DOI: 10.3886/icpsr36749.v1
title: Los Angeles County Social Survey (LACSS), Los Angeles, California, 1992, 1994-1998
title: Version 1

description: This collection contains a cumulative datafile for The Los Angeles County Social Survey (LACSS) comprised of participants from years 1992 and 1994-1998. The LACSS continues the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Studies (LAMAS) and the Southern California Social Surveys (SCSS). The Los Angeles County Social Survey (LACSS) is part of a continuing annual research project supported by the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Each year a University of California researcher is given an opportunity to be principal investigator and to use a segment of the LACSS for his or her own research. 
Data for this collection represents the LACSS conducted between February 1992 and June 1998. No data was included for the year 1993. Each year, Los Angeles County residents were asked questions concerning ethnic relations, social dominance, social distance, immigration, affirmative action, employment, and government. A split ballot methodology was utilized concerning the topics of immigration and affirmative action. Respondents were randomly selected to answer a series of questions from one of three ballots. In addition, a different series of social distance questions were asked depending on the respondent's ethnicity.
Demographic information collected includes race, gender, religion, age, education level, occupation, birth place, political party affiliation and ideology, and origin of ancestry.
description: The primary purpose of the Los Angeles County Social Survey (LACSS) is to provide the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the local community with information about the opinions and attitudes of Los Angeles County residents on a wide range of topics. The study sought to survey a representative sample of adults in Los Angeles County. The LACSS also provides UCLA undergraduate and graduate students with the experience of collecting survey research data.
description: This random digit dial sample of households in Los Angeles County contains over-samples of African American and Asian American households. Respondents were randomly selected to answer a series of questions from one of two ballots concerning economic conditions, and one of three ballots about ethnic relations. Investigators employed a computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) system for years 1992, 1994, and 1996-1998. Investigators conducted interviews by telephone in 1995.
description: The data are not weighted and no weight variables are present in the collection.
description: Individuals living in households with telephones in Los Angeles County were selected using a random digital dial sample which included over-samples of African American and Asian American households.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Los Angeles County Social Survey (LACSS), Los Angeles, California, 1992, 1994-1998
description: Households with telephones in Los Angeles County. Smallest Geographic Unit: County
description: computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI); telephone interviewICPSR removed variables THAK, ZIPCODE, and INVWTIME from the data and documentation in order to prevent disclosure risk.No data was included in this dataset for the year 1993, but The Los Angeles County Social Survey for 1993 can be found at ICPSR Study 36600