{
  "alt": "Dot chart with three panels and interval lines, one for each item, with a row for each year and interview mode. All gaps are above zero. In the GSS household ownership panel the 2024 gap is {fact:mo_own_2024_ftf} points in person and {fact:mo_own_2024_web} on the web. In the GSS permit panel the 2024 gap is {fact:mo_perm_2024_ftf} points in person and {fact:mo_perm_2024_web} on the web. In the ANES panel the 2016 gap is {fact:mo_anes_2016_ftf} in person and {fact:mo_anes_2016_web} on the web.",
  "caption": "Every dot is to the right of zero, and in {fact:n_mode_pairs} web and in-person comparisons only the 2024 GSS permit gap differs by more than sampling error, by {fact:mo_perm_diff_2024} points. Dots are estimates and lines are 95% confidence intervals. The 2021 GSS survey was mostly web and has no in-person row; the 2018 GSS row is the last survey before the move to the web.",
  "data": [
    {
      "comparison": "2012 in person",
      "conf_high": 40.9511,
      "conf_low": 29.145,
      "estimate": 35.0481,
      "mode": "ftf",
      "n": 1805,
      "panel": "ANES: more difficult to buy (Democratic minus Republican)",
      "year": 2012
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2012 web",
      "conf_high": 42.0655,
      "conf_low": 33.6678,
      "estimate": 37.8666,
      "mode": "web",
      "n": 3280,
      "panel": "ANES: more difficult to buy (Democratic minus Republican)",
      "year": 2012
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2016 in person",
      "conf_high": 52.1384,
      "conf_low": 38.7332,
      "estimate": 45.4358,
      "mode": "ftf",
      "n": 1037,
      "panel": "ANES: more difficult to buy (Democratic minus Republican)",
      "year": 2016
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2016 web",
      "conf_high": 46.3087,
      "conf_low": 38.0331,
      "estimate": 42.1709,
      "mode": "web",
      "n": 2620,
      "panel": "ANES: more difficult to buy (Democratic minus Republican)",
      "year": 2016
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2024 in person",
      "conf_high": 57.5531,
      "conf_low": 41.038,
      "estimate": 49.2956,
      "mode": "ftf",
      "n": 862,
      "panel": "ANES: more difficult to buy (Democratic minus Republican)",
      "year": 2024
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2024 web",
      "conf_high": 56.8366,
      "conf_low": 45.452,
      "estimate": 51.1443,
      "mode": "web",
      "n": 1581,
      "panel": "ANES: more difficult to buy (Democratic minus Republican)",
      "year": 2024
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2018 in person",
      "conf_high": 34.6224,
      "conf_low": 19.8824,
      "estimate": 27.2524,
      "mode": "ftf",
      "n": 1074,
      "panel": "GSS: gun in the home (Republican minus Democratic)",
      "year": 2018
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2021 web",
      "conf_high": 33.2952,
      "conf_low": 24.1599,
      "estimate": 28.7275,
      "mode": "web",
      "n": 2619,
      "panel": "GSS: gun in the home (Republican minus Democratic)",
      "year": 2021
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2022 in person",
      "conf_high": 33.1404,
      "conf_low": 9.98458,
      "estimate": 21.5625,
      "mode": "ftf",
      "n": 739,
      "panel": "GSS: gun in the home (Republican minus Democratic)",
      "year": 2022
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2022 web",
      "conf_high": 35.4006,
      "conf_low": 13.7599,
      "estimate": 24.5802,
      "mode": "web",
      "n": 742,
      "panel": "GSS: gun in the home (Republican minus Democratic)",
      "year": 2022
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2024 in person",
      "conf_high": 37.3446,
      "conf_low": 14.385,
      "estimate": 25.8648,
      "mode": "ftf",
      "n": 528,
      "panel": "GSS: gun in the home (Republican minus Democratic)",
      "year": 2024
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2024 web",
      "conf_high": 43.0914,
      "conf_low": 25.168,
      "estimate": 34.1297,
      "mode": "web",
      "n": 822,
      "panel": "GSS: gun in the home (Republican minus Democratic)",
      "year": 2024
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2018 in person",
      "conf_high": 29.6648,
      "conf_low": 15.9523,
      "estimate": 22.8085,
      "mode": "ftf",
      "n": 1087,
      "panel": "GSS: police permit (Democratic minus Republican)",
      "year": 2018
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2021 web",
      "conf_high": 39.7389,
      "conf_low": 31.0815,
      "estimate": 35.4102,
      "mode": "web",
      "n": 2661,
      "panel": "GSS: police permit (Democratic minus Republican)",
      "year": 2021
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2022 in person",
      "conf_high": 41.4004,
      "conf_low": 20.2206,
      "estimate": 30.8105,
      "mode": "ftf",
      "n": 756,
      "panel": "GSS: police permit (Democratic minus Republican)",
      "year": 2022
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2022 web",
      "conf_high": 44.0235,
      "conf_low": 24.5377,
      "estimate": 34.2806,
      "mode": "web",
      "n": 749,
      "panel": "GSS: police permit (Democratic minus Republican)",
      "year": 2022
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2024 in person",
      "conf_high": 29.1137,
      "conf_low": 7.61361,
      "estimate": 18.3637,
      "mode": "ftf",
      "n": 532,
      "panel": "GSS: police permit (Democratic minus Republican)",
      "year": 2024
    },
    {
      "comparison": "2024 web",
      "conf_high": 42.2846,
      "conf_low": 26.1623,
      "estimate": 34.2235,
      "mode": "web",
      "n": 837,
      "panel": "GSS: police permit (Democratic minus Republican)",
      "year": 2024
    }
  ],
  "id": "mode_check",
  "notes": [
    "GSS in-person and web rows are the respondents interviewed in each mode; the GSS 2022 and 2024 surveys mixed the two, and 2021 was mostly web. The 2020 ANES study has no separate weights by mode, so it has no row.",
    "The 2024 ANES rows are the fresh in-person and fresh web samples of the 2024 Time Series with the post-election mode weights; the panel and paper respondents are in neither. A party cell needs at least 100 respondents and an effective sample of at least 100."
  ],
  "source": "General Social Survey, 2018-2024, and ANES Cumulative Data File, 2012 and 2016, and ANES 2024 Time Series; weighted (weight_use; weight_ftf and weight_web; post-election mode weights V240101b and V240102b)",
  "spec": {
    "facet": "panel",
    "facetColumns": 3,
    "hi": "conf_high",
    "lo": "conf_low",
    "n": "n",
    "reference": 0,
    "sort": "data",
    "x": "estimate",
    "xDomain": [
      0,
      65
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "digits": 1
    },
    "xLabel": "Party gap (percentage points)",
    "y": "comparison"
  },
  "subtitle": "Party gap by interview mode for the GSS gun in the home and police permit items and the ANES buying a gun item; party identifiers including leaners; 95% intervals",
  "table": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "key": "panel",
        "label": "Item"
      },
      {
        "key": "comparison",
        "label": "Year and mode"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "estimate",
        "label": "Gap (points)"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "conf_low",
        "label": "Lower"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "conf_high",
        "label": "Upper"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "thousands": true
        },
        "key": "n",
        "label": "Respondents"
      }
    ]
  },
  "title": "Every party gap is above zero within each interview mode, and web and in-person gaps differ by more than sampling error only on the 2024 GSS permit item",
  "type": "dot",
  "width": "wide"
}