security? (paraphrase) [choice, opt-out allowed]

Columns

attr_cross_strait_policyattr_educationattr_genderattr_met_china_officialsattr_met_us_officialsattr_partychoicecov_born_before_1978cov_collegecov_cross_strait_relationscov_gendercov_residencecov_us_taiwan_relationsidprofiletask

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("pan_2025_diplomatic_visits", source = "conj")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("pan_2025_diplomatic_visits", source="conj")

How to cite

@misc{https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/hmrb9n,
  doi = {10.7910/DVN/HMRB9N},
  url = {https://dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/HMRB9N},
  author = {Pan, Hsin-Hsin and Kagotani, Koji},
  keywords = {Social Sciences, Taiwan, diplomatic visits, national security, image-building, conjoint analysis},
  title = {Replication Data for: Diplomatic Visits and Image-Building: A Conjoint Analysis in Taiwan},
  publisher = {Harvard Dataverse},
  year = {2025}
}

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