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Description & Citation

Description & Citation--Study No. 7768 Bibliographic Description Scope of Study Methodology Access and Availability
Bibliographic Description
ICPSR Study No.:	7768

Title:	Political Participation and Equality in Seven Nations, 1966-1971

Principal Investigator(s):	Sidney Verba

	Norman H. Nie

	Jae-On Kim

Funding Agency:	National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Carnegie Corporation.

Bibliographic Citation:	Verba, Sidney, Norman H. Nie, and Jae-On Kim. POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND EQUALITY IN SEVEN NATIONS, 1966-1971 [Computer file]. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2000.

Scope of Study
Summary:	This data collection is composed of seven files: six individual country datasets (Austria, India, Japan, Netherlands, Nigeria, and Yugoslavia) and a comparative cross-national dataset. The study resulted from data collected for the collaborative project "Cross-National Program in Political and Social Change" in seven nations conducted primarily by Sidney Verba, Norman H. Nie, and Jae-On Kim. This survey was designed to deal comprehensively with one aspect of the larger study: to ascertain the ways citizens participate politically in local and national affairs and the processes that lead them to do so. Personal interviews were conducted from 1966 to 1971 in seven nations, including the United States. The United States dataset can be found separately in the collection, POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN AMERICA, 1967 [ICPSR 7015], and is included in the Cross-National file (Part 7). Questions were asked to measure respondents' involvement in political organizations at both the local and national levels, participation in formal and informal community groups, the extent of individual contact with public officials, attitudes toward recent political and social changes, and interest in the political process. Demographic items specify age, sex, marital status, occupation, household composition, length of stay in community, size of community, education, home ownership, family income, political party identification, religion, race, union membership, position in union, and reason for joining union.

Subject Term(s):	Austria, community participation, comparative social research, cross-national, India, Japan, Netherlands, Nigeria, political activities, political attitudes and behavior, political efficacy, political interaction, political issues, political organizations, political participation, social attitudes and behavior, United States, Yugoslavia

Geographic Coverage:	Global

Time Period:	1966 - 1971

Date(s) of Collection:	1966 - 1971

Data Type:	survey data

Data Collection Notes:	The codebooks are provided as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

Methodology
Sample:	Sampling procedures varied by nation. In general, a national representative sample of a cross-section of the citizens in each nation was generated. Also generated was a set of mini-community samples for 60-100 communities, a sample of elites for each of these communities, and numerous types of information on the demography and structure of each of the communities. In Austria, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States, the cross-section samples are representative of the entire nation. In the other three nations, India, Yugoslavia, and Nigeria, the samples pertain to specified sub-national regions. In all nations, except the U.S., the cross-section samples are multi-staged area probability samples to the level of the individual. The U.S. sample is a multi-staged area probability sample to the block level, with block quota techniques employed for the final selection of respondents.

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

Version History:	The last update of this study occurred on 2000-05-01.

	2000-05-01 - The SPSS data definition statements for this collection were updated and SAS data definitions statements files have been added. In addition, the codebooks are available in Portable Document Format, and the data files have been reordered.

Dataset(s):	DS1: 1: Austria DS2: 2: India DS3: 3: Japan DS4: 4: The Netherlands DS5: 5: Nigeria DS6: 6: Yugoslavia DS7: 7: Cross-National File

Description & Citation

Description & Citation--Study No. 7768

Bibliographic Description

Scope of Study

Methodology

Access and Availability