The 2020 Annenberg Institutions of Democracy (AIOD) Panel Dataset, the source for the analyses in the 2023 book “Democracy Amid Crises,” is now available to scholars to analyze. The data consists of 8 waves of panel data tracking the opinions of residents of four key battleground states — Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — during the 2020 election and its aftermath (April 2020–February 2021). The panelists in each state are a representative sample of that state; samples were drawn via address-based sampling conducted by SSRS. Panelists completed the surveys online, with the exception of a small number of panelists who preferred to take them over the telephone.
We had 11,688 respondents complete wave 1 of our study. Respondents were invited to take future waves, though not every respondent takes every wave; please see the codebook for more details.
The interviews take place between April 2020 and February 2021. The study focuses on the events of that period, focusing on the 2020 election campaign. These include respondents’ media consumption, their perceptions of, and experiences during, the COVID-19 pandemic, their view of the economy, their views on the debate over race and policing sparked by the death of George Floyd, and their perceptions of the legitimacy of the 2020 election (and much more, as well).
The data that are available to researchers are the data that underlies the analysis in “Democracy Amid Crises,” published in 2023 by Oxford University Press. More detail on the design of the study are available in “Democracy Amid Crises,” especially in the online appendix to the book.
For more information and instructions on how to access the dataset, click here.
