The raw data behind the story: "How Popular is Donald Trump" https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/: Approval Poll Dataset
trump_approval_poll
A data frame with 3051 rows representing individual polls and 20 variables:
The subgroup the poll falls into as defined by the type of people being polled (all polls, voters, adults)
The date the polling began
The date the polling concluded
The polling group which produced the poll
The grade for President Trump that the respondents' approval ratings correspond to
The sample size of the poll
The type of people being polled (a for adults, lv for likely voters, rv for registered voters)
The weight fivethirtyeight gives the poll when determining approval ratings based on historical accuracy of the pollster
The percentage of respondents who approve of the president
The percentage of respondents who disapprove of the president
The percentage of respondents who approve of the president adjusted for systematic tendencies of the polling firm
The percentage of respondents who approve of the president adjusted for systematic tendencies of the polling firm
True if there are multiple versions of the poll, False if there are not
TRUE if the poll was tracked, FALSE if not
Poll result URL
Poll ID number
ID number for the question being polled
Date the poll was created
Date and time the poll was compiled
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-data/approval_polllist.csv and https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-data/approval_topline.csv
Variables "model_date", "influence", and "president" were deleted because each observation contained the same value for these variables: January 5, 2018; 0; and Donald Trump respectively.