Survey of Tort Litigants in Three State Courts, 1989-1990: [United States] (ICPSR 9699)
Principal Investigator(s): Lind, Allan E.; Hensler, Deborah R.
Summary:
This survey examines the experiences of tort litigants in three state courts: (1) Bucks County, Pennsylvania, (2) Prince George's County, Maryland, and (3) Fairfax County, Virginia. The survey was administered using a Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) system. The most critical aspect of the CATI skip logic is that respondents were interviewed using different modules depending on their role in the dispute (plaintiff vs. defendant), the state/county, and the mode of resolution of their lawsuit. Questions were asked about the nature of the dispute, the plaintiff's financial losses, the defendant's report of damages claimed, events leading up to the lawsuit and finding a lawyer, arbitration cases, settlement conference cases, trial cases, bilateral settlement cases, costs of the lawsuit, social background, and overall evaluation of the experience.
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Citation
Lind, Allan E., and Deborah R. Hensler. Survey of Tort Litigants in Three State Courts, 1989-1990: [United States]. ICPSR09699-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09699.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09699.v1
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Funding
This survey was funded by:
- National Science Foundation. Law and Social Sciences Program
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: arbitration, courts, lawsuits
Geographic Coverage: Maryland, Pennsylvania, United States, Virginia
Time Period:
- 1989--1990
Date of Collection:
- 1989--1990
Data Types: survey data
Methodology
Data Source:
personal interviews
Extent of Processing: 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.
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 1992-05-12
Version History:
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 3 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
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