{
  "alt": "Table with four rows, three cutoffs for a deep county and one row that counts leaners as partisans. Each row gives the average party gap, the average place gap and their ratio with 95% intervals. The party gap stays far above the place gap in every row, the place gap rises with the cutoff, and the ratio falls as it rises.",
  "caption": "The place gap grows as the cutoff for a deep county moves from {fact:thr_low} to {fact:thr_high} points, and the ratio falls. The last row counts leaners as partisans. Each row is an average over the issues with a 95% interval.",
  "data": [
    {
      "definition": "Deep county: margin of 10 points or more",
      "party_gap": 43.7621,
      "party_gap_hi": 44.9994,
      "party_gap_lo": 42.7228,
      "place_gap": 4.48521,
      "place_gap_hi": 5.21477,
      "place_gap_lo": 3.7771,
      "ratio": 9.75698,
      "ratio_hi": 11.6529,
      "ratio_lo": 8.35399
    },
    {
      "definition": "Deep county: margin of 20 points or more (used in this chapter)",
      "party_gap": 43.0936,
      "party_gap_hi": 44.4766,
      "party_gap_lo": 41.801,
      "place_gap": 5.63409,
      "place_gap_hi": 6.61899,
      "place_gap_lo": 4.67739,
      "ratio": 7.64872,
      "ratio_hi": 9.3231,
      "ratio_lo": 6.43394
    },
    {
      "definition": "Deep county: margin of 40 points or more",
      "party_gap": 42.2694,
      "party_gap_hi": 44.4874,
      "party_gap_lo": 40.1032,
      "place_gap": 7.34698,
      "place_gap_hi": 8.88429,
      "place_gap_lo": 5.81005,
      "ratio": 5.75331,
      "ratio_hi": 7.47655,
      "ratio_lo": 4.59946
    },
    {
      "definition": "Leaners counted as partisans, margin of 20 points or more",
      "party_gap": 44.6396,
      "party_gap_hi": 46.0143,
      "party_gap_lo": 43.3617,
      "place_gap": 5.35998,
      "place_gap_hi": 6.27091,
      "place_gap_lo": 4.45092,
      "ratio": 8.32833,
      "ratio_hi": 10.0795,
      "ratio_lo": 7.07426
    }
  ],
  "id": "definition_checks",
  "notes": [
    "Ratios are computed from unrounded gaps, so a ratio can differ in its last digit from the quotient of the gaps as printed.",
    "Intervals are 95% intervals from a bootstrap that resamples whole states; they are model based and ignore the design of the panel."
  ],
  "source": "CES cumulative common content, 2013-2021; county returns for the two-party margin; weighted (weight_cumulative)",
  "spec": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "key": "definition",
        "label": "Definition"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "party_gap",
        "label": "Party gap"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "party_gap_lo",
        "label": "Party gap, low"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "party_gap_hi",
        "label": "Party gap, high"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "place_gap",
        "label": "Place gap"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "place_gap_lo",
        "label": "Place gap, low"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "place_gap_hi",
        "label": "Place gap, high"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "ratio",
        "label": "Ratio"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "ratio_lo",
        "label": "Ratio, low"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "ratio_hi",
        "label": "Ratio, high"
      }
    ]
  },
  "subtitle": "Average party gap and place gap over the issues, in points (share taking the Democratic side), and their ratio, with 95% intervals; CES survey years 2013 to 2021",
  "title": "The party gap exceeds the place gap under every definition, and the ratio falls as the county cutoff rises",
  "type": "table",
  "width": "wide"
}