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Description & Citation--Study No. 7309

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:7309
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07309
 
Title:General Social Survey, 1972
 
Principal Investigator(s):James A. Davis
 
Series:General Social Survey Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:Davis, James A. GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY, 1972 [Computer file]. Conducted by National Opinion Research Center. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1973. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07309
 

Scope of Study

Summary:In addition to the standard personal characteristic items, the survey covers items viewed by the NORC staff and an advisory panel of sociologists as "mainstream" interests of modern academic sociology. The interview covers the areas of stratification, the family, race relations, social control, civil liberties, and morale. A major objective of the project was the replication of questions which have appeared in previous national surveys. The data were collected by the National Opinion Research Center as the first in a five year series of general social surveys. The survey was administered in February-April 1972 to a national cross-section sample of adults 18 years of age and older. The data were obtained from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
 
Subject Term(s):civil rights, families, life cycle, morale, morality, race relations, racial attitudes, sexual behavior, social attitudes, social control, social indicators, social issues, social mobility, social stratification, socioeconomic status
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Date(s) of Collection:February 1972 - April 1972
 
Universe:English-speaking persons 18 years of age or over, living in noninstitutional arrangements within the United States.
 
Data Type:survey data
 

Methodology

Sample:National probability sampling design.
 
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:1984-05-10
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: General Social Survey, 1972
 

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