nmm 22 4500 ICPSR08694 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130523s1987 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR08694 MiAaI MiAaI Soviet Interview Project, 1979-1985 [electronic resource] James R. Millar , Barbara A. Anderson , Donna Bahry , John Garrard , Paul R. Gregory , Rasma Karklins , Norman Nie , Brian D. Silver , Michael Swafford , Aaron Vinokur , William Zimmerman 1992-02-16 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 1987 ICPSR 8694 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-23. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions. Also available as downloadable files. This survey was undertaken to study everyday life in the Soviet Union by conducting highly-structured interviews with a probability sample of eligible Soviet emigrants in the United States. An interdisciplinary research team constructed a questionnaire with the expectation that the results would contribute not only to Sovietology, but to general theories in a number of academic disciplines, especially political science, economics, and sociology. Respondents were asked to comment on topics such as: crime, culture and the arts, education, ethnicity (or nationality), family life, fertility, friends, health and diet, housing, income and earnings, language practices, mass media, military experience, political and social opinions, politics, participation in organizations, religion, satisfaction, standard of living, and work. To insure that "normal" life experiences would be described, respondents were asked to define and discuss their last normal period in the USSR. Since applying to emigrate usually brings marked changes in Soviet citizens' lives, respondents reported the month and year in which they applied to emigrate, whether plans to emigrate had significantly changed their lives even before that date, and if so, specified the month and year in which their lives changed. Interviewers then made certain that all descriptions of day-to-day life in the Soviet Union referred to the period before the question of emigration became a significant issue for respondents. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08694.v2 crime icpsr education icpsr emigration icpsr ethnicity icpsr everyday life icpsr family life icpsr immigration icpsr income icpsr life satisfaction icpsr living conditions icpsr political participation icpsr politics icpsr public opinion icpsr quality of life icpsr social attitudes icpsr social life icpsr work icpsr work environment icpsr IDRC VI. Human Dimension of International Relations IDRC III. Electoral Systems and Political Behavior IDRC V. Health Data IDRC VII. Public Opinion Data IDRC I. Conflict Data ICPSR XVI.B. Social Indicators, Nations Other Than the United States IDRC II. Economic Data Millar, James R. Anderson, Barbara A. Bahry, Donna Garrard, John Gregory, Paul R. Karklins, Rasma Nie, Norman Silver, Brian D. Swafford, Michael Vinokur, Aaron Zimmerman, William Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 8694 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08694.v2