Eight City Study of Child Political Socialization, 1961-1962 (ICPSR 7297)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
David Easton; Robert Hess

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07297.v1

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Summary

This study sought to measure children's early receptiveness to political concepts. A structured questionnaire was administered to a sample of white urban public school children in grades 2 through 8 from eight American cities: Boston, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine, Chicago, Illinois, Sioux City, Iowa, Atlanta, Georgia, Jackson, Mississippi, San Francisco, California, and Tacoma, Washington. Information was collected on attitudes toward real people and roles, opinions concerning the origin, relevance, and supremacy of laws, and cognizance of current affairs and issues. All grades were given the same physical questionnaire, but only grades 4 through 8 completed it in its entirety. Grades 2 and 3 stopped after they had reached their respective limits.

Citation

Easton, David, and Hess, Robert. Eight City Study of Child Political Socialization, 1961-1962. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07297.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1961 -- 1962

Date of Collection

1961 -- 1962
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Sample

The continental United States was divided into four regions: Northeast, Northcentral, South, and West. From each region two cities were chosen, one with a population greater than 1,000,000 and the other with a population ranging between 100,000 and 500,000. The cities were: Boston, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine, Chicago, Illinois, Sioux City, Iowa, Atlanta, Georgia, Jackson, Mississippi, San Francisco, California, and Tacoma, Washington. Within each city public schools were purposively chosen from "middle-class" and "working-class" areas. The sample was exclusively white.

Universe

Urban public school children in grades 2 through 8.

Data Source

self-enumerated questionnaires

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Original Release Date

1984-03-18

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:
  • Easton, David, and Robert Hess. Eight City Study of Child Political Socialization, 1961-1962. ICPSR07297-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1975. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07297.v1

1984-03-18 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:

  • Standardized missing values.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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