ICPSR Metadata record for Detroit Area Study, 1997: Social Change in Religion and Child Rearing ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). Detroit Area Study, 1997: Social Change in Religion and Child Rearing Alwin, Duane F. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2005-06-02 4120 doi://10.3886/ICPSR04120.v1

For this survey, respondents from three counties in the Detroit, Michigan, area were queried about their work, health, marriage and family, finances, political views, religion, and child rearing. With respect to finances, respondent views were elicited on credit card purchases, recording expenditures, and savings and investments. Regarding political views, respondents were questioned about political preferences, presidential values, freedom of speech, nuclear war, and the interest of public officials. Questions also addressed religious beliefs and experiences, including the religiosity of respondents' parents, belief in and relationship with God, the relationship between science and religion, school prayer, divorce, and homosexuality. Additional religious questions -- based on the respondents' religious preference (i.e., Protestant, Catholic, Jew, Other Religion, or No Preference/Agnostic/Atheist Only) -- also were asked, covering topics such as interfaith marriages, religion of friends, and observance of religious holy days. Questions were asked about the views of respondents' religious leaders on issues including drinking, abortion, and test-tube fertilization. Regarding child rearing, views were elicited on issues including religious preference of child(ren) raised, religious training given to child(ren), and frequency of prayer before meals. Background information includes marital status, employment, political orientation, and income.

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 UniverseScheme04120 Detroit Area Studies Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00151. ICPSR.II.B DATAPASS.I FENWAY.VI RCMD.XIII abortion birth control Catholics child rearing Christianity church attendance communism Creationism credit card use divorce drinking behavior economic behavior educational background employment ethnicity family life fertility freedom of speech friendships gambling health behavior health status homosexuality income intergenerational relations Jews job satisfaction marriage nuclear war political affiliation political participation political parties prayer presidency priests Protestants religious affiliation religious behavior religious beliefs religious conversion school prayer suicide voting behavior Detroit, Michigan, United States 1997 1997 survey data Residents 21 years and older in the tri-county area (Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb) of Michigan. A random-digit dialing sample of residential telephone numbers in the Michigan counties of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb. The sample was restricted to adults 21 years of age and older. 1997 1997 ICPSR
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