ICPSR - 7203 - Elmira Community Study, 1948

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Elmira Community Study, 1948
(Principal Investigator, Lazarsfeld, Paul F., Bernard R. Berelson, and William N. McPhee. )

Summary

The data were collected in four waves from a probability sample based upon the random selection of dwelling units within Elmira, New York. 1,029 respondents were interviewed in June 1948, 881 in August-September 1948, 814 in October, 1948, and 944 in November 1948. The first three waves have 2 cards of data per respondent, the fourth wave has 1 card of data per respondent. Up to four callbacks were made to try to keep as many respondents as possible in the sample. The major focus of the study was on social-psychological phenomena related to political decision-making and on certain aspects of political behavior, such as political interest, participation, information, and discussion. The specific social-psychological aspects of voting behavior investigated were labor unions and community organizations, social and ethnic differences, perceptions of group voting trends, the influence of family and friends, polarization between social groups, and other effects of the campaign on social groups. The political aspects of voting behavior studied were local political organizations, differences in respondents' political beliefs, perceptions of ideological stands taken by major candidates, the role of mass media in transmitting political information, and the effects on voters of specific campaign events. The data are multiply punched and are available in IBM column binary format.

Citation

Lazarsfeld, Paul F., Bernard R. Berelson, and William N. McPhee. ELMIRA COMMUNITY STUDY, 1948 [Computer file]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 197?.

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Filename (Size in KB)	LRECL Logical RECord Length	Dataset Details
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