Job Satisfaction in the House of Representatives, 1999 (ICPSR 36584)
Version Date: Oct 24, 2016 View help for published
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Rebekah Herrick, Oklahoma State University
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36584.v1
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Job Satisfaction in the House of Representatives, 1999, reflects data collected from a mail survey of former members of the House of Representatives conducted in the Summer of 1999. The survey was funded by a grant from the Dirksen Congressional Center and the Caterpiller Foundation.
The collection includes data about former members who left congress between 1970 and 1999; of the 401 former members who were sent surveys 228 responded for a response rate of about 57%. The respondents were surveyed about reasons why they left congress, their relationships with their colleagues, satisfaction with position, and aspects of their family. Demographic variables included in this dataset are marital status and political party affiliation.
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Study Purpose View help for Study Purpose
The purpose of the survey was to investigate why members left Congress and the role of job satisfaction in that decision.
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All former members of the House of Representatives who retired between 1970-1999 with known addresses were sent surveys.
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The data are not a sample.
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Former members of the House of Representatives (retired between 1970-1999)
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57%
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2016-10-24
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- Herrick, Rebekah. Job Satisfaction in the House of Representatives, 1999. ICPSR36584-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-10-24. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36584.v1
2016-10-24 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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