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I am currently looking for datasets that I can use to predict how an individual voter will vote in a US election.

Ideally, the dataset that I am looking for includes socioeconomic features such as age, sex, income, county, and include an outcome variable for the party/candidate that this person cast their vote for.

Given that voting is highly confidential, it has been hard to really find such data - though I'm wondering if anyone on CrossValidated knows of anything out there or knows of a different dataset that I could use to predict how a particular individual will vote.

Berk U.
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  • This is not the right forum for this question. Try http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/37195/data – dimitriy May 10 '13 at 23:58
  • @DimitriyV.Masterov The Data Q&A site would be a very good fit but it is not open yet. Our only options right now seems to be (1) answer the question here (2) close/delete it entirely – Gala May 11 '13 at 10:53

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American National Election Studies

Annenberg Election Surveys

ICPSR Various exit polls

For ICPSR, you need a university affiliation, I think. The general social survey also has voting questions, google it.

Bill
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  • Thank you! Ended up going with this http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/29182?permit%5B0%5D=AVAILABLE&q=exit+polls&paging.rows=25&sortBy=7 – Berk U. May 11 '13 at 15:50
  • The (US) General Social Survey is available from public sources. No university affiliation needed. Hey, this is an election year (2016) with some rather interesting "correlates" , er, did I misspell "candidates". – DWin May 20 '16 at 23:32