National Black Election Panel Study, 1984 and 1988 (ICPSR 9954)

Published: Jun 19, 2002

Principal Investigator(s):
James S. (James Sidney) Jackson, University of Michigan. Research Center for Group Dynamics

Series:

National Black Election Study Series

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09954.v1

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Project Description

Summary

This survey focuses on the attitudes and political preferences of the Black electorate during the 1984 and 1988 presidential elections. Questions regarding party identification, political interest, and preferences and choices for president were asked. In addition, respondents were asked about their feelings concerning Jesse Jackson's campaigns for the presidency in 1984 and 1988 and the effect his campaigns had on the elections. Information on race and gender issues, economic matters, quality of life, government spending, political participation, and religion and church politics is also included. Demographic information on respondents includes sex, age, education, marital status, income, and occupation and industry.

Citation

Jackson, James S. (James Sidney). National Black Election Panel Study, 1984 and 1988. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2002-06-19. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09954.v1

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Funding

Carnegie Corporation (845-0194 and 840-0462 (1984))

Ford Foundation (B5042 (1988))

Rockefeller Foundation

Subject Terms

African Americans economic conditions gender issues government spending Jesse Jackson minority voters political affiliation political attitudes political interest political issues political participation presidential campaigns presidential candidates presidential elections public opinion quality of life racial attitudes religious beliefs voter attitudes voting behavior voter preferences

Geographic Coverage

United States

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1984

1988

Methodology

Sample

Random-digit dialing. More information about the sampling methodology is contained in the article "Telephone Sample Designs for the U.S. Black Household Population," by Kathryn M. Inglis et al., which is provided within the study documentation.

Universe

All Black households in the United States with telephones.

Data Source

personal interviews

Data Type(s)

survey data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1993-10-11

Version Date

2002-06-19

Version History

1998-01-12 The codebook has been converted to a PDF file, and minor changes were made to the SAS and SPSS data definition statements.

1993-10-11 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.
Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

2002-06-19 The codebook has been revised to correct errors. The text for variables 3236-3261 and variables 4048-4101 had been shifted.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.

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