Mexican Election Panel Study: 2000 Presidential Campaign

2,400 adults participated in a national panel survey, with an additional 1,199 respondents in a post-electoral cross-section. The data tracks public opinion and voting behavior across five survey waves during the 2000 Mexican presidential campaign and after the July 2 election. It includes measures of media exposure, political knowledge, attitudes toward candidates and issues, and post-election voting validation.

Use Cases

• Analyzing campaign effects on voting intentions based on repeated panel surveys.
• Modeling the relationship between media exposure and political knowledge using survey items.
• Studying voter perceptions of electoral integrity based on post-election questions.
• Profiling demographic correlates of support for specific candidates and parties.

Strengths

• Uses a hybrid panel and cross-sectional design with five survey waves, providing temporal depth.
• Contains a substantial sample size with a panel of 2,400 adults and a supplementary cross-section of 1,199 respondents.
• Covers a wide range of political topics, including media, issues, candidates, and post-election validation.

Limitations

• Specific column names and the total row count are not provided in the available metadata.
• The exact date of the most recent update for the dataset is unknown.
• Relies on self-reported survey data, which may be subject to biases.

Provenance

Source

Chappell Lawson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Collection Method

Survey data collected via a national hybrid panel/cross-sectional design with five waves.

Time Range

February 19-27, 2000 to July 7-16, 2000

Geography

Mexico