Convention Delegate Study of 1972: Women in Politics (ICPSR 7287)

Version Date: Feb 9, 1996

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Principal Investigator(s):
Warren E. Miller; Elizabeth Douvan; William Crotty; Jeane Kirkpatrick

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07287.v1

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Summary

This study consists of two analytically distinct parts. The first 351 variables contain information from 2,587 delegates to the Republican and Democratic national nominating conventions of 1972 who responded to a pre-convention mail questionnaire (response rate of 58 percent). Data for the next 381 variables were gathered in post-convention personal interviews with 1,336 respondents selected as a representative sample of delegates. Either segment of the data may be analyzed independently, or the appropriate subset of merged data may be selected. The study focused on the changing role of women in politics, utilizing the nominating conventions as a means of defining and identifying an elite segment of the population and women in politics at one point in time. The mail questionnaire provided information on the nature and composition of each of the national conventions in terms of the delegates' personal life histories, political expectations and aspirations, and attitudes towards candidates, issues, and groups in society and at the conventions. The personal interview built on the pre-convention instrument and examined in depth the candidate selection process, the convention proceedings, and the psychological factors involved in women's political activity. Demographic data include age, sex, race, place of birth, marital status, number of children, ethnicity, education, parents' and spouse's levels of education, occupation, and family income.

Citation

Miller, Warren E., Douvan, Elizabeth, Crotty, William, and Kirkpatrick, Jeane. Convention Delegate Study of 1972:  Women in Politics. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1996-02-09. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07287.v1

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Funding

Russell Sage Foundation, Twentieth Century Fund

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Restrictions

To preserve the confidentiality of individual respondents in this elite population, certain identifying variables were restricted from general dissemination. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete an Agreement for the Use of Confidential Data, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research. Apply for access to these data through the ICPSR Restricted Data Contract Portal, which can be accessed via the study home page.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1972

Date of Collection

1972
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Sample

Representative sample.

Universe

All official delegates to the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1972.

Data Source

mailback questionnaires and personal interviews

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1984-05-08

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:
  • Miller, Warren E., Elizabeth Douvan, William Crotty, and Jeane Kirkpatrick. Convention Delegate Study of 1972: Women in Politics. ICPSR07287-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1976. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07287.v1

1984-05-08 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:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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