ICPSR - 7204 - Erie County Study, 1940

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Erie County Study, 1940
(Principal Investigator, Lazarsfeld, Paul F., Bernard R. Berelson, and Hazel Gaudet. )

Summary

The data were collected from among four groups of approximately 600 persons each, originally selected by a random stratified sample of Erie County, Ohio. Of the four groups, three were reinterviewed only once. The fourth group of 600 respondents formed the core of the panel sample and were interviewed monthly from May to November 1940. There are 4 cards of data per respondent. The investigators were most interested in studying the dynamic process of the formation, change, and development of public opinion and political attitudes. Special efforts were made to follow changes in voting intentions and to gather data on possible intervening variables in the attitude change process. The major variables studied were respondent perceptions of the social and ideological differences between parties, participation in the campaign, the role of expectations, political information networks, the role of personal relationships and social groups, the political history of the respondents and their family, issue opinions, and personality measures. The data are multiply punched and are available in IBM column binary format.

Citation

Lazarsfeld, Paul F., Bernard R. Berelson, and Hazel Gaudet. ERIE COUNTY STUDY, 1940 [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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da7204pd (461K)	160	Data file for study 7204
da7204da (96K)	160	Data file for study 7204
da7204db (95K)	160	Data file for study 7204
da7204dc (97K)	160	Data file for study 7204

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