DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03512.v1
title: Economic Incentives, Values, and Subjective Well-Being, 1971-1974
title: Version 1

description: This study is composed of four data files and includes 
 data from three national cross-section surveys and a sample of 
 young families in two major cities. The data were collected in an 
 effort to construct and apply survey indicators of economic well-being 
 and motivation, and to link changes in them to trends in the American 
 economy. The work aims at measuring economic welfare, its dimensions, 
 its situational (objective) and psychological (subjective) bases, and 
 its consequences for economic behavior and for people's orientation
 to the larger social system. The focus is on the mutual interdependence 
 of people and the economy. Consideration is given to both the problem 
 of how people influence the economy and the impact of economic changes 
 on people's well-being, their sense of equity and fairness, and their 
 orientation toward societal institutions and the political system.
 Part 1 data are comprised of data collected in April-May 1971, from a 
 relatively homogeneous sample of young families in Detroit and Baltimore, 
 Part 2 data are from the Survey Research Center's Omnibus Survey, Spring 
 1972, Part 3 data are from the Omnibus Survey, Fall 1973, and Part 4
 data are from the Omnibus Survey, Fall 1974. Respondents were asked
 about their expectations concerning changes in their income, their
 feelings about the equity of their income renumeration in comparison 
 with that of others, and their beliefs about which factors should 
 determine a fair amount of pay. Additional items explored respondents' 
 attitudes toward women's participation in the labor force, and work.
 Information was also elicited about respondents' satisfaction with 
 their job, standard of living, and amount in savings, and how their
 current standard of living matched past expectations. Various personal 
 trust, control, and achievement items are also included. The data 
 collection also contains the traditional series of Economic Behavior 
 Program questions on consumer attitudes and expectations, price changes, 
 unemployment, and consumer products satisfaction. Demographic variables 
 describe age, sex, race, marital status, education, occupation, income, 
number of children, religion, and party identification.
description: The survey conducted in the spring of 1971 used a random 
 sample from the Detroit and Baltimore SMSAs of households who had 
 their first child during the 1960s. The national samples consisted of
 multistage sampling of 74 primary areas in 37 states and the District
 of Columbia. The overall sampling rate for housing units was frequently 
 about one in 32,000. Probability selection was enforced at all stages 
 of sampling. In a last stage of sampling, one respondent aged 18 and 
 older was selected from among eligible household members. The sample 
 was designed to yield approximately 1,500 interviews. For each study, 
 sample housing units were selected anew and without replacement. The 
 samples were designed to represent housing units in the coterminous 
United States exclusive of those on military reservations.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Part 1
DS2: Part 2
DS3: Part 3
DS4: Part 4
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ICPSR Web site.