Michigan Law and Social Work Study, 2017 (ICPSR 38470)
Version Date: Nov 13, 2023 View help for published
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Patrick Meehan, University of Michigan
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38470.v1
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Fielded in the winter of 2017, the Michigan Law and Social Work Study (MLSWS) is a non-probability sample of 745 MSW and JD students at four universities in Michigan on their political behavior, including interest in running for office. The survey instrument includes an experiment that tests the relationship between how elected office is framed and respondents' interest in running. There is a control condition, an ambition condition, and a social good condition. Many items on the survey instrument were designed to distract respondents from the experiment. Additional items on the survey instrument include party ID, perceived barriers to running for office, as well as the effectiveness of elected office as a way of making a difference in the community against alternative ways of making a difference.
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University campus
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Study Purpose View help for Study Purpose
The purpose of this study was to examine participants' political behavior, including interest in running for office. The survey instrument included an experiment that tests the relationship between how elected office was framed and respondents' interest in running.
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Respondents were emailed a link to complete the survey through their institution's listserv. Those who completed the survey could elect to receive a $5 Amazon gift card.
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Non-probability sampling based on university email listservs.
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MSW and JD students at four universities across Michigan.
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This study includes variables on participants' opinions on running for office, their political beliefs, their opinions about their graduate school program, and demographic variables such as race, ethnicity, age, and marital status. There are also variables that were designed to distract respondents from the experiment.
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The response rate at the University of Michigan was 22.8% for MSW students and 29.9% for JD students. Response rates for other schools were not provided.
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2023-11-13
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2023-11-13 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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