Detroit Area Study, 1959: The Vitality of Supernatural Experience and a Fiscal Research Program (ICPSR 7323)
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Guy Swanson;
Harvey Brazer
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07323.v2
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This study of 767 adults in the Detroit metropolitan area provides information on their religious beliefs and practices, as well as their feelings about various forms of taxation such as sales tax, income tax, and property tax. The collection was a combination of two separate studies: THE VITALITY OF SUPERNATURAL EXPERIENCE by Guy Swanson, and A FISCAL RESEARCH PROGRAM by Harvey Brazer. Respondents were asked about their beliefs in the existence and characteristics of God, the amount of influence they felt that God had in their life, and how they thought God would feel about various situations. Also explored was the membership and level of activity in formal organizations for both the respondent and the respondent's spouse. The respondent was also asked to evaluate the performance of several institutions and professional groups such as colleges, their position on televisions in classrooms, the Federal Courts, doctors, and scientists. In addition, the respondent was asked to list the problems in the United States that were badly in need of resolution and to evaluate who was to blame for the problems and what could be done to solve them. Other items probed the respondent's opinions of educational television stations, the comparative quality of utility companies' services, government spending, and the most important things in life. Attitudes toward the use of taxes or use fees to pay for parks and garbage collection were also elicited. Demographic variables specify age, sex, race, education, place of birth, marital status, occupation, length of residence in the Detroit area, home ownership, length of time at present residence, number of children, original nationality of husband's and wife's family, political affiliation, and amount and sources of income.
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Unknown Codes: The following variables show frequencies for values without explicit labels and were therefore labeled as unknown: V465, V467, V468, V469, V482, V488, V489
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Documentation Note: V60 "Variable exists on the archives tape but is not recorded in the codebook. Values range 0-7".
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A multistage sample of 767 adults aged 21 and older in households in the Detroit metropolitan area in 1959.
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personal interviews
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1984-07-02
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2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
- Swanson, Guy, and Harvey Brazer. Detroit Area Study, 1959: The Vitality of Supernatural Experience and a Fiscal Research Program. ICPSR07323-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-09-30. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07323.v2
2010-09-30 SAS, SPSS, and Stata ready-to-go files were added.
1984-07-02 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:
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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