Description of the Data
The American State Administrators Project (ASAP) is a dataset of survey responses from state agency leaders. It provides information on the state administration of public policy. To do so, it gathers the perspectives of state agency leaders across all American states, all agency types, and over time. The data are collected across a variety of topics, such as demographic characteristics, career and professional experience, programs and priorities, political relationships, federal aid, contracting, and more. Dr. Susan Webb Yackee of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (“Provider”) led the efforts to make the 1964 to 2008 ASAP data publicly available.
The ASAP survey data are available to researchers at the agency level across 10 survey waves—twice a decade from 1964 to 2008. The data years are: 1964, 1968, 1974, 1978, 1984, 1988, 1994, 1998, 2004, and 2008.
In 2018, Dr. Yackee conducted a survey related to the original ASAP data with her co-principal investigator Dr. Jason Webb Yackee of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The ASAP survey data are available to academic researchers averaged and aggregated to the state level across all 11 survey waves. The data years are: 1964, 1968, 1974, 1978, 1984, 1988, 1994, 1998, 2004, 2008, and 2018.