Survey of City Council Members in Large American Cities, 1982 (ICPSR 8655)
Version Date: Mar 5, 2007 View help for published
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Susan Welch;
Timothy Bledsoe
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08655.v1
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This datafile consists of the responses to a mail questionnaire sent to randomly selected city council members in large American cities. The study was designed to explore the relationship between local political structure and the personal characteristics, representational styles, and policy perspectives of city council members. The respondents were asked questions about a broad variety of topics, such as factors influencing their decision to run for council, perceptions of sources of conflict within the council and community, the political structure of their city, and perceptions of how well they represent the variety of constituencies within the community. Background information, such as age, sex, political party, principal occupation, and highest level of education attained is also provided on each survey respondent.
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In order to preserve the confidentility of respondents, certain variables have been omitted from the datafile and codebook.
Sample View help for Sample
Stratified random sample.
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City Council members in large American cities with populations between 50,000 and 1,000,000.
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direct mail survey
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1988-01-06
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- Welch, Susan, and Timothy Bledsoe. SURVEY OF CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS IN LARGE AMERICAN CITIES, 1982. Susan Welch, University of Nebraska, and Timothy Bledsoe, University of South Carolina [producers], 1982. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-03-05. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08655.v1
2007-03-05 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files have been added to this data collection.
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These data are freely available to data users at ICPSR member institutions. The curation and dissemination of this study are provided by the institutional members of ICPSR. How do I access ICPSR data if I am not at a member institution?