More than producing a unique national-survey dataset, the CMPS builds a diverse academic pipeline of scholars in political science and the social sciences more broadly. In 2016, led by co-Principal Investigators Matt Barreto (UCLA), Lorrie Frasure (UCLA), Edward Vargas (Arizona State University), and Janelle Wong (University of Maryland–College Park), the 2016 CMPS became the first cooperative, multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual, post-election online survey in race, ethnicity, and politics (REP) in the United States.
The 2020 CMPS is a cross-sectional, web-based survey conducted April 2, 2021 - October 5, 2021 by Pacific Market Research for the University of California, with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The sample of 17,545 respondents included Asian American and Pacific Islander adults, Black/African American adults, Latino/a adults, and White, non-Hispanic adults, including oversamples of 1956 Native American adults, 426 Native Hawaiian adults, 1479 Black African immigrant adults, 1178 Afro-Latino adults, 784 American Muslim/MENA adults, and 1743 LGBTQ adults.
The Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey
The Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) is changing the way high-quality survey data are collected among racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Through collaboration and inclusiveness, the CMPS also broadens the scope of who has access to high quality survey data in academia and beyond.