DOI: 10.3886/e143181v1
title: Public Opinion Polling (School Assignment Policies) in the Upper South - 2015 -

description: This dataset contains public polling responses for individuals in five Southern United States school districts: Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC; Rock Hill, SC; Louisville, KY; Nashville, TN; and Raleigh, NC in 2015. The purpose of the study was to explore attitudes towards desegregation and re-segregation across five Southern school districts with differing histories regarding segregation. This current dataset also builds upon past data the authors had collected on a similar topic in Wake County in 2011. The dataset contains information on beliefs regarding the importance of diverse schools and classrooms, the importance of neighborhood schools, the challenges parents face when dealing with reassignments, the dangers to children that reassignments include, and the uncertainty families face during this process. This data also contains information on demographic characteristics and sociopolitical characteristics such as sex, age, race, marital status, education, commute time, length of residence, attitudes towards MLK, political party, the presence of school age children, income, and social purpose politics.<br>
description: We use post-stratification weighting or raking. This assigned a weight value to each respondent so that the marginal totals of the adjust weights on various characteristics match the corresponding totals in that population. We use data from the American Community Survey to develop the weight factors for each locale. We weighted the data by sex, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, marital status, education levels, and commute time. These weights correct for the fact that some respondents are more likely to respond to polls than others. Without weights, the data sets would be biased by gender, social class, race, etc. <br>
description: Response Rates: Wake County: 3.5% based on AAPOR RR#5 and 10.9% based on AAPOR RR #6<br>Charlotte: 3.2% based on AAPOR RR#5 and 11.1% based on AAPOR RR #6Louisville: 2.2% based on AAPOR RR#5 and 7.5% based on AAPOR RR #6<br>Nashville: 2.1% based on AAPOR RR#5 and 6.3% based on AAPOR RR #6Rock Hill: 4.4% based on AAPOR RR#5 and 9.4% based on AAPOR RR #6<br>
description: Interviews with randomly selected respondents in five school districts. Includes an oversample of African Americans. Public Policy Polling (PPP) first purchased two sets of lists of phone numbers in Raleigh (a simple random sample of 35,000 households with landlines from an overall list of 166,907 Raleigh numbers AND a list of 37,218 land line numbers that belonged to African Americans). PPP tried to reach a respondent at each number about 14 times across a 12-day period, and calls that did not reach someone over 21 years were counted as non-interviews. In Raleigh, the final sample included 1005 respondents which included 228 African Americans. A similar process for cell phone numbers (through Sexton) was conducted. In Raleigh, this resulted in a pool of 38,883 respondents from which they selected 6000 cell phone numbers, called at least six times, resulting in 208 live interviews. For African Americans, Sexton used a pool of 13,601 individuals, randomly selected 6000, and 92 interviews were completed. A similar strategy occurred in the four remaining school systems. We used multiple imputation in the case of missing data. <b>Completed Surveys (Landline & Cell Phone):</b> Raleigh (1202); Charlotte (1105); Louisville (1134); Nashville (1001); and Rock Hill (818). <b>Total Sample (after imputation):</b> 5,302 adults<b> </b> <br>
description: Adults aged 21 and older who live in the Southern United States (five districts) <br>.
description: telephone interview; The codebook is provided as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website. The data contains information on all five sites, while the included do files reference specific past projects/publications utilizing the five sites data. These are in STATA data/do file format. <br>