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Description & Citation
Description & Citation--Study No. 7201 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 7201 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Civic Culture Study, 1959-1960 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Gabriel Almond |
| Sidney Verba | |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Almond, Gabriel, and Sidney Verba. CIVIC CULTURE STUDY, 1959-1960 [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1974. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This study was based on crossnational surveys conducted in five countries -- Germany, Italy, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Information was obtained from 955 respondents in Germany, 995 respondents in Italy, 1,008 respondents in Mexico, 963 respondents in the United Kingdom, and 970 respondents in the United States. The interviews focused on the respondents' basic political attitudes with emphasis on political partisanship, political socialization, and attitudes toward specific institutions as well as the political system and culture as a whole. Specific information was collected on respondents' political awareness and feelings of political efficacy and attitudes toward bureaucracy, police, political parties, campaigning, and various levels of government, as well as toward institutions such as school, family, and place of work. The number and types of organizations to which the respondents belonged were also recorded. Demographic data cover age, sex, race, marital status, number of children, religious preference, income, and socioeconomic status. |
| Subject Term(s): | bureaucracy, families, police, political attitudes, political awareness, political campaigns, political efficacy, political participation, political partisanship, schools, voting behavior, Europe, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States |
| Geographic Coverage: | Global |
| Time Period: | 1959 - 1960 |
| Universe: | Adult populations of Germany, Italy, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States. |
| Data Type: | survey data |
| Data Collection Notes: | (1) This five-nation study was generated by combining five separate data files, one for each country, into a single file. The data for one country or a subset of countries can be obtained by filtering by the country variable (V2). The data for a single country are available from ICPSR upon request. (2) All countries are unweighted, except Mexico, which has weights of 1, 2, and 3. The weight variable occurs in column 80 of each deck in the Card Image format. In the OSIRIS dataset, the weight variable is V4. The weighted N for Mexico is 1,295. |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | United States and United Kingdom: Multistage probability samples. Germany, Italy, and Mexico: Multistage stratified random samples. |
| 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: | 1984-06-20 |
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