About the CMPS
The Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) is a non-partisan, multiracial/ethnic, multilingual, post-Presidential election online survey in the United States, developed by academic researchers in 2008. In 2016, the CMPS adopted an innovative cooperative model which broadened the scope of access to high-quality national survey data, with large samples of racial/ethnic and underrepresented groups in the United States. Survey items included on the CMPS are generated through contributions from a national consortium of academic scholars called the CMPS Scholars Research Network. This consortium currently includes 250 researchers, from nearly 100 colleges/universities, across multiple academic disciplines including the social sciences, psychology, public policy, public health, education, law, and other fields.
The Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) has changed the way data is collected and shared in the social sciences, and collaboratively built a diverse and inclusive academic pipeline of researchers in the social sciences and beyond. The Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) is considered one of the most impactful survey-based data projects in the social sciences. The 2024 CMPS continues and expands the highly successful, pioneering 2016 and 2020 CMPS, which broadened the scope of access to high-quality national survey data with large and generalizable samples of racial, ethnic, and other identity groups in the United States.
The CMPS is more than a pioneering survey. Using the collaborative, inclusive model of resource-sharing we developed in 2016 and 2020, the 2024 CMPS expands research and professional development opportunities for underrepresented, under-resourced, and/or first generation faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral scholars. We work with a diverse group of scholars from research universities to liberal arts colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). The CMPS Scholars Research Network continues to invest time, resources and mentorship to a multidisciplinary group of scholars with limited or no travel budget for research conferences, workshops and writing retreats to advance collaborations, publications, and grant writing opportunities.
The 2024 CMPS
We are gearing up for the 2024 CMPS which will approximately include completed interviews among Asian Americans (n=4,000), African Americans (n=4,000), Latinxs (n=4,000), and White non-Hispanics (n=2,000). The 2024 CMPS will also include adult oversamples of Native Americans (n=1,000), Black African immigrants (n=1,000), Afro-Latinxs (n=1,000), MENA (n=1,000) and LGBTQ (n=1,000) individuals. The 2024 CMPS will also include a sample of about (n=2,000) 16- and 17-year-old youth.
These samples allow for the analysis of an individual group or comparative analysis across groups. Survey data will be collected online in a respondent self-administered format following the 2024 Presidential election season. The survey (and invitation) may be available to respondents in English, Spanish, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Korean, Vietnamese, Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, and Haitian Creole. The 2024 CMPS will include U.S. citizens and non-citizens.
With continued support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), 2024 CMPS will pretest questions through our 2024 CMPS Pretest Omnibus Survey to launch in October 2024, and streamline question content while maintaining the unique, inclusive, and innovative cooperative structure of the CMPS. The 2024 CMPS National Advisory Board and Oversample Directors will help to guide the various question development and module structures for the survey oversamples of hard-to-reach populations, youth sample, and preparation of the aggregate level data merge project. The 2024 main survey will launch in January 2025.
Joining the CMPS Scholars Research Network
The deadline to express your intent to purchase survey content on the 2024 CMPS has passed. However, you can still purchase a data use license as a 2024 CMPS Collaborator. Collaborator licensees are scholars who purchase access to the data but do not add question/content on the survey. Collaborators get access to the FULL survey and data products. Collaborators also get access to an appended dataset with a variety of Census and other aggregate-level data, including vote history information for registered voters. There are two types of Collaborator licenses: (1) individual collaborator and (2) research teams with a faculty lead.
If you are interested in purchasing a Collaborator license please contact us as soon as possible at cmpsurveycoop@gmail.com as the number of licenses available is limited.
To download the codebook and dataset from the most recent cycle of the CMPS (2020) visit ICPSR here. To download the entire series, including 2008, 2012, and 2016, visit ICPSR’s Collaborative Multi-racial Post-election Survey (CMPS) Series.
