Freedom and Tolerance in the United States, 1987 (ICPSR 9454)

Version Date: Feb 23, 2010

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Principal Investigator(s):
James L. Gibson

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09454.v2

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Summary

The purpose of this data collection was to examine political tolerance and perceptions of personal freedom in the United States. Respondents were questioned regarding their feelings about social groups currently active in politics (e.g., the group most disliked, whether its members should be banned from running for public office, teaching in public schools, and making public speeches, and whether this group was threatening to the American way of life). Respondents also were asked for their opinions of government agencies, Congress, and the Supreme Court, including whether the government should allow public meetings to oppose the government and whether the power of the Supreme Court to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional should be eliminated. Additionally, respondents were queried about their political behavior (e.g., frequency of political discussions with co-workers, friends, casual acquaintances, and neighbors), about a variety of psychological and philosophical issues, and about their alcoholic drinking behavior.

Citation

Gibson, James L. Freedom and Tolerance in the United States, 1987. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-02-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09454.v2

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Funding

National Science Foundation (SES 86-06642)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1987

Date of Collection

1987-06 -- 1987-07

Data Collection Notes

  1. The raw data for this collection contain seven 92-character records per case.

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Sample

A panel (re-interview) was selected randomly, within gender strata, from respondents of 1987 General Social Survey, which was a national probability sample with a special oversample of Black respondents.

Universe

English-speaking persons 18 years of age and over, living in noninstitutional arrangements within the United States.

Data Source

personal interviews, and self-enumerated questionnaires

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Original Release Date

1991-03-05

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:
  • Gibson, James L. Freedom and Tolerance in the United States, 1987. ICPSR09454-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1991. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09454.v2

2010-02-23 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

1991-03-05 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 variable labels and/or value labels.
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