Organizational Behavior of the John Birch Society and Americans for Democratic Action, 1965 (ICPSR 7346)
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Frederick W. Jr. Grupp
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07346.v1
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This study, conducted in 1965, collected data from 650 members of the John Birch Society, and 769 members of Americans for Democratic Action. Respondents were asked to name the magazines, news columnists, and television news programs that they were most familiar with, and to list all groups they belonged to, specifying their position in those groups. In addition, the respondents were queried on needs for improvements in the government. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, income, occupation, and religion. The data were received from the Social Science Data Center at the University of Connecticut.
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Variable 2 is a filter for membership in one of the two organizations included in the study.
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Members of the John Birch Society and of Americans for Democratic Action.
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self-enumerated questionnaires
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1984-05-03
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- Grupp, Frederick W., Jr. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR OF THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY AND AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION, 1965. Storrs, CT: Frederick W. Grupp, Jr., University of Connecticut [producer], 1965. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1975. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07346.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:
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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