2,000 rated or chosen profiles from 1,000 respondents, in up to 1 tasks of 2 profiles varying on 6 attributes.

About this table

Description	Swiss respondents (n = 1,000, German-language online survey) chose between two hypothetical male candidates varying name (Swiss or non-Swiss), profession, age, policy focus and number of children; in one arm a competence or political-office cue was added.
Reference	Portmann, L. (2022). What makes a successful candidate? Political experience and low-information cues in elections. The Journal of Politics, 84(4), 2049-2063.
DOI	10.1086/719638
Licence	CC0 1.0
Source data	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IZA24F

Notes

Conjoint table (irw_conjoint). choice = preferred candidate of two (codebook 'Dummy whether respondent prefers candidate'; wording not deposited), one task, no opt-out; trial_competence_arm = 1 adds a competence/political-office sentence (attr_competence), '(not shown)' in arm 0. Attribute text is the German Qualtrics field text (encoding repaired); the authors' recoded policy factor mislabels candidate 2 in 745 of 1,000 tasks and the raw fields are used instead. Survey Experiment 1 (fixed-pair 2 x 2 vignette, wording not deposited) is not built.

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	1,000
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)	2,000
Tasks per respondent (most)	1
Profiles per task	2
Attributes	6
Tasks with no profile chosen	0

Design

Topic	candidate choice
A profile represents	person
Country	CH
Language shown	de
Language of stored levels	de
Randomization restrictions	unknown
Task order	inferred from row order
Profile position	recorded in the deposit

Task order or profile position was rebuilt from row order; analyses of position or task order should leave it out.

Outcomes:

choice	unknown [choice, forced]

Columns

attr_ageattr_childrenattr_competenceattr_nameattr_policyattr_professionchoicecov_age_groupcov_cantoncov_educ3cov_finishedcov_gendercov_ideologyidprofiletasktrial_competence_arm

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("portmann_2022_candidate_cues", source = "conj")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("portmann_2022_candidate_cues", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Portmann_2022, title={What Makes a Successful Candidate? Political Experience and Low-Information Cues in Elections}, volume={84}, ISSN={1468-2508}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/719638}, DOI={10.1086/719638}, number={4}, journal={The Journal of Politics}, publisher={University of Chicago Press}, author={Portmann, Lea}, year={2022}, month=Oct, pages={2049–2063} }

Version and provenance

IRW version	v607
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 v47.0