DOI: 10.3886/e143181v1-156827
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>





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description: Adults aged 21 and
older who live in the Southern United States (five districts)



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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. 
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