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American Political Event Data, 1968-1972 (ICPSR 7576)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1968-01-01--1972-01-01
Using a political event coding system, this data collection describes 8,768 events and press items sampled from 42,000 entries in THE NEW YORK TIMES between 1968 and 1972. These data were generated in order to apply events data to the study of the emergence and processing of political issues in the United States and to test a number of hypotheses regarding the types of events associated with various political issues. Approximately 4,600 cases are events in which an actor attempts to influence a target. The remaining cases are reports of press items such as editorials and columns. The data include: (1) whether it was a political event (i.e., one in which an actor directs some action toward a target in a political system in order to influence the behavior of the target) or a press item (i.e., information about the domestic issue from either a newspaper column or a newspaper editorial), (2) the domestic issue (one of 40 possible categories), (3) the domestic subissue, (4) the date and the page of the newspaper in which the article describing the event was found, (5) the press treatment or coverage of the event, (6) the actor initiating the event (coded in one of 100 categories including both governmental and nongovernmental actors), (7) the federal role favored by the actor regarding the issue, (8) whether the actor specialized in dealing with the issue, (9) type of action initiated by the actor, (10) the mode of action, (11) the target of the event, and (12) the weight of the event or press item.
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Decision-Related Research on the Organization of Service Delivery Systems in Metropolitan Areas: Solid Waste Management (ICPSR 7487)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Time period: 1966-01-01--1975-01-01
This study represents one of four research projects on service delivery systems in metropolitan areas, covering fire protection (DECISION-RELATED RESEARCH ON THE ORGANIZATION OF SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEMS IN METROPOLITAN AREAS: FIRE PROTECTION [ICPSR 7409]), police protection (DECISION-RELATED RESEARCH ON THE ORGANIZATION OF SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEMS IN METROPOLITAN AREAS: POLICE PROTECTION [ICPSR 7427]), public health (DECISION-RELATED RESEARCH ON THE ORGANIZATION OF SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEMS IN METROPOLITAN AREAS: PUBLIC HEALTH [ICPSR 7374]), and solid waste management (the present study). All four projects used a common unit of analysis, namely all 200 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs) that, according to the 1970 Census, had a population of less than 1,500,000 and were entirely located within a single state. In each project, a limited amount of information was collected for all 200 SMSAs. More extensive data were gathered within independently drawn samples of these SMSAs, for all local geographical units and each administrative jurisdiction or agency in the service delivery areas. Two standardized systems of geocoding -- the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) codes and the Office of Revenue Sharing (ORS) codes -- were used, so that data from various sources could be combined. The use of these two coding schemes also allows users to combine data from two or more of the research projects conducted in conjunction with the present one, or to add data from a wide variety of public data files. The present study investigated the delivery of solid waste collection and disposal service, focusing on the differences in efficiency and effectiveness of the public and private sectors. Six major research tasks were undertaken in the first phase of the project: identification of the prevalence of alternative collection arrangement types, analysis of prevailing solid waste collection practices, analysis of cost components of residential refuse collection, econometric analyses of the relative efficiency of the three main arrangement types (municipal collection, local contract service, and franchised service), efficiency of alternative regulatory schemes for residential solid waste collection, and identification of prevailing service arrangements for solid waste disposal. For the purposes of the study, estimates of true cost were made from a variety of data sources. The basic research instrument was a telephone survey conducted in 1,377 cities with populations exceeding 2,500, located in the 200 previously selected SMSAs. This survey obtained information on the means of collection, means of payment, quality of service, and coverage of households. In 102 of these cities, subsequent field visits were used to obtain cost information for municipal collection. In an additional 163 cities, where individuals arranged for their own collection, a telephone survey of households was conducted to identify contracting firms and to ascertain the quality of service. Additional data were collected from 42 franchise operators and from contractors in 242 cities. Legal information was collected on contract and ordinance provisions, regulatory matters, and state law relating to arrangements for the provision of these kinds of services. Information from these sources was combined with data obtained from the International City Management Association and the 1970 Census of Housing and Population. Part 1 contains all the data collected at the city level. Part 2 provides information for the 281 counties in which the 1,377 municipalities were located.
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Experiments in Financial Liberalization: The Mexican Banking Sector (ICPSR 20962)
Released/updated on: 2007-09-14
Geographic coverage: Mexico, Global
Since the liberalization of its trade in the mid-1980s, Mexico has pursued an aggressive globalization strategy, which today makes it the country with the most free trade agreements in the world. This liberalization strategy has also included the banking sector, particularly since 1997, when all restrictions to the entry of foreign banks were removed. The history of the banking sector in Mexico includes episodes of nationalization in 1982, privatization in 1992, and near-complete failure in 1995. Since then, however, the Mexican government has undertaken a series of bold reforms that have contributed to the modernization of its financial system. This paper documents the evolution of Mexico's banking sector starting from its nationalization in 1982 and culminating with the increased entry of foreign banks in recent years that has driven the recovery of bank credit to the private sector.
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Simple Crosstabs
National Organizations Survey, 2010: Examining the Relationships Between Job Quality and the Domestic and International Sourcing of Business Functions by United States Organizations (ICPSR 35011)
Released/updated on: 2014-05-30
Geographic coverage: United States
The National Organizations Survey, 2010 (2010 NOS) aimed to quantify domestic and international sourcing of United States private and public sector organizations. Information was supplied by 333 respondents about their organization's domestic and international sourcing costs. Variables in this data collection include the organizations employee's benefits (such as the retirement benefits, health benefits, and wage) and the organization's expenditure for eight business functions: (1) the primary function, (2) research and development of products, services or technology, (3) sales and marketing, (4) transportation, logistics, and distribution services, (5) customer and after-sales service, (6) management, administration, and back office functions, (7) information technology systems, and (8) facilities maintenance. The sourcing costs were either incurred domestically in-house, externally from domestic suppliers, from international affiliates, or externally from international suppliers. For companies engaged in international sourcing, information about the type of international location was identified as (1) industrialized country locations with costs the same or higher than the United States, (2) emerging country locations with costs somewhat lower than the United States, and (3) developing country locations with costs much lower than the United States. United States employment and wages (according to four ranges) were also collected by business function. The data collection also includes information about each organization's industry and job turnover.
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Social Organization of the United States National Labor Policy Domain, 1981-1987 (ICPSR 9802)
Released/updated on: 1993-02-12
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1981-01-01--1987-01-01
The purpose of this data collection is to provide information about the process by which various organizations become involved in debates about national labor policy. A policy domain is a set of organizations, both governmental and in the private sector, operating at the federal level and seeking to influence the decisions of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government in some substantive arena--in this case, the regulation of labor practices. The central issue of the research is how the social structure of relationships among organizations in the national labor policy domain affect the processes by which policy proposals are generated, placed on the national political agenda, and subsequently enacted or blocked. To address this issue, the most active organizations in the United States labor policy domain were identified and contacted for interviews. A knowledgeable representative from each organization, typically a director of governmental affairs, was asked a battery of questions about his or her organization's involvement in shaping national policies. The general scope of these questions was (1) What particular issues in the labor field are of interest to the organization? (2) In what specific policy events between 1981 and 1987 did the organization participate, and what was the nature of that involvement? (3) What general patterns of interaction does the organization have with other participants in the national labor policy domain? Variables in the collection include collective bargaining regulations, participation of labor in management and control of enterprises, employee stock ownership plans, and internal organization and governance of labor unions and employer associations. Other items cover working conditions (safety and physical conditions), employment conditions (hiring, promotion, firing, layoff, retirement, time, and wages), social policies (pensions, insurance, maternity leave, and job rights), disadvantaged populations in the labor market (women, minorities, the handicapped, youth, the elderly, veterans, welfare, vocational education and retraining), discrimination in employment, and labor market policies (job creation, immigration, underground economy, and plant closings).
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Washington, DC, Representatives: Private Interests in National Policymaking, 1982-1983 (ICPSR 6040)
Released/updated on: 2009-04-07
Geographic coverage: District of Columbia, United States
Time period: 1982-01-01--1983-01-01
This study was undertaken to research systematically the
process through which private and governmental actors in United States
federal policy systems make decisions. A primary focus was the ways in
which individual private representatives of interest groups in
Washington, DC, interact with the agencies of the federal government.
The data are drawn from interviews conducted in 1983-1984 with samples
of two distinct populations: Washington representatives, and American
Bar Foundation client organizations that employ Washington
representatives. The scope of the inquiry was narrowed to four
particular policy domains: agriculture, energy, health, and labor. Each
domain was operationally defined by a list of specific policy concerns.
Questions were structured around specific policy proposals acted upon
by Congress in 1979-1982: 22 in agriculture, 13 in energy, 22 in
health, and 22 in labor. Respondents were asked to rate the importance
of various information sources, and to give their positions on general
social and political issues. Background data collected on respondents
included participation in electoral politics, political party
membership, religious preference, nationality, age, tenure in
Washington, race, sex, and parents' occupation and political party
affiliations.