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Survey of Chicago African Americans, 1997 (ICPSR 38165)
Released/updated on: 2022-07-18
Geographic coverage: United States, Chicago
Time period: 1997-02-10--1997-08-03
The Survey of Chicago African Americans was a telephone survey of African Americans aged 18 years or older, residing in those areas of the city of Chicago with a high proportion of black residents. The survey included many questions related to racial identity and solidarity and attitudes about other groups. The survey also focused on support for racial policies and on commitment to common American values.
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San Francisco Bay Area Race and Politics Survey, 1986 (ICPSR 38168)
Released/updated on: 2022-07-05
Geographic coverage: San Francisco, United States, California, Oakland
Time period: 1986-08-04--1986-11-02
The 1986 Bay Area Race and Politics Survey was a random-digit telephone survey of residents of the San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan area. The questions focused primarily on issues of race, politics, and prejudice. There were also several items on the role of women. The survey included many experimental variations in question wording that were developed specifically for this study. This was the first survey to incorporate major substantive experiments into computer-assisted interviews. The Survey Research Center of the University of California, Berkeley, conducted the survey from August through October 1986, using the CASES system for computer-assisted telephone interviewing. Interviews were completed with 1,113 persons, and the response rate was 68.1 percent.
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National Race and Politics Survey, United States, 1991 (ICPSR 38172)
Released/updated on: 2022-04-21
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1991-02-01--1991-11-30
The 1991 National Race and Politics Survey was a nationwide random-digit telephone survey carried out by the Survey Research Center of the University of California, Berkeley. A mailback survey of willing respondents to the telephone survey was also carried out. Data from the mailback survey are also included in the data file.
The telephone and mailback surveys included many questions related to racial attitudes and political orientation. There were also many questions on values, personality measures, and goals. A multi-disciplinary research team planned the survey and developed the questionnaire. The telephone interview was a computer-assisted survey that incorporated many randomized experiments, including vignettes and unobtrusive measures.
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General Social Survey, 1972-2014 [Cumulative File] (ICPSR 36319)
Released/updated on: 2016-03-14
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1972-01-01--2014-12-31
Since 1972, the General Social Survey (GSS) has been monitoring societal change and studying the growing complexity of American society. The GSS aims to gather data on contemporary American society in order to monitor and explain trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes; to examine the structure and functioning of society in general as well as the role played by relevant subgroups; to compare the United States to other societies in order to place American society in comparative perspective and develop cross-national models of human society; and to make high-quality data easily accessible to scholars, students, policy makers, and others, with minimal cost and waiting. GSS questions include such items as national spending priorities, marijuana use, crime and punishment, race relations, quality of life, and confidence in institutions. Since 1988, the GSS has also collected data on sexual behavior including number of sex partners, frequency of intercourse, extramarital relationships, and sex with prostitutes. The 2014 GSS has modules on quality of working life, shared capitalism, wealth, work and family balance, social identity, social isolation, and civic participation. In 1985 the GSS co-founded the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). The ISSP has conducted an annual cross-national survey each year since then and has involved 58 countries and interviewed over one million respondents. The ISSP asks an identical battery of questions in all countries; the U.S. version of these questions is incorporated into the GSS. The 2014 ISSP topics are National Identity and Citizenship. Demographic variables include age, gender, race, ethnicity, education, marital status, religion, employment status, income, household structure, and whether respondents were born in the United States.
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General Social Survey, 1972-2012 [Cumulative File] (ICPSR 34802)
Released/updated on: 2013-09-11
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1972-01-01--2012-12-31
The General Social Surveys (GSS) were designed as part of a data diffusion project in 1972. The GSS replicated questionnaire items and wording in order to facilitate time-trend studies. The latest survey, GSS 2012, includes a cumulative file that merges all 29 General Social Surveys into a single file containing data from 1972 to 2012. The items appearing in the surveys are one of three types: Permanent questions that occur on each survey, rotating questions that appear on two out of every three surveys (1973, 1974, and 1976, or 1973, 1975, and 1976), and a few occasional questions such as split ballot experiments that occur in a single survey. The 2012 surveys included seven topic modules: Jewish identity, generosity, workplace violence, science, skin tone, and modules for experimental and miscellaneous questions. The International Social Survey Program (ISSP) module included in the 2012 survey was gender. The data also contain several variables describing the demographic characteristics of the respondents.
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General Social Survey, 1972-2010 [Cumulative File] (ICPSR 31521)
Released/updated on: 2013-02-07
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1972-01-01--2010-12-31
The General Social Surveys (GSS) were designed as part of a data diffusion project in 1972. The GSS replicated questionnaire items and wording in order to facilitate time-trend studies. The latest survey, GSS 2010, includes a cumulative file that merges all 28 General Social Surveys into a single file containing data from 1972 to 2010. The items appearing in the surveys are one of three types: Permanent questions that occur on each survey, rotating questions that appear on two out of every three surveys (1973, 1974, and 1976, or 1973, 1975, and 1976), and a few occasional questions such as split ballot experiments that occur in a single survey. The 2010 surveys included four topic modules: quality of working life, science, shared capitalism, and CDC high risk behaviors. The International Social Survey Program (ISSP) module included in the 2010 survey was environment. The data also contain several variables describing the demographic characteristics of the respondents.
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ABC News Religion Poll, March 1997 (ICPSR 2179)
Released/updated on: 2006-12-01
Geographic coverage: United States
This special topic poll sought respondents' views on the Bill Clinton presidency, while primarily focusing on the presence of religion in respondents' lives. Those queried were asked to explain their religious upbringing and to compare it to their current feelings toward religion. Respondents were asked for their opinions on anti-Semitism, interracial marriage, interfaith marriage, jokes about the Pope, and the Bible's message regarding the differences between Blacks and whites. A series of questions asked respondents whether they believed in the following Christian tenets: Jesus Christ died on the cross, Jesus Christ is the son of God, Jesus Christ rose from the dead, and the existence of God. Additional topics covered whether God is a man or a woman, whether Jews were responsible for the death of Christ, and the meaning of the Bible's stories to the respondent. Demographic variables include age, education, race, sex, and religion.
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German Weimar Republic Data, 1919-1933 (ICPSR 42)
Released/updated on: 2005-12-22
Geographic coverage: Germany
Time period: 1919-01-01--1933-12-31
This data collection contains electoral and demographic data at several levels of aggregation (kreis, land/regierungsberzirk, and wahlkreis) for Germany in the Weimar Republic period of 1919-1933. Two datasets are available. Part 1, 1919 Data, presents raw and percentagized election returns at the wahlkreis level for the 1919 election to the Nationalversammlung. Information is provided on the number and percentage of eligible voters and the total votes cast for parties such as the German National People's Party, German People's Party, Christian People's Party, German Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party, and Independent Social Democratic Party. Part 2, 1920-1933 Data, consists of returns for elections to the Reichstag, 1920-1933, and for the Reichsprasident elections of 1925 and 1932 (including runoff elections in each year), returns for two national referenda, held in 1926 and 1929, and data pertaining to urban population, religion, and occupations, taken from the German Census of 1925. This second dataset contains data at several levels of aggregation and is a merged file. Crosstemporal discrepancies, such as changes in the names of the geographical units and the disappearance of units, have been adjusted for whenever possible. Variables in this file provide information for the total number and percentage of eligible voters and votes cast for parties, including the German Nationalist People's Party, German People's Party, German Center Party, German Democratic Party, German Social Democratic Party, German Communist Party, Bavarian People's Party, Nationalist-Socialist German Workers' Party (Hitler's movement), German Middle Class Party, German Business and Labor Party, Conservative People's Party, and other parties. Data are also provided for the total number and percentage of votes cast in the Reichsprasident elections of 1925 and 1932 for candidates Jarres, Held, Ludendorff, Braun, Marx, Hellpach, Thalman, Hitler, Duesterburg, Von Hindenburg, Winter, and others. Additional variables provide information on occupations in the country, including the number of wage earners employed in agriculture, industry and manufacturing, trade and transportation, civil service, army and navy, clergy, public health, welfare, domestic and personal services, and unknown occupations. Other census data cover the total number of wage earners in the labor force and the number of female wage earners employed in all occupations. Also provided is the percentage of the total population living in towns with 5,000 inhabitants or more, and the number and percentage of the population who were Protestants, Catholics, and Jews.
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Detroit Area Study, 1997: Social Change in Religion and Child Rearing (ICPSR 4120)
Released/updated on: 2005-06-02
Geographic coverage: Detroit, United States, Michigan
Time period: 1997-01-01--1997-12-31
For this survey, respondents from three counties in the Detroit, Michigan, area were queried about their work, health, marriage and family, finances, political views, religion, and child rearing. With respect to finances, respondent views were elicited on credit card purchases, recording expenditures, and savings and investments. Regarding political views, respondents were questioned about political preferences, presidential values, freedom of speech, nuclear war, and the interest of public officials. Questions also addressed religious beliefs and experiences, including the religiosity of respondents' parents, belief in and relationship with God, the relationship between science and religion, school prayer, divorce, and homosexuality. Additional religious questions -- based on the respondents' religious preference (i.e., Protestant, Catholic, Jew, Other Religion, or No Preference/Agnostic/Atheist Only) -- also were asked, covering topics such as interfaith marriages, religion of friends, and observance of religious holy days. Questions were asked about the views of respondents' religious leaders on issues including drinking, abortion, and test-tube fertilization. Regarding child rearing, views were elicited on issues including religious preference of child(ren) raised, religious training given to child(ren), and frequency of prayer before meals. Background information includes marital status, employment, political orientation, and income.
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WABC-TV/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Race Relations Poll, January 1988 (ICPSR 9187)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-17
Geographic coverage: New York City, United States, New York (state)
Time period: 1988-01-05--1988-01-06
This data collection examines race relations in New York City. Respondents were asked to name the most important black leader in New York City and to give their opinions on whether income and living conditions were getting better or worse for most blacks and whether there was more or less anti-white/anti-black feeling among members of the other race. In addition, respondents were asked if they agreed or disagreed with these statements: 1) The police and the courts treat blacks as fairly as they treat whites, 2) If blacks tried harder they could be just as well off as whites, 3) Discrimination has unfairly held blacks down but many problems today are brought on by blacks themselves, and 4) Blacks have been held back because Jews control the educational system in the city. Additional topics covered include the Howard Beach incident in which several white youths were found guilty of manslaughter in the death of a black youth, the selection of the black educator Richard Green as chancellor of the city schools, and the respondent's opinion of several public figures. Background information on respondents includes religion, race, sex, and borough of residence.
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Northern California Church Member Study, 1963 (ICPSR 7590)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: San Francisco, United States, California
Time period: 1963-01-01--1963-12-31
This data collection contains survey data on 2,871 church members residing in the San Francisco Bay area in 1963. The main research objective of the study was to assess the degree to which certain interpretations of Christian faith may continue to be a source of contemporary anti-Semitism. The primary focus of the questionnaire was the examination of respondents' religious knowledge, activities, beliefs, experiences, and intergroup relations, as well as their attitudes toward other religious and cultural groups, specifically Jews. In addition, they were asked their opinion on the appropriateness of denominations taking stands on current social and political issues and were questioned on their religious background and the role that religion played in their lives. Personal data were also solicited, including other organizational memberships, television viewing, book reading habits, political affiliation, occupation, education, marital status, number of children, sex, and race. The file also includes 48 derived measures.
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Anti-Semitism in the United States, 1964 (ICPSR 7310)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1964-01-01--1964-12-31
This nationwide study investigated respondents' opinions on
current affairs at both the national and international levels. Issues
such as morality in the United States, approval of the United Nations,
and the positon of the United States in world affairs were explored,
as well as attitudes toward the Constitution and individual
rights. Respondents were asked about their feelings toward minority
groups such as the John Birch Society, communists, and Blacks, with
special emphasis on the Jewish minority. Respondents' beliefs about
Jews as a group, their contacts with Jews, and their feelings about
political and social rights of Jews in the United States were
probed. Past treatment of the Jewish people was also explored, and the
respondents were asked to compare Jews with other groups in the United
States on the basis of ambition, wealth, intelligence, and power. A
number of variables assessed the respondents' leisure activities,
their religious beliefs and education, and their outlooks on
life. Derived measures include indexes such as anti-Semitic beliefs,
Index of Jewish contacts, Fascism Scale, Despair Scale, Tolerance of
Cultural Diversity Index, Enlightenment Values Scale, Anomie Scale,
Political Anxiety Scale, Self-Image Scale, Libertarian Index, and
Monism Scale. Demographic data include sex, race, age, education,
income, religion, home ownership, marital status, and number of
children. The study was received from the International Data Library
and Reference Service, Survey Research Center, University of
California at Berkeley.