Interest Group Ratings
The file below contains interest group ratings for a wide variety of interest groups for the 1959-81 period. These are the data used in Poole (1981; 1984; 1990) and Poole and Daniels (1985). There are four files. One is a text file that explains how the data is organized and formatted and the other three files contain the data.
Interest Group Ratings 1959-81 (.37 meg ZIP file) 
Interest Group Ratings 1959-81 Merged With DW-NOMINATE Scores (Stata 8 file)
Contains data from C:\atime2009_Greg_Koger\vote_scores_poole_dataset_DW merged.
> dta
obs: 12,268
vars: 78 16 Feb 2009 15:50
size: 2,281,848 (99.6% of memory free)
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storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
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year int %8.0g
congress byte %8.0g
session byte %8.0g
senate byte %8.0g
prid long %12.0g
party int %8.0g
state byte %8.0g
name str11 %11s
ada int %8.0g
cope int %8.0g
nfu int %8.0g
ccus int %8.0g
aca int %8.0g
ike int %8.0g
jfk int %8.0g
lbj int %8.0g
nixon int %8.0g
ford int %8.0g
carter int %8.0g
cc int %8.0g
pfpike byte %8.0g
pdpike byte %8.0g
lfs int %8.0g
lfr int %8.0g
nr int %8.0g
ll int %8.0g
asc int %8.0g
ripon int %8.0g
uaw int %8.0g
nea int %8.0g
lwv int %8.0g
acu int %8.0g
ntu int %8.0g
lcv int %8.0g
cfa int %8.0g
nfo int %8.0g
afscme int %8.0g
afge int %8.0g
sane int %8.0g
aft int %8.0g
cwla int %8.0g
cw int %8.0g
ncsc int %8.0g
nfib int %8.0g
fcnl int %8.0g
cfnfmp int %8.0g
twr int %8.0g
nasc int %8.0g
afbf int %8.0g
ccause int %8.0g
bfw int %8.0g
umw int %8.0g
bctd int %8.0g
nwpc int %8.0g
cv int %8.0g
aclu int %8.0g
ccus2 int %8.0g
csfca int %8.0g
csfce int %8.0g
csfcd int %8.0g
csfcs int %8.0g
cvvf byte %8.0g
reagan byte %8.0g
pfpjfk int %8.0g
pdpjfk int %8.0g
pfplbj int %8.0g
pdplbj int %8.0g
stateid byte %8.0g
district byte %8.0g
surname str11 %11s surname
dw1 float %9.0g dw1
dw2 float %9.0g dw2
se1 float %9.0g se1
se2 float %9.0g se2
logl float %9.0g logl
choices float %9.0g choices
errors float %9.0g errors
gmp float %9.0g gmp
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Here is the output of the "summ" command in STATA:
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
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year | 12268 1970.011 6.639235 1959 1981
congress | 12268 91.26663 3.328694 86 97
session | 12268 1.477665 .4995213 1 2
senate | 12268 .1874796 .390312 0 1
prid | 12268 8802.608 4352.841 2 92855
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party | 12268 1.384985 .4866117 1 2
state | 12268 36.60597 21.1802 1 82
name | 0
ada | 11733 55.41174 110.5711 0 999
cope | 11732 67.66408 121.6786 0 999
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nfu | 9066 64.12872 76.44327 0 999
ccus | 4279 76.42603 159.755 0 999
aca | 12267 58.93063 118.6254 0 999
ike | 1065 57.06103 41.36188 0 999
jfk | 1603 65.99813 34.88001 7 999
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lbj | 2657 68.27136 28.21599 12 999
nixon | 3198 62.10475 40.66004 0 999
ford | 1598 51.34856 29.54409 0 999
carter | 2146 61.83411 44.821 0 999
cc | 12267 55.43858 47.19641 0 999
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pfpike | 1065 57.46009 27.47313 0 100
pdpike | 1065 43.0892 24.71956 0 100
lfs | 535 71.66916 126.7192 0 999
lfr | 4790 62.57891 46.81928 0 999
nr | 7458 67.30397 139.4698 0 999
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ll | 5863 50.42521 109.8028 0 999
asc | 6942 68.47854 85.12937 0 999
ripon | 5864 57.14461 62.82929 0 999
uaw | 6942 74.0739 136.9475 0 999
nea | 6402 72.80897 106.1127 0 999
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lwv | 5349 80.03477 144.0166 0 999
acu | 4813 51.76169 92.78953 0 999
ntu | 5346 131.5802 291.9257 0 999
lcv | 5346 69.25159 146.0506 0 999
cfa | 5340 74.37715 162.1048 0 999
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nfo | 4278 67.60729 63.38608 0 999
afscme | 3745 61.19065 80.43808 0 999
afge | 2666 112.2671 204.3216 0 999
sane | 3200 89.75281 214.1953 0 999
aft | 3744 56.72543 59.63313 0 999
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cwla | 2143 65.58236 78.85674 0 999
cw | 3211 48.51199 57.30203 0 999
ncsc | 2146 57.12815 67.89769 0 999
nfib | 2679 60.79918 57.17697 0 999
fcnl | 2146 49.76514 71.86275 0 999
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cfnfmp | 2145 48.46993 70.09536 0 999
twr | 1068 36.7912 46.938 0 999
nasc | 2145 54.33007 74.63026 0 999
afbf | 1605 58.86231 64.10596 0 999
ccause | 1067 62.53327 54.33345 0 999
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bfw | 1611 60.36065 47.62492 0 999
umw | 1071 50.86928 66.89531 0 999
bctd | 1071 55.33987 62.06691 0 999
nwpc | 538 57.26766 89.15316 0 999
cv | 1071 55.74603 68.03171 0 999
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aclu | 1611 106.4972 234.1274 0 999
ccus2 | 538 823.1859 368.4508 7 999
csfca | 1611 108.9323 231.296 8 999
csfce | 1078 56.14378 89.99313 4 999
csfcd | 1078 58.16976 89.475 0 999
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csfcs | 1078 52.73562 90.44301 1 999
cvvf | 533 62.61538 34.64786 0 100
reagan | 533 59.22326 18.58593 21 94
pfpjfk | 1603 68.43419 40.47547 0 999
pdpjfk | 1603 65.87087 41.55132 5 999
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pfplbj | 2657 69.53143 41.30633 0 999
pdplbj | 2657 68.52616 33.28201 7 999
stateid | 12263 36.60882 21.17806 1 82
district | 12263 8.330425 11.42941 0 99
surname | 0
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dw1 | 12263 -.0604919 .3373577 -1.108 1.586
dw2 | 12263 .0670965 .5280523 -1.209 1.475
se1 | 12257 .0673739 .0477311 .012 .644
se2 | 12257 .1961957 .1353477 .015 2.981
logl | 12257 -135.5963 138.125 -921.7478 .899
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choices | 12257 542.3075 333.9483 30 1217
errors | 12257 77.84442 61.61191 0 434
gmp | 12257 .7402389 .0750378 .349 .964