DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04024
title: Study of Political Socialization: Parent-Child Pairs Based on Survey of Youth Panel and Their Offspring, 1997
title: Archival Version

description: This panel study is part of a series of surveys designed to
assess political continuity and change across time for biologically
related generations and to gauge the impact of life-stage events and
historical trends on their behaviors and attitudes. The purpose of
this study was to obtain social, political, and economic information
from the "youth" portion of the socialization panel study, which began
in 1965 with a national sample of high school seniors, and from their
offspring aged 15 and older as of 1997. This data collection combines
the two sources of data in the form of parent-child pairs, with one
key objective being the analysis of influence relationships within the
family. The dataset is explicitly designed to facilitate the use of
parent-child pairs as the units of analysis. The parent portion
includes 478 cases, omitting the 457 cases (49 percent of the 935
total) for which there were no eligible offspring or where the
offspring could not be located, did not receive the self-administered
questionnaires (SAQ), or elected not to complete it. See YOUTH-PARENT
SOCIALIZATION PANEL STUDY, 1965-1997: YOUTH WAVE IV, 1997 (ICPSR 4023)
for the data file containing all of the Wave IV cases. The Offspring
portion (the third generation) includes 769 cases and can be used in
and of itself, but it omits 10 cases that could not be linked with a
particular parent. See NATIONAL SURVEY OF THIRD GENERATION MEMBERS OF
THE YOUTH-PARENT POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION STUDY, 1997 (ICPSR 3926) for
a data file containing all cases. Collection of SAQ data from the
offspring was dependent upon their parents' supplying the correct
locations of their eligible offspring. Background variables include
age, sex, religious orientation, level of religious participation,
marital status, ethnicity, educational status and background, place of
residence, family income, and employment status.
description: The data collection contains a weight variable in
the offspring portion. Overall, 32 percent of the pairs were based on
one child, 42 percent on two, 17 percent on three, and 4 percent on
four. Weights were assigned based on the number of children in the
dyad with the same parent (1 if only one child, 0.5 if two children,
and so forth). The principal investigators have used both weighted and
unweighted data in multivariate analysis and concluded that the
differences were quite minor (Jennings, M. Kent, and Laura Stoker,
"Politics Across Generations: Family Transmission Reexamined,"
unpublished paper, 2003, available from the principal investigators).
Users should consider for themselves whether the data should be
weighted by number of children for analytic purposes.
description: Response Rates: The unadjusted rate is 56 percent from the original
pool of 1,669 school seniors in 1965, and the response rate is 54
percent for the offspring generation.
description: The data collection consists of youths from the Wave III
panel of the original 1965 Youth-Parent Socialization Study who were
located and reinterviewed and their children aged 15 and older. The
original data collection was based on a national probability sample of
high school seniors in 1965.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Study Data
description: All high school seniors in the United States in 1965 and
their children aged 15 and older. Smallest Geographic Unit: State
description: self-enumerated questionnaire