United States Congressional Survey, 1975 (ICPSR 7377)
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United Nations Association of the United States of America
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07377.v1
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This study, conducted in January 1975, explored the views on foreign affairs of members of the United States House of Representatives. Three main areas were investigated: attitudes toward the United Nations, attitudes toward foreign aid, and attitudes toward detente with the Soviet Union. A total of 309 out of 435 House members offices responded, and in many cases questions were answered on behalf of the House members by their chief legislative assistants for foreign affairs.
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The survey instrument was designed by members of the United Nations Association of the United States of America staff, and initial data preparation was performed by the Social Science Computation Center of the Brookings Institution.
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The sample included the entire population. The response rate was 71 percent. The distribution among respondents of characteristics like length of service, geographical area represented, and party affiliation closely corresponded to that of the entire House.
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Members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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self-enumerated questionnaires, personal interviews, and telephone interviews
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1984-05-03
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- United Nations Association of the United States of America. UNITED STATES CONGRESSIONAL SURVEY, 1975. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1976. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07377.v1
1984-05-03 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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