Milwaukee Study of Civil Disorder, 1967
Study Description
Table of Contents
- Unique Identification Number
- Type of File
- Methodology
- Summary
- Geographic Coverage
- Descriptors
- Technical Notes
- Unique Identification Number:
- SM-006-001-1-2-USA-DPLS-1967
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- Type of File:
- Numeric.
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- Methodology:
- This report is based on data from 387 interviews conducted with
Milwaukee County residents. For analysis purposes, the county
was divided into three parts: (1) the "inner city,"
the area cordoned off by law enforcement officials (between 1st and
27th streets, Juneau Avenue, and Capitol Drive), an area which includes
the black ghetto; (2) the "outer city," the rest of the
city of Milwaukee; and (3) the "suburbs," the county outside
the city limits.
A probability sample of households was drawn from the Milwaukee
City Directory and relevant suburban listings by the Sampling
Section of the Wisconsin Survey Research Laboratory. A supplementary
block sample was also drawn to check Directory errors that
might arise from changing usage of structures since the compilation
of the Directory. In order to assure an adequate number
of black respondents, a higher sampling rate was utilized for the
cordoned-off area and one out of 975 for the remainder of the county.
See Research Methodology - Appendix A
for additional methodology information. (PDF format--84 KB.
Shift-click to download.) See Using
Documentation in PDF for help with Portable Document Format.
- Summary:
- The data set contains information pertaining to the attitudes of
Milwaukee residents during the civil disturbances of 1967 with regard
to actions taken, opinion of news coverage, opinion of people who
took part in the disturbance, opinions concerning the reasons for
the disturbances, personal reactions, opinions concerning what should
be done to correct the situation, personal opinion toward politicians,
personal job information, and background information of those interviewed.
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- Geographic Coverage:
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Descriptors:
- riot, disturbance, civil disorder, inner city, conflict, violence,
Milwaukee
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- Technical Notes:
- One raw ASCII data file merged from the original card-image version.
Logical record length equals 368, number of records (observations)
equals 387. Documentation is in hard copy in library, and scanned
as two PDF files. Use (free) Adobe Acrobat reader to read PDF files.
This edition of the Milwaukee Study of Civil Disorder, 1967
has been deposited at the Data and Program Library Service, University
of Wisconsin-Madison for distribution by Jonathan A. Slesinger, University
of Wisconsin.
All manuscripts utilizing data made available through the Data and
Program Library Service should acknowledge that fact as well as cite
the title of the study as indicated on the title page and sample catalog
statement and identify the original collector(s) of the data. All users
of these data are urged to follow some adaptation of this statement
with the parentheses indicating items to be completed or deleted appropriately
by the individual analyst.
The data (and tabulations) utilized in this publication were made
available (in part) by the Data and Program Library Service, University
of Wisconsin, Madison. The Milwaukee Study of Civil Disorder, 1967
was produced by Jonathan A. Slesinger, and is distributed by the Data
and Program Library Service. Neither Jonathan A. Slesinger,
nor the Data and Program Library Service bears any responsibility
for the analyses or interpretations presented here.
In order to provide funding agencies with essential information about
the use of archival resources and to facilitate the exchange of information
about DPLS participants' research activities, each user of these facilities
is expected to send two copies of each completed manuscript, thesis
abstract, or reprint to the Data and Program and Library Service.
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