Patterns of Interracial Politics:
Conflict and Cooperation in the
City of Milwaukee, 1970
Study Description
Table of Contents
- Unique Identification Number
- Type of File
- Methodology
- Summary
- Geographic Coverage
- Descriptors
- Technical Notes
- Cited References
- Unique Identification Number:
- SM-009-001-1-3-USA-DPLS-1970
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- Type of File:
- Numeric.
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- Methodology:
- See Study and Sample Design (PDF format--328
KB. Shift-click to download.)
See Using Documentation in PDF for help
with Portable Document Format.
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- Summary:
- The dataset contains responses to questions about important problems
facing Milwaukee and what the city government is doing about these
problems, Presidential and mayoral vote in 1968, degree of political
participation, level of political information on government, educational,
social welfare programs and officials, knowledge of and participation
in CAP, Model Cities, and consumer associations, attendance at meetings,
protest activities (types, reasons for, attendance, participation,
level of violence, arrests) and their affect on Milwaukee, blacks,
US and city governments, community control, educational policies,
quality of government in Milwaukee, political action to carry out
an objective, black-white relations. Demographic characteristics include
length of residency in neighborhood, in Milwaukee, birthplace, age,
employment status, participation in city job, family income in 1969,
membership in associations, educational attainment, birthplace and
nationality of parents, public assistance provided to family, race,
sex, age of children, housing unit.
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- Geographic Coverage:
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Descriptors:
- interracial politics, protest behavior, political protest, community
control, urban political integration, racial elites, political participation,
Milwaukee politics, attitude survey, race relations
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- Technical Notes:
- Two raw ASCII data files broken down into a "black sample"
and "white sample". Use PDF or hard copy codebooks for variable
locations and coding. (The two questionnaires are similar but not
identical.) Logical record length for each file is 387. BLACKSMP.DAT
has 246 records, and is 94 KB in size. WHITESMP.DAT has 331 records
and is 126 KB. The two data files are bundled together and compressed
for WWW distribution.
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- Cited References:
- Eisinger, Peter K. Patterns of Interracial Politics: Conflict
and Cooperation in the City, New York: Academic Press, 1976.
This edition of the Patterns of Interracial Politics: Conflict and
Cooperation in the City of Milwaukee, 1970 has been deposited at
the Data and Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin-Madison
for distribution by Peter K. Eisinger 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 Patterns of Interracial Politics: Conflict
and Cooperation in the City of Milwaukee, 1970 was produced by
Peter K. Eisinger, and is distributed by the Data and Program Library
Service. Neither Peter K. Eisinger, 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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