Survey of Chicago African Americans, 1997 (ICPSR 38165)
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Paul M. Sniderman, Stanford University;
Thomas Piazza, University of California, Berkeley
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38165.v1
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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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This was one of a series of studies focusing primarily on racial attitudes, politics, and prejudice carried out under the lead of Paul M. Sniderman of Stanford University and Thomas Piazza of the University of California, Berkeley. These studies were designed to incorporate several experiments into computer-assisted surveys. The computer randomly asked certain questions of some respondents and not others, or questions were asked of everyone but in a different way. Explanation of which variables and how they were effected are detailed at the beginning of several sections in the P.I. Codebook
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The purpose of this study was to focus on the racial attitudes, political ideology, and racial solidarity carried by African Americans in Chicago during 1997.
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This is a one-time cross-sectional two-framed study that randomly selected African American individuals in a household and performed a survey via telephone. The study completed 756 interviews out of the 1,053 households with African Americans.
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The sample was a dual frame telephone sample of high proportion-black areas of Chicago. One frame was a directory sample drawn from listings having a high probability of being located in a set of census tracts with 80 percent or more blacks, according to the 1990 Census.
The second frame was a list-assisted random-digit sample drawn from those telephone prefixes having a high probability of being located in the same set of census tracts included in the directory portion of the overall sample -- namely, those tracts with 80 percent or more blacks, according to the 1990 Census.
Households were first screened for the presence of African American adults aged 18 and older. If more than one resided there, a list was made of the eligible adults and one adult was selected at random to be interviewed. See Appendix A of the original P.I. codebook for more information on the sampling procedures.
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African American persons aged 18 and older living in households with telephones.
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Variables include demographic variables such as race, age, religion, and political party identification as well as variables on the respondents beliefs about politics, including beliefs about other demographic groups.
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Of the 1,967 selected telephone numbers, 1,162 (78.7 percent) were successfully screened for African Americans. Of the 1,053 households with African Americans, 756 (71.8 percent) resulted in completed interviews. The product of those rates gives an overall response rate of 56.5 percent. See Appendix B of the original P.I. codebook for more details on the outcome of the fieldwork.
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Several Likert-type scales were used. Some feeling thermometers were also included.
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2022-07-18
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2022-07-18 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:
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A person-level weight is provided, which adjusts for differences in the probability of selection due to the number of eligible persons in each selected household. This weight was adjusted further for differences in the probability of selection of telephone numbers coming from the two different sampling frames.
See Appendix A of the original P.I. codebook for more information on the creation of the weights.
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