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Description & Citation--Study No. 6099

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:6099
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06099
 
Title:Survey of Soviet Values, 1990
 
Principal Investigator(s):James L. Gibson
 
  Raymond M. Duch
 
Funding Agency:National Science Foundation, Los Angeles Times, University of Houston College of Social Sciences, Dresser Foundation, and USSR Academy of Sciences.
 
Grant Number:SES-9003868
 
Bibliographic Citation:Gibson, James L., and Raymond M. Duch. SURVEY OF SOVIET VALUES, 1990 [Computer file]. Institute of Sociology, USSR Academy of Sciences [producer], 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06099
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This dataset contains survey information from parts of the former Soviet Union located in Europe: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belorussia, Ukraine, Moldavia, Georgia, Armenia, and Russia west of the Ural Mountains. It was designed to assess respondents' commitment to democratic values and rates of political participation of the Soviet mass public. Major topics covered include conventional and unconventional political participation, political tolerance, support for democratic elections, support for pluralistic media, rights consciousness, anti-Semitism, and support for market institutions.
 
Subject Term(s):anti-Semitism, democracy, elections, human rights, market economy, media, political interest, political participation, public approval
 
Geographic Coverage:Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, Russia, Global
 
Time Period:May 1990
 
Date(s) of Collection:May 1990
 
Universe:Adult residents of those portions of the Soviet Union located in Europe, with the exception of Azerbaijan and Kazakastan.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:Two European sections of the former Soviet Union are not included in this dataset: Azerbaijan, due to political unrest, and Kazakastan, due to interview cost.
 

Methodology

Sample:Four-stage stratified random sample. In the initial stage of the sampling, geographical units were classified according to certain statistical indices based on their assumed importance in structuring the beliefs of ordinary respondents. In the second stage of the sampling, eight substrata were identified from each of the first-stage strata. At the third stage of the sampling, each geographical unit fitting the defined matrix was enumerated, and the adult residents of these units were sampled in the fourth stage.
 
Data Source:personal interviews
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1994-10-20
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Main Data File
  • DS2: Frequencies File
 

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