Citizen Attitude Survey: Urban Problems in Ten American Cities, 1970 (ICPSR 7340)

Published: Feb 16, 1992

Principal Investigator(s):
National League of Cities. Urban Observatory Program

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07340.v2

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Project Description

Summary

This study was a joint project of ten major United States cities participating in the Urban Observatory Program: Atlanta, Albuquerque, Baltimore, Boston, Denver, Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Milwaukee, Nashville, and San Diego. The survey focused on citizens' perceptions of the problems of urban life. Citizens' attitudes toward local government services and their opinions about local problems in the areas of schooling, housing, public transportation, controlled drugs, law and order, and taxes were assessed in all ten cities. Information on the socioeconomic status of the respondents, and on household composition was also elicited. Demographic data include sex, age, marital status, race, ethnicity, birthplace, level of education, and family income. Each city may be analyzed separately or may be treated as an integral part of the comparative study.

Citation

National League of Cities. Urban Observatory Program. Citizen Attitude Survey: Urban Problems in Ten American Cities, 1970. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07340.v2

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Funding

United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Subject Terms

cities citizen attitudes drugs government performance government services household composition housing law enforcement local government public opinion public transportation schools taxes urban areas urban problems

Geographic Coverage

Milwaukee United States Tennessee Albuquerque Kansas City (Kansas) Kansas City (Missouri) Nashville California Kansas San Diego Baltimore Atlanta New Mexico Massachusetts Colorado Missouri Denver Georgia Maryland Wisconsin Boston

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1970

Date of Collection

1970

Methodology

Sample

An independent sample was drawn from each of the cities included in the study. The samples were designed to represent a cross-section of all households within the politically-defined limits of each central city. They were drawn from the cities' directories and corrections were made with block supplements. Each household in a given city had an equal probability for selection. Within selected households, one adult was designated as respondent and no substitutions were permitted. The samples are not representative of the total United States population living in Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

Universe

Adult populations of Atlanta, Albuquerque, Baltimore, Boston, Denver, Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Milwaukee, Nashville, and San Diego.

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.

This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.