State Public Opinion and Abortion Policy (ICPSR 1207)

Principal Investigator(s): Norrander, Barbara, University of Arizona; Wilcox, Clyde, Georgetown University

Summary: In this article, aggregated public opinion on abortion, parental consent, and government funding of abortion are related to state abortion policies. Other variables include abortion political action committee (PAC) contributions, religious denominations, demographic factors, political culture, liberal policy, and women and parties in state government. (more info)

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Norrander, Barbara, and Clyde Wilcox. State Public Opinion and Abortion Policy. ICPSR01207-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999-12-10. doi:10.3886/ICPSR01207.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01207.v1

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Summary:   In this article, aggregated public opinion on abortion, parental consent, and government funding of abortion are related to state abortion policies. Other variables include abortion political action committee (PAC) contributions, religious denominations, demographic factors, political culture, liberal policy, and women and parties in state government.

Subject Terms:   abortion, government funding, public opinion, state government, states (USA)

Geographic Coverage:   United States

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(1) The files submitted are norwil.spss.gz (an SPSS export file) and norwil.cd.gz (an ASCII text codebook). The files are zipped using gzip and must be FTPed in binary mode. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.

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Original ICPSR Release:  1999-12-10

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