ICPSR Metadata record for Three-Generation National Survey of Black American Families, 1979-1981 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/). Three-Generation National Survey of Black American Families, 1979-1981 Jackson, James S. Tucker, M. Belinda Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 1998-01-16 9288 doi://10.3886/ICPSR09288.v2
This dataset was created by merging information collected from three questionnaires that form part of the NATIONAL SURVEY OF BLACK AMERICANS, 1979-1980 (ICPSR 8512) (NSBA). The three questionnaires were (1) the original cross-sectional survey questionnaire, (2) the reinterview questionnaire, and (3) the family members questionnaire. All three were administered from 1979-1981. The unit of analysis in this dataset is three generations of a family, or a "triad." Each unit or record has identical variables for the three individuals making up a triad (i.e., a grandparent, parent, and child). There are 510 triads in this dataset. The study explores feelings and attitudes across the three generations regarding neighborhood-community integration, services, crime and community contact, the role of religion and the church, physical and mental health, and self-esteem. Employment, the effects of chronic unemployment, the effects of race on the job, and interaction with family and friends are also examined. In addition, the survey provides information on racial attitudes, race identity, group stereotypes, and race ideology. Demographic variables include age, education, income, occupation, and political behavior and affiliation.
 UniverseScheme09288 Organization09288_1 ICPSR.XVII.A RCMD.IX AHRQMCC.I RCMD.IX.A RCMD.XIII NACDA.II African Americans attitudes community involvement crime employment mental health neighborhoods physical condition religion self esteem social interaction unemployment United States 1979 1981 survey data Black United States citizens 18 years of age or older. National multistage probability sample. The sample is self-weighting. Every Black American household in the continental United States had an equal probability of being selected. personal interviews and self-enumerated questionnaires 1979 1981 ICPSR
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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ netmail@icpsr.umich.edu United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Mental Health 1998-01-16 ICPSR 1998-01-16 Several corrupted variables have been corrected in the data file, and variable formats in the SPSS export file have been corrected. Also, the SAS and SPSS data definition statements have been revised to match the changes to the data file.