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ABC News Media Poll, January 1997 (ICPSR 2171)

Released/updated on: 2008-08-05
Geographic coverage: United States
This special topic poll, conducted January 6-7, 1997, sought respondents' views on national and local media practices. Respondents were asked to rate the ethics and honesty of television and print news media, as well as of politicians, corporations, average Americans, and the Clinton Administration. Those polled were asked whether they approved of the way national network television and local television stations reported the news, and whether the news media cared more about the accuracy of a story or being the first to report it. Views were also sought on the media's treatment of politicians, various socioeconomic classes, religious and political groups, celebrities, the military, the police, the government, and corporations. Respondents also rated their enjoyment of news reports on celebrities and politicians, and commented on the relevance of news stories to their lives. Additional topics covered the influence of network television news on viewers, the benefits and drawbacks of investigative news reporting, the media's respect or disrespect of privacy, the power of the media to limit political corruption and unfair business practices, and how often respondents watched television evening news programs. Demographic variables included sex, race, age, education level, household income, employment status, political party affiliation, political philosophy, and type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural).
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Aggregate Dynamics of Campaigns (ICPSR 26901)

Released/updated on: 2009-12-01
Geographic coverage: United States
Daily interactions between partisan elites, the media, and citizens are the driving dynamic of election campaigns and the central determinant of their outcomes. Accordingly, we develop a theory of campaign dynamics that departs from previous top-down models of campaign effects in its emphasis on the reciprocal campaign interactions between these actors. We examine these interactions with daily data on campaign expenditures, media coverage, and voter support in the 2000 presidential campaign. We find that partisan elites, the media, and citizens each played critical and interdependent roles in creating the dynamics of the campaign and producing the closest election in decades. We also find that the Gore campaign was hindered by its delayed responsiveness to the Bush campaign and its unwillingness to reinforce positive media coverage of Gore with increased campaign expenditures.
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Collective Knowledge Survey [Russia], 1994 (ICPSR 2882)

Released/updated on: 2000-04-18
Geographic coverage: Global, Russia
Time period: 1994-03-01--1994-04-01
These data explore the knowledge of adult Russians, residing west of the Ural mountains, about a set of events that occurred during the six decades between the Great Purge (1930s) and the beginning of glasnost (1980s). Through face-to-face interviews, respondents were asked about 11 concepts/events from the Soviet period in terms of whether they had heard of the events and, if so, what they referred to. The concepts/events included Yezhovshchina, the Doctors' Plot, the Virgin Lands Campaign, the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU, Laika, the Caribbean Crisis/Cuban Missile Crisis, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovic", Prague Spring, Katya Lycheva, "Repentance", and "Little Vera". Background information on respondents includes age, sex, education, nationality/ethnicity, languages spoken, household income, region of residence, and political party affiliation.
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An Exploratory Study of Labor Trafficking Among U.S. Citizen Victims, 2019-2020 (ICPSR 38137)

Released/updated on: 2024-02-13
Geographic coverage: New York City, San Diego, United States, Massachusetts, Alaska, Anchorage, California, New York (state), Boston
Time period: 2019-01-01--2020-01-01

Recent research has identified numerous challenges facing victims of labor trafficking in the U.S. (Owens, et al., 2014; Brennan, 2014). Most of the research on labor trafficking occurring in the U.S., however, has focused on the experiences of non-citizen and foreign national victims. There are many reasons to suspect that labor trafficking victimization occurs among U.S. citizens, although the identification of this phenomenon has been difficult. For example, the homeless and those with insecure housing, individuals with intellectual and physical disability, low-wage and transitional workers, and those working in illicit economic markets or within sexualized labor services are anticipated to be at higher risk for labor trafficking victimization.

In this exploratory mixed-methods study, the research team answered four main questions to help illuminate the phenomenon of labor trafficking of U.S. citizens.

  1. What are the personal, economic, or structural vulnerabilities that put U.S. citizens at risk for labor trafficking?
  2. What does labor trafficking looks like for U.S. citizens and where does it fall on a continuum of labor exploitation?
  3. How are U.S. citizens recruited into, move to, experience, and escape from labor trafficking victimization?
  4. How do U.S. citizen labor trafficking victims seek help or exit exploitative labor situations?

These questions were answered through surveys with individuals at high risk for labor trafficking victimization across four U.S. sites (n=240), individual interviews with a subsample of survey respondents (n=27), and interviews with service providers (n=20). The surveyed population were citizens who were born in the U.S., those who were naturalized citizens at the time of their victimization, and legal permanent residents. The sampling strategy relied on several snowball and purposive sampling techniques and were developed in partnership with social service agencies, government agencies, and community contacts with knowledge of or contact with labor trafficking in each of the sites. As such, the study was not designed to generate prevalence estimation or to claim any representativeness of labor trafficking violations among U.S. citizens.

This collection only includes the quantitative survey data. Qualitative interview data are not available.

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Open Budget Survey, 2006-2012 (ICPSR 34932)

Released/updated on: 2014-03-31
Geographic coverage: Middle East, United States, Asia, Europe, North Africa, Caribbean, North America, Global, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America
The Open Budget Survey evaluated whether central governments in countries around the world provided the public with access to budget information and opportunities to participate in the budget process. Beginning in 2006, the Open Budget Survey is conducted biennially in partnership with independent civil society researchers within each country. To measure the overall commitment of the countries surveyed to transparency and to allow for comparisons among countries, the International Budget Partnership created the Open Budget Index from the Open Budget Survey which assigned a score to each country based on the information it made available to the public throughout the budget process.
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