The NSF-supported Record Of American Democracy (ROAD) project provides a wide variety of election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic details about the American public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation. The ROAD project spans every state in the country from 1984 through 1990 (including some off-year elections). The data sets include 30-40 electoral data variables, all elections at and above the State House for each election and state, and for all of the roughly 170,000 precincts nationwide. They also include all these political variables for each year and state and 3,725 additional variables merged from the 1990 U.S. Census, for 47,327 aggregate units about the size one or more cities or towns. The collection also includes geographic boundary files so users can easily draw maps with these data.
This ROAD Guide provides comprehensive information on the ROAD databases in a form useful for those who may wish to use the data, and (in separate sections) for those who may wish to extend our collection. We also describe the technical details of the preparation of the ROAD datasets, including exactly how every file was produced and could be replicated, extended, or improved.
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