Detroit Longitudinal Study, 1967 (ICPSR 7312)

Published: Feb 16, 1992

Principal Investigator(s):
Joel Aberbach; Jack Walker

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07312.v1

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Project Description

Summary

This survey asked Detroit area residents about satisfaction with their neighborhoods, police relations, racial discrimination, and perceptions of the 1967 riot and its consequences. In addition, the questionnaire measured feelings of political efficacy, political involvement, evaluations of various political personalities and social programs, and respondents' personal values and aspirations. Respondents' attitudes toward race relations were examined in a series of questions dealing with integration and separation of the races and an open-ended question that prompted respondents to define "Black power." Also included in this study are three derived measures: a general trust scale, an index assessing respondents' interpretations of the riot, and a political power index measuring respondents' perceptions of their ability to affect local and national laws. Questions also elicited background information, such as composition of respondents' parental families, level of education of parental figures, father's occupation, and parental influence on the respondents' job choices. Region and size of place of residence during childhood were also ascertained, as well as how long the respondent had lived in Detroit. Demographic data include age, sex, race, marital status, education and technical training, occupation, employment history, union membership, and service in the Armed Forces for the head of household. In all cases Black respondents were interviewed by Black interviewers and white respondents were interviewed by white interviewers.

Citation

Aberbach, Joel, and Walker, Jack. Detroit Longitudinal Study, 1967. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07312.v1

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Subject Terms

aspirations Black power Black White relations childhood Detroit riots (1967) educational background family life military service neighborhoods parental influence political attitudes police performance political efficacy political participation public opinion race relations racial attitudes riots social attitudes social problems social status trust in government voting behavior values

Geographic Coverage

Detroit United States Michigan

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1967

Date of Collection

1967-08 -- 1968-03

Methodology

Sample

Random sample (N=538), supplemented with a special sample (N=309) randomly drawn from the areas of Detroit where fires related to the 1967 civil disturbance were located.

Universe

People 16 years of age or older living in dwelling units in the city of Detroit, in Hamtramck and Highland Park (cities entirely enclosed within Detroit), and in Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Pointe Shores, Grosse Pointe Woods, Grosse Pointe Park, and Harper Woods (communities forming a wedge between the east side of Detroit and Lake St. Clair).

Data Source

personal interviews

Data Type(s)

survey data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1984-03-18

Version Date

1992-02-16

Version History

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.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
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