This file helps explain the survey results in "votedata.xls."

The results are splitted into 7 worksheets. The first 5 worksheets were all collected through SurveyMonkey but were recruited from several sources.  We used labels to separate these (and dates in some cases).  The sixth sheet was collected through a Mechanical Turk interface, and the seventh sheet was collected using Qualtrix.


The following key explains the first five sheets and most of sheet seven (six is self explanatory):

Column A-K:
The names of the candidates, with their party label (r for Republican, d for Democrat and l for Liberal/Independent) and the rating by each participant. Note that blank cells indicate "no rating", which is different from a rating of 0.

Column L and the rest:
Additional information provided by participants. 

The "id" column for Survey Monkey results indicate duplicate IP addresses. Duplicate IPs have the same id number. We did not remove duplicate IPs since different persons may be using the same computer.

Keys to the other columns:

Age:
1: 17 or younger
2: 18-20
3: 21-29
4: 30-39
5: 40-49
6: 50-59
7: 60 or older

Gender
1: Male
2: Female

Race
1: White
2: Black or Afrcan-American
3: American Indian or Alaskan Native
4: Asian
5: Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
6: From multiple races
7: some other race

Hispanic
1: I am not Spanish, Hispanic or Latino
2: Mexican
3: Mexican-American
4: Chicano
5: Puerto Rican
6: Cuban
7: Cuban-American
8: Some other Spanich, Hispanic or Latino group
9: From multiple Spanich, Hispanic or Latino group.

Registered
1: Registered in state where I live
2: Not registered in state where I live
3: Not registered - Live in North Dakota

Party
1: Republican
2: Democrat
3: Neither