DOI: 10.3886/icpsr24320.v1
title: Detroit Area Study, 2002
title: Version 1

description: The 2002 Detroit Area Study (DAS) is a face-to-face survey of adults in the Detroit, Michigan tri-county area. Respondents were asked questions about their place of residence, level of political participation, general political attitudes, concern about the environment, environmental consumerism, environmental justice, and the quality of the environment in their current neighborhood and the neighborhood in which they were raised. Information was also collected on respondents' job responsibilities, current financial situation, the availability of childcare and transportation, and their own feelings of self-worth. Interviewer observations about the condition of the respondent's neighborhood were also included. Demographic variables include sex, age, race, ethnicity, marital status, household income, education level, employment status, occupation, and industry, labor union membership, religious preference, frequency of religious attendance, and the presence of children in the household. More information about the Detroit Area Studies Project is available on this Web site.
description: The data are not weighted and users should weight the data prior to analysis. The weight variable W_NORMAL contains normalized weights to be used in all analyses. Please refer to the codebook documentation for more information on weights.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Created variable labels and/or value labels.; Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Response Rates: The response rate was 58.9 percent.
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS1: Dataset
description: Detroit Area Studies Series
description: face-to-face interview 
The data available for download are not weighted and users will need to weight the data prior to analysis.
Additional information about sampling, interviewing, sampling error, and weighting may be found in the codebook.
To protect respondent confidentiality, open-ended responses referring to exact place of employment, industry, occupation, membership in specific organizations, and city of residence in variables A1A, A11A, K5SP, K6SP, and K7SP were blanked.
The formats of character, date, and weight variables were changed in order to be compatible with current statistical programs.
ICPSR created a unique sequential record identifier variable named CASEID.
Variable labels and value labels were added to several variables.
The survey questions in variables C1A_AA through C2A_GG and H2 differed depending on the version of the questionnaire that was administered, as indicated in the variable FORM.
description: Adults aged 18 years or older living in households in the Detroit, Michigan tri-county area of Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne counties. Smallest Geographic Unit: county
description: A multi-stage equal probability sample of 510 housing units was selected from the Detroit Area Study replicate of the Survey Research Center (SRC) 3-county Detroit sample based on the 2000 United States Census data for Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. These households were to be contacted for a face-to-face interview. One adult household member was randomly chosen as the respondent, using a Kish table. Please refer to the codebook documentation for additional information on sampling.