Cluster-randomized experiment data on voter turnout in cable system markets
Source:R/data.R
GV_data.RdThis dataset is a toy example derived from a cluster-randomized field experiment that evaluates the effect of “Rock the Vote” TV advertisements on voter turnout rate. The original study included 23,869 first-time voters across 85 cable television markets in 12 states. These markets were grouped into matched sets based on their past voter turnout rates and then randomly assigned to either a treatment or control condition. This toy dataset is constructed by randomly sampling 10% of individuals from selected cable television markets in the original dataset.
Format
A data.frame with 248 rows and 7 columns.
age Age of participant
vote_04 Outcome variable indicating whether participant voted
tv_company Cable system serving participant's residential area
treatment Binary variable denoting treatment assignment
pairs A numeric indicator for the strata or matched pair group to which a cable system belongs (1-3)
population_size Total population size of residential area served by cable system
sample_size Number of individuals sampled from the cable system cluster
Details
The original dataset was drawn from a randomized controlled trial in which 85 cable system areas were first grouped into 40 matched sets based on historical voter turnout. Within each matched set, one cable system area was randomly assigned to the treatment condition, while the others served as controls.
This toy dataset includes a subset of the original replication data, specifically individuals from matched sets 1–3, which encompass 7 of the 85 cable system areas. Within these selected clusters, a 10% random sample of individuals was taken.
The fuller Green-Vavreck dataset that this derives from bears a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license (v3.0) and is housed in Yale University's Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ID: D005).