{
  "alt": "Table of sort dates with one row per survey and measure. ANES abortion has a window ending in {fact:abortion_point} and a sort date of {fact:abortion_bound}; ANES religion has {fact:religion_point} and {fact:religion_bound}; the GSS abortion item has {fact:gss_abortion_point} and {fact:gss_abortion_bound}; racial resentment is above the rule at its first reading; the economy row has no date.",
  "caption": "By the lower bound the ANES dates abortion at {fact:abortion_bound} and the GSS at {fact:gss_abortion_bound}, and the ANES dates religion at {fact:religion_bound} on the importance item while the GSS attendance item is dated {fact:gss_religion_bound}. The window is the last survey with a point estimate at or below the rule and the first survey from which the point estimate stays above it; the crossing lies somewhere in that window. The sort date is the first survey from which the lower bound of the 95% interval stays above the rule, and the upper-bound year is the first survey from which the upper bound stays above it. The rule is {fact:rule_sd} SD in every row, and the economic row has no date because the gap changes sign. Dates for the White and face-to-face samples and for the other rules are in the dumbbell chart of sort dates.",
  "data": [
    {
      "first": 1980,
      "measure": "Abortion, 4-category",
      "sort_date": "2008",
      "survey": "ANES",
      "upper": "1992",
      "window": "1996 to 1998"
    },
    {
      "first": 1977,
      "measure": "Abortion for any reason, answer no",
      "sort_date": "2012",
      "survey": "GSS",
      "upper": "1993",
      "window": "2008 to 2010"
    },
    {
      "first": 2014,
      "measure": "Abortion, always allow",
      "sort_date": "at or before 2014",
      "survey": "CES",
      "upper": "at or before 2014",
      "window": "at or before 2014"
    },
    {
      "first": 1986,
      "measure": "Racial resentment, 4-item index",
      "sort_date": "1992",
      "survey": "ANES",
      "upper": "at or before 1986",
      "window": "at or before 1986"
    },
    {
      "first": 1994,
      "measure": "Work your way up (one item)",
      "sort_date": "2010",
      "survey": "GSS",
      "upper": "at or before 1994",
      "window": "at or before 1994"
    },
    {
      "first": 1980,
      "measure": "Religion, importance",
      "sort_date": "2016",
      "survey": "ANES",
      "upper": "2008",
      "window": "2008 to 2012"
    },
    {
      "first": 1980,
      "measure": "Church attendance, attends often",
      "sort_date": "2008",
      "survey": "ANES",
      "upper": "1992",
      "window": "2004 to 2008"
    },
    {
      "first": 1977,
      "measure": "Church attendance, 0 to 8 scale",
      "sort_date": "2024",
      "survey": "GSS",
      "upper": "1998",
      "window": "2004 to 2006"
    },
    {
      "first": 2008,
      "measure": "Religion, importance",
      "sort_date": "at or before 2008",
      "survey": "CES",
      "upper": "at or before 2008",
      "window": "at or before 2008"
    },
    {
      "first": 1980,
      "measure": "Economy got better over the past year",
      "sort_date": "none",
      "survey": "ANES",
      "upper": "none",
      "window": "none"
    }
  ],
  "id": "dates_table",
  "notes": [
    "A date given as at or before a year belongs to a series that is above the rule at its first reading, so the date is not identified. The CES gaps are above the rule at their first readings, in 2008 for religion and 2014 for abortion.",
    "ANES attendance ends in 2020: in the Cumulative Data File the attendance question has an answer for {fact:attend_answered_2024} of respondents in 2024 against {fact:attend_answered_2020} in 2020, so 2024 is not comparable."
  ],
  "source": "ANES Cumulative Data File 1980-2024, General Social Survey 1977-2024 and Cooperative Election Study 2008-2024; weighted (VCF0009z, weight_use, weight_cumulative)",
  "spec": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "key": "survey",
        "label": "Survey"
      },
      {
        "key": "measure",
        "label": "Measure"
      },
      {
        "key": "sort_date",
        "label": "Lower bound above the rule from"
      },
      {
        "key": "window",
        "label": "Point estimate passes the rule between"
      },
      {
        "key": "upper",
        "label": "Upper bound above the rule from"
      }
    ]
  },
  "subtitle": "Survey years in which the party gap passes the sort-date rule and stays above it, by survey and measure, all respondents",
  "title": "Sort dates differ across surveys and items for the same attitude",
  "type": "table",
  "width": "wide"
}