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Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN): Systematic Social Observation, 1995

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Principal Investigator(s): Earls, Felton J.; Raudenbush, Stephen W.; Reiss, Albert J., Jr.; Sampson, Robert J.

Summary: The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) was a large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development. One component of the PHDCN was the Systematic Social Observation (SSO). The SSO was a standardized approach for directly observing the physical, social, and economic characteristics of neighborhoods, one block at a time. In 1995, the PHDCN initiated a combined person-based and videotaped approach t... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR13578.v1

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