Public Attitudes Toward Lawyers and Legal Disputes, 1993: [United States] (ICPSR 6403)

Version Date: Nov 4, 2005

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Principal Investigator(s):
Terance D. Miethe

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06403.v1

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Summary

This data collection examines public attitudes, opinions, and experiences with respect to lawyers and legal disputes and the effects that prior experiences have on the future likelihood of using the law to settle disputes. Variables refer to types and outcomes of legal disputes, selection of lawyers, gender and age of lawyers, number of contacts, size of legal firms, the extent of services the lawyers provided to clients, and the behavior of lawyers. The unit of analysis is the individual.

Citation

Miethe, Terance D. Public Attitudes Toward Lawyers and Legal Disputes, 1993:  [United States]. [distributor], 2005-11-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06403.v1

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Funding

National Science Foundation (SES 9296170)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1993

Date of Collection

1993-03 -- 1993-04
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Sample

Proportionate sample stratified (by United States time zone) using random-digit dialing.

Universe

Adults in the United States living in households with telephones in 1993.

Data Source

telephone interviews

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1995-06-06

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:
  • Miethe, Terance D. PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD LAWYERS AND LEGAL DISPUTES, 1993: [UNITED STATES]. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1995. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06403.v1

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.

1995-06-06 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:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.