Metadata record for Soviet Military-Civilian Interview Project, 1983-1987 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License . 2013-05-25 Soviet Military-Civilian Interview Project, 1983-1987 9584 10.3886/ICPSR09584.v1 Zimmerman, William Berbaum, Michael National Council for Soviet and East European Research Contract Number 701 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 1992-10-31 Zimmerman, William, and Michael Berbaum. Soviet Military-Civilian Interview Project, 1983-1987. ICPSR09584-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-08-25. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09584.v1 civilians combat educational background emigration ethnic groups immigrants jobs language military law military life military officers military personnel military service morale nationality performance political parties Soviet Union training work attitudes workforce ICPSR.XVI.B The Military-Civilian Interview Project interviewed male former Soviet citizens currently residing in the United States about their military and civilian workplace experiences. Respondents were asked to comment on whether plans to emigrate changed their lives significantly and if so, to specify the ways in which their lives changed. Other areas of investigation included civilian and military morale, service avoidance, and how factors such as nationality composition of the work force and initiative shown by the respondent related to performance in the military and civilian sectors. Questions relating to the military dealt with areas such as branch of service, combat experience, quality and type of equipment utilized, extent of training for military service, specific job assignments, working relationships between ethnic groups, instances and methods of military discipline, and relationship between supervisors. Parallel questions were asked about civilian work experiences. A series of questions concerning what lessons the United States could learn from the Soviet military was also asked. Demographic information elicited included age, languages spoken (other than Russian), political party affiliation, education, time frame of emigration, father's social group and military service, and city of residence at age 17. 1983 1987 1986 1987 United States The universe is a fairly complete list of 33,624 emigrants who arrived in the United States between January 1, 1979, and April 30, 1982. However, the focus of the study is the "referent Soviet population" (the sector of Soviet society the survey respondents could represent). The referent Soviet population is the "adult European population in large- and medium-sized Soviet cities." survey data Probability sample stratified on four background variables: nationality, region of last employment in the USSR, highest level of education attained, and size of city in which last employed. Individuals included in the sample were male emigrants between the ages of 21 and 70 inclusive at the time of arrival. Those with military service must have served after 1968, or have achieved the rank of captain. personal interviews

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