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This survey is based on 3,215 interviews of registered voters conducted by YouGov. The sample was weighted according to age, sex, race, education, urban/rural status, partisanship, marital status, and Census region to be nationally representative of 2018 voters according to Catalist, and to a post-election correction consisting of the national two-party vote share. Respondents were selected from YouGov and other opt-in panels to be representative of registered voters. The weights range from 0.28 to 4.6, with a mean of 1 and a standard deviation of 0.53.

The survey dataset includes measures of political participation such as activism, group consciousness, and vote choice. It also includes measures of interest including items from a hostile sexism battery, racial resentment, fear of demographic change, fear of cultural change, and a variety of policy positions. It includes a rich demographic battery of items like age, race, ethnicity, sex, party identification, income, education, and US state. Please see the attached codebook for a full description and coding of the variables in this survey, as well as the toplines for breakdowns of some of the key variables.

The dataset also includes recodes to scale the hostile sexism items to a 0-1 scale of hostile sexism, the racial animus items to a 0-1 scale of racial animus, and the demographic change items to a 0-1 scale of fear of demographic change. See the codebook for more details. We created a two-way vote choice variable to capture Democrat/Republican voting by imputing the vote choice of undecided respondents based on a Catalist partisanship model for those respondents, who comprised about 5% of the sample.

To explore the data we have embedded a Crunchbox, which you can use to easily make crosstabs and charts of the data. Here, you can click around many of the political and demographic items and look around for interesting trends to explore.

The raw data, codebook, and toplines are available for download below.

raw data

codebook

toplines

For questions about the survey coding, please email john.ray@yougov.com with the subject line "Question about Data for Progress 2018 survey."

The toplines are also embedded below

Age (5 category) pct
18-29 9.8%
30-39 12.2%
40-49 14.2%
50-64 32.3%
65+ 31.4%
Gender pct
Male 46.1%
Female 53.9%
Race (4 category) pct
White 77.9%
Black 11.2%
Hispanic 5.8%
Other 5.1%
Hispanic pct
Yes 7.7%
No 92.3%
Education (2 category) pct
Less than college 63.9%
College 36.1%
Party ID (3 category) pct
Democrat 35.8%
Republican 30%
Independent 27.2%
Other 5.9%
Not sure 1.1%
Ideology (5 category) pct
Very liberal 15.4%
Liberal 17.5%
Moderate 24.7%
Conservative 23.7%
Very conservative 15.9%
Not sure 2.8%
House 2018 vote threeway pct
Democrat 50.8%
Republican 43.5%
Undecided/Other 5.8%
Family income pct
Less than $10,000 3%
$10,000 - $19,999 7%
$20,000 - $29,999 8.5%
$30,000 - $39,999 9.2%
$40,000 - $49,999 8.9%
$50,000 - $59,999 9%
$60,000 - $69,999 7.2%
$70,000 - $79,999 7.5%
$80,000 - $99,999 8.2%
$100,000 - $119,999 6.7%
$120,000 - $149,999 5.6%
$150,000 - $199,999 3.5%
$200,000 - $249,999 1.5%
$250,000 - $349,999 0.7%
$350,000 - $499,999 0.3%
$500,000 or more 0.4%
Prefer not to say 13%
Born Again (Pew version) pct
Yes 29.7%
No 70.3%
Religion pct
Protestant 40.7%
Roman Catholic 19.8%
Mormon 1.5%
Eastern or Greek Orthodox 0.2%
Jewish 3.1%
Muslim 0.4%
Buddhist 0.8%
Hindu 0.1%
Atheist 6.8%
Agnostic 6.8%
Nothing in particular 15.3%
Something else 4.4%
Automatic Voter Registration pct
Strongly support 42.1%
Somewhat support 16.8%
Neither support nor oppose 11%
Somewhat oppose 8.7%
Strongly oppose 18.5%
Not sure 2.9%
Support or Oppose Ending Cash Bail pct
Strongly support 22.4%
Somewhat support 25.3%
Neither support nor oppose 16.4%
Somewhat oppose 12.5%
Strongly oppose 13.1%
Not sure 10.3%
Savings Accounts at Birth pct
Strongly support 21.7%
Somewhat support 14.6%
Neither support nor oppose 14%
Somewhat oppose 9.8%
Strongly oppose 33.8%
Not sure 6.2%
Increase Border Security pct
Strongly support 39.2%
Somewhat support 8.8%
Neither support nor oppose 6.5%
Somewhat oppose 7.7%
Strongly oppose 36.2%
Don’t know 1.5%
Raise Taxes on High Income for Tuition pct
Strongly support 30%
Somewhat support 18.7%
Neither support nor oppose 9.8%
Somewhat oppose 9.8%
Strongly oppose 27.5%
Not sure 4.2%
Green Energy Infrastructure Jobs pct
Strongly support 38%
Somewhat support 28%
Neither support nor oppose 15.2%
Somewhat oppose 4.7%
Strongly oppose 7.6%
Not sure 6.6%
View on Gun Regulations pct
It should be more difficult to buy all types of guns 35.8%
It should be more difficult to buy some types of guns 23.9%
The current regulations regarding the purchase of guns are about right 23.7%
It should be less difficult to buy some types of guns 4.9%
It should be less difficult to buy all types of guns 8.9%
Not sure 2.8%
Support or Oppose Defunding ICE pct
Strongly support 13.9%
Somewhat support 11.4%
Neither support nor oppose 14.8%
Somewhat oppose 11.6%
Strongly oppose 42.3%
Not sure 5.9%
Medicare for All Americans pct
Strongly support 32.9%
Somewhat support 15.8%
Neither support nor oppose 10.3%
Somewhat oppose 7.4%
Strongly oppose 28.7%
Not sure 4.9%
Marijuana Revenue Reinvestment pct
Strongly support 27.2%
Somewhat support 28%
Neither support nor oppose 22.2%
Somewhat oppose 6.7%
Strongly oppose 7.6%
Not sure 8.4%
Fully Legalizing Marijuana pct
Strongly support 40.7%
Somewhat support 16.4%
Neither support nor oppose 10.9%
Somewhat oppose 7.9%
Strongly oppose 21.6%
Not sure 2.5%
Pollution Fees on Companies pct
Strongly support 46.2%
Somewhat support 19.7%
Neither support nor oppose 12.1%
Somewhat oppose 7%
Strongly oppose 11.2%
Not sure 3.9%
Generic Life-Saving Drugs pct
Strongly support 33.7%
Somewhat support 23.6%
Neither support nor oppose 12.7%
Somewhat oppose 11.1%
Strongly oppose 10.6%
Not sure 8.4%
Public Internet Utility pct
Strongly support 31.7%
Somewhat support 28%
Neither support nor oppose 17.5%
Somewhat oppose 6.1%
Strongly oppose 9.4%
Not sure 7.3%
Ending Solitary Confinement pct
Strongly support 17.1%
Somewhat support 15.6%
Neither support nor oppose 22.8%
Somewhat oppose 17.3%
Strongly oppose 18.5%
Not sure 8.7%
Ending Involvement in Yemen pct
Strongly support 29.2%
Somewhat support 22.2%
Neither support nor oppose 17.9%
Somewhat oppose 11.2%
Strongly oppose 8.3%
Not sure 11.2%
How Deserving Are Poor Poeple pct
A lot more money than they deserve 1.3%
Somewhat more money than they deserve 1.3%
Slightly more money than they deserve 2%
About the right amount of money 22.6%
Slightly less money than they deserve 13.8%
Somewhat less money than they deserve 20.7%
A lot less money than they deserve 38.3%
How Deserving Are Rich Poeple pct
A lot more money than they deserve 38%
Somewhat more money than they deserve 15.9%
Slightly more money than they deserve 9.6%
About the right amount of money 33.2%
Slightly less money than they deserve 0.9%
Somewhat less money than they deserve 0.8%
A lot less money than they deserve 1.7%
Generations of Slavery and Discrimination pct
Strongly agree 22.1%
Somewhat agree 20.7%
Neither agree nor disagree 10.1%
Somewhat disagree 16.3%
Strongly disagree 29.1%
No opinion 1.8%
Minorities Overcame Prejudice pct
Strongly agree 29.9%
Somewhat agree 20.9%
Neither agree nor disagree 14.3%
Somewhat disagree 14%
Strongly disagree 17.4%
No opinion 3.5%
White People Advantages pct
Strongly agree 31.9%
Somewhat agree 20.4%
Neither agree nor disagree 13.2%
Somewhat disagree 12.8%
Strongly disagree 20.3%
No opinion 1.5%
Racial Problems Are Rare pct
Strongly agree 5.9%
Somewhat agree 14.4%
Neither agree nor disagree 12.2%
Somewhat disagree 25.7%
Strongly disagree 40.2%
No opinion 1.5%
Angry Racism Exists pct
Strongly agree 60.6%
Somewhat agree 21.3%
Neither agree nor disagree 12.4%
Somewhat disagree 1.6%
Strongly disagree 2%
No opinion 2.1%
Importance of Race to Identity pct
Very important 24.1%
Somewhat important 27.8%
Not very important 29%
Not at all important 19.1%
Linked Fate pct
Strongly agree 16.4%
Somewhat agree 34.4%
Neither agree nor disagree 35.8%
Somewhat disagree 7.8%
Strongly disagree 5.5%
Financially Prepared for the Unexpected pct
Yes, definitely 51.3%
Yes, probably 18.6%
Not sure 6.3%
No, probably not 9.8%
No, definitely not 14%
Newcomers Threaten Traditional Customs and Values pct
Strongly agree 22.6%
Somewhat agree 19.2%
Neither agree nor disagree 13.2%
Somewhat disagree 11.8%
Strongly disagree 31.5%
Not sure 1.7%
Bothered By Contact With Immigrants pct
Strongly agree 18%
Somewhat agree 24.5%
Neither agree nor disagree 16.2%
Somewhat disagree 14.6%
Strongly disagree 25.6%
Not sure 1.1%
Many Different Cultures - Enriched by Exposure pct
Strongly agree 34.5%
Somewhat agree 28.7%
Neither agree nor disagree 18.8%
Somewhat disagree 9.4%
Strongly disagree 6.2%
Not sure 2.3%
Many Different Cultures - Strain on Services pct
Strongly agree 24.2%
Somewhat agree 20%
Neither agree nor disagree 21.3%
Somewhat disagree 12.2%
Strongly disagree 18.5%
Not sure 3.8%
Many Different Cultures - Strain on Jobs pct
Strongly agree 13%
Somewhat agree 17%
Neither agree nor disagree 23.3%
Somewhat disagree 20.8%
Strongly disagree 21.9%
Not sure 4%
Tax on Wealth Over 100 Million Dollars pct
Strongly support 53%
Somewhat support 14.9%
Neither support nor oppose 9.2%
Somewhat oppose 5.9%
Strongly oppose 14%
Not sure 3.1%
Confederate Flag pct
The Confederate flag is mostly a symbol of slavery and white supremacy 43.7%
The Confederate flag is mostly a symbol of Southern heritage and culture 48.2%
Don’t know 8.2%
Provide a Path to Citizenship pct
Strongly support 13.2%
Somewhat support 27.1%
Neither support nor oppose 20.8%
Somewhat oppose 13.6%
Strongly oppose 18.7%
Don’t know 6.6%
Deport Undocumented Immigrants pct
Strongly support 35.9%
Somewhat support 17.7%
Neither support nor oppose 13.9%
Somewhat oppose 14.1%
Strongly oppose 16.1%
Don’t know 2.3%
Offensive Remarks pct
Strongly agree 9.8%
Somewhat agree 24%
Neither agree nor disagree 19.8%
Somewhat disagree 18.5%
Strongly disagree 25.2%
Don’t know 2.8%
Too Easily Offended pct
Strongly agree 12%
Somewhat agree 24.1%
Neither agree nor disagree 19.7%
Somewhat disagree 14.6%
Strongly disagree 27.8%
Don’t know 1.9%
Women Fail To Appreciate pct
Strongly agree 7.6%
Somewhat agree 15.3%
Neither agree nor disagree 23.3%
Somewhat disagree 16.9%
Strongly disagree 34.9%
Don’t know 2%
Rich Control Both Political Parties pct
Strongly agree 11.5%
Somewhat agree 28.2%
Neither agree nor disagree 14.7%
Somewhat disagree 20.6%
Strongly disagree 23.5%
Not sure 1.6%
System is Stacked Against Me pct
Strongly agree 10.1%
Somewhat agree 24.1%
Neither agree nor disagree 26.3%
Somewhat disagree 18.6%
Strongly disagree 19.1%
Not sure 1.8%
Trust Wisdom of Ordinary People pct
Strongly agree 12.7%
Somewhat agree 25.2%
Neither agree nor disagree 25.5%
Somewhat disagree 20.6%
Strongly disagree 13.8%
Not sure 2.2%
Political Corretcness pct
The way people talk needs to change a lot 19.3%
The way people talk needs to change a little 19.7%
People are a little too easily offended 16.3%
People are much too easily offended 44.7%
What Percent of Neighborhood is Democratic pct
0 0.8%
1 0.8%
2 0.4%
3 0.2%
4 0%
5 1.9%
6 0%
7 0%
8 0.1%
9 0%
10 4.4%
12 0.1%
14 0.1%
15 1.5%
18 0%
19 0%
20 5.8%
21 0.1%
23 0%
25 4.3%
27 0%
28 0%
30 6.5%
32 0.1%
33 0.5%
34 0%
35 3.4%
36 0.1%
37 0.1%
38 0.2%
39 0.2%
40 10.3%
42 0.2%
43 0.1%
44 0.1%
45 3.1%
46 0.2%
47 0.2%
48 0.1%
49 0.1%
50 18.1%
51 0.2%
52 0.1%
53 0%
54 0.1%
55 1.7%
56 0.4%
57 0%
58 0%
59 0.2%
60 8%
62 0%
65 2.8%
66 0.1%
67 0.2%
68 0%
69 0%
70 4.8%
75 5.7%
77 0%
78 0.2%
79 0%
80 4.1%
81 0%
85 1.4%
88 0%
89 0.1%
90 2.3%
92 0.1%
93 0.1%
95 0.9%
96 0%
97 0%
98 0.4%
99 0.4%
100 1.2%
Sources of News Information pct
CNN 7%
Fox News 8.6%
MSNBC 5.5%
Other Cable News TV Networks 5.1%
Local TV News 13.5%
National nightly network TV news 6.3%
News websites or apps 10.3%
Your local daily print newspaper 6.4%
National print newspapers 3.2%
News on the radio 9%
Late night comedy shows 3.1%
Facebook 10.2%
Twitter 3.6%
Reddit 1.2%
YouTube 3.7%
Other social media such as LinkedIn, Instagram, or Snapchat 2.1%
None of these 1.2%