ICPSR Metadata record for Detroit Longitudinal Study, 1967 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 Longitudinal Study, 1967 Aberbach, Joel Walker, Jack Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 1992-02-16 7312 doi://10.3886/ICPSR07312.v1
This survey asked Detroit area residents about satisfaction with their neighborhoods, police relations, racial discrimination, and perceptions of the 1967 riot and its consequences. In addition, the questionnaire measured feelings of political efficacy, political involvement, evaluations of various political personalities and social programs, and respondents' personal values and aspirations. Respondents' attitudes toward race relations were examined in a series of questions dealing with integration and separation of the races and an open-ended question that prompted respondents to define "Black power." Also included in this study are three derived measures: a general trust scale, an index assessing respondents' interpretations of the riot, and a political power index measuring respondents' perceptions of their ability to affect local and national laws. Questions also elicited background information, such as composition of respondents' parental families, level of education of parental figures, father's occupation, and parental influence on the respondents' job choices. Region and size of place of residence during childhood were also ascertained, as well as how long the respondent had lived in Detroit. Demographic data include age, sex, race, marital status, education and technical training, occupation, employment history, union membership, and service in the Armed Forces for the head of household. In all cases Black respondents were interviewed by Black interviewers and white respondents were interviewed by white interviewers.
 UniverseScheme07312 ICPSR.XVII.A RCMD.XII aspirations Black power Black White relations childhood Detroit riots (1967) educational background family life military service neighborhoods parental influence political attitudes police performance political efficacy political participation public opinion race relations racial attitudes riots social attitudes social problems social status trust in government voting behavior values Detroit, Michigan, United States 1967 1967 survey data People 16 years of age or older living in dwelling units in the city of Detroit, in Hamtramck and Highland Park (cities entirely enclosed within Detroit), and in Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Pointe Shores, Grosse Pointe Woods, Grosse Pointe Park, and Harper Woods (communities forming a wedge between the east side of Detroit and Lake St. Clair). Random sample (N=538), supplemented with a special sample (N=309) randomly drawn from the areas of Detroit where fires related to the 1967 civil disturbance were located. personal interviews 1967-08 1968-03

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