Job Satisfaction in the House of Representatives, 1999 (ICPSR 36584)

Version Date: Oct 24, 2016

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Principal Investigator(s):
Rebekah Herrick, Oklahoma State University

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36584.v1

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Summary

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.

Citation

Herrick, Rebekah. Job Satisfaction in the House of Representatives, 1999. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-10-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36584.v1

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Funding

Dirksen Congressional Center, Caterpillar Foundation

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

None

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Date of Collection

1999
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Study Purpose

The purpose of the survey was to investigate why members left Congress and the role of job satisfaction in that decision.

Study Design

All former members of the House of Representatives who retired between 1970-1999 with known addresses were sent surveys.

Sample

The data are not a sample.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Former members of the House of Representatives (retired between 1970-1999)

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

57%

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Original Release Date

2016-10-24

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • 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:

  • Created online analysis version with question text.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Weight

No weights are present and the data are not weighted.

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