nmm 22 4500 ICPSR04725 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130521s2007 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR04725 MiAaI MiAaI Controversial Facilities in Japan, 1955-1995 [electronic resource] Purdue University 2007-12-05 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 2007 ICPSR 4725 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-21. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions. Also available as downloadable files. The purpose of this study was to understand the factors that lead decision-makers and authorities in Japan to select localities as host communities for often-unwanted and controversial facilities such as nuclear power plants, dams, and airports. The dataset contains observations on approximately 500 Japanese cities, towns, and villages covering the period from 1955 through 1995. Data was collected through archival research, interviews with anti-facility activists and officials, and surveys of relevant government offices throughout Japan. This dataset is designed to investigate questions of site selection and siting success for often unwanted projects in Japan. The dataset contains only localities that meet the geographical and geological criteria for siting such facilities, such as land that is both impermeable to water and resistant to seismic shocks. Variables assessed include the number of siting attempts and successes in the locality, the town's location in Japan by prefecture and by political district code, along with information on demographic, socioeconomic, and political factors. Demographic information includes sex ratios in the locality over time along with percentage of elderly in the population. Socioeconomic status was examined through measures of primary, secondary, and tertiary sector workforces over time, including variables on the coastal, mid-range, and deep sea fishing cooperatives (where applicable). Political variables include district magnitude, presence or absence of a prime minister from locally elected representatives, number of long-term Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) representatives, and the number of members of the town council and their political party. Additional political variables include the number and percentage of representatives from all major political parties in the national legislature, the political party of the mayor, and measures of over-time support from the area for the long-dominant LDP. The dataset also contains publicly-available information on compensation provided to the communities and information on eminent domain use. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04725.v1 airports icpsr facilities icpsr local politics icpsr nuclear reactors icpsr social activism icpsr water utilities icpsr ICPSR II.A.2. Community and Urban Studies, Studies of Local Politics, Nations Other Than the United States DATAPASS I. NDIIPP Purdue University Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 4725 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04725.v1 nmm 22 4500 ICPSR04535 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130521s2007 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR04535 MiAaI MiAaI Datasets on Charges of Malfeasance, Preference Votes, Government Portfolios, and Characteristics of Legislators, Chamber of Deputies, Republic of Italy, Legislatures I-XI, 1948-1992 [electronic resource] Miriam A. Golden 2007-06-21 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 2007 ICPSR 4535 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-21. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions. Also available as downloadable files. (such as libel and slander) from other (more serious) types of malfeasance. A constitutional change in November 1993 ended the requirement that the Chamber approve all requests to remove parliamentary immunity before the judiciary could proceed, and the dataset thus ends with the end of the XI Legislature in 1994. The data are arranged by RAP and deputy within each legislature. There may be multiple records of the same deputy within the same legislature if the individual was named in multiple RAP. A single RAP may name multiple deputies. Part 3: The dataset on government portfolios lists all ministers and undersecretaries for Legislatures I-XI, Republic of Italy. It includes information on whether the minister was drawn from the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate, or outside the legislature, as well as in which government the individual served. For members of the Chamber of Deputies, the individual's party affiliation, electoral district, party experience, and other demographic characteristics are also included. The data are arranged by individual and government within each legislature. There may be multiple records of the same minister within the same legislature if the individual was seated in multiple governments within the same legislative period. Part 4: The combined dataset on malfeasance, preference votes of DC and PSI candidates, government portfolios, and all seated deputies merges the three datasets above and incorporates the full universe of deputies. The combined dataset contains all the information enumerated above, and also includes records for all deputies not otherwise included, as well as the number of preference votes received by deputies affiliated with parties other than the DC and the PSI. Note that this combined dataset is complex because the same individual may appear multiple times even within the same legislature, for different reasons. The dataset on malfeasance contains a separate observation for each individual charge of malfeasance, so that deputies who are charged multiple times (either within the same legislative period or in different legislatures) appear as multiple separate observations. In the dataset on preference votes, the same candidate may appear more than once, if he or she stands for election in multiple districts and/or legislatures. The same is true, finally, for the dataset of government portfolios, because multiple governments were seated within a single legislature. Therefore, the same minister may appear more than once within a legislature if he or she held office in multiple governments. The component datasets were combined under the supervision of the Principal Investigator on the basis of a unique identifier ("tid") assigned to each individual person/deputy/minister. This allows the researcher to track individual deputies over different legislatures, as well as to track whether the same deputy was charged multiple times with malfeasance or served in multiple governments. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04535.v1 government icpsr government corruption icpsr political corruption icpsr DATAPASS I. NDIIPP ICPSR VIII.A. Governmental Structures, Policies, and Capabilities, Behavior and Attitudes of Bureaucrats IDRC III. Electoral Systems and Political Behavior ICPSR II.A.2. Community and Urban Studies, Studies of Local Politics, Nations Other Than the United States Golden, Miriam A. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 4535 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04535.v1 nmm 22 4500 ICPSR28661 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130521s2012 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR28661 MiAaI MiAaI Gansu Poverty and Education Project, Wave 1, 2000 [electronic resource] Emily Hannum , Yanhong Zhang 2012-03-08 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 2012 ICPSR 28661 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-21. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public. Also available as downloadable files. China's dramatic economic and educational changes over the past 20 years have stimulated concerns about the education of children in rural areas. Recent empirical studies give evidence of growing disparities in educational opportunities between urban and rural areas and socio-economic and geographic inequities in basic-level educational participation within rural areas. These studies also point to a persisting gender gap in enrollment and to the disproportionate impact of poverty on girls' educational participation (Hannum 1998b; Zhang 1998). This study focused on the influence of poverty on the schooling of 11 to 14 year-old children in rural Gansu, an interior province in Northwest China characterized by high rates of rural poverty and a substantial dropout problem. Substantively, this study was innovative in adopting an integrated approach: it focused on the community, family, and school contexts in which children are educated. Methodologically, the study combined information on children's academic performance and school characteristics, with a household-based sample that allowed examination of the academic experiences of children who have left the education system as well as those who have persisted in it. Finally, the project was the baseline wave for the first large-scale, longitudinal study devoted to education and social inequality conducted in rural China. Results of this study contribute to an understanding of basic social stratification processes and provide insights for developing intervention strategies to improve educational access and effectiveness in rural China. Additional information can be found on the Gansu Survey of Children and Families Web site. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28661.v1 communities icpsr economic change icpsr education reform icpsr educational change icpsr educationally disadvantaged icpsr family icpsr gender roles icpsr households icpsr poverty icpsr rural areas icpsr schools icpsr socioeconomic status icpsr educational opportunities icpsr ICPSR V.B. Education, Nations Other Than the United States ICPSR II.A.2. Community and Urban Studies, Studies of Local Politics, Nations Other Than the United States DSDR VI. Population Characteristics DSDR IV. Family and Household Structure Hannum, Emily Zhang, Yanhong Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 28661 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28661.v1 nmm 22 4500 ICPSR04206 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130521s2006 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR04206 MiAaI MiAaI Survey of Stratification and Migration Dynamics in Russia, 1985-2001 [electronic resource] Gerber, Theodore P. 2006-07-18 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 2006 ICPSR 4206 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-21. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions. Also available as downloadable files. The purpose of the study was to collect survey data on the employment/work histories, family structure histories, and residential mobility histories of Russian adults from January 1985 through the end of the survey. The work histories include the following information about each job held during that time period: occupation, how the job was found, employer type, industry, and size. In addition, the survey gathered information on current residence, occupation, other job characteristics, earnings, sources of household income, household ownership of consumer goods, basic demographic indicators, and attitude measures. The data were designed to be used for multivariate analysis of the factors influencing changes in employment status, job mobility of various types, changes in marital status, fertility, and residential mobility in Russia during the period of 1985-2001. Since the period covered by the histories spans the final seven years of the Soviet era and the first decade of the post-Soviet era, the data are uniquely suited for assessing whether the transition from Soviet-style socialism has affected stratification, family formation, and migration processes. Moreover, because the data include work/employment, family structure, and migration histories, the dataset is uniquely suited for dynamic analyses of the inter-relationships among states and events in these three domains. Finally, because the data contain information on each respondent's oblast (region) of residence at all points in time from 1985-2001, data on regional characteristics can be merged with files created from the survey data, in order to measure the impact of regional characteristics on individual-level events. The data can be used to investigate job and employment transitions, union formation and dissolution, fertility, departures of children, internal migration, determinants of earnings, wage arrears, consumption, and other topics. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04206.v1 consumption icpsr economic indicators icpsr employment icpsr family relationships icpsr family structure icpsr family work relationship icpsr fertility icpsr income icpsr job history icpsr labor migration icpsr occupational mobility icpsr political attitudes icpsr privatization icpsr wages and salaries icpsr work icpsr DATAPASS I. NDIIPP IDRC II. Economic Data IDRC VI. Human Dimension of International Relations ICPSR II.C. Community and Urban Studies, Historical Urban and Community Structure Studies IDRC III. Electoral Systems and Political Behavior ICPSR II.A.2. Community and Urban Studies, Studies of Local Politics, Nations Other Than the United States Gerber, Theodore P. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 4206 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04206.v1