cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02781
title: CBS News Monthly Poll #1, April 1999
title: Archival Version

description: This poll, fielded April 1, 1999, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Respondents were asked to give their opinions of President Bill Clinton and his handling of the presidency, foreign policy, and the situation in Yugoslavia involving Serbia and Kosovo. Those queried were asked for their views on the United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air strikes against military targets in Yugoslavia. Topics covered the importance of regional peace to United States interests, whether the military activity is worth the loss of American lives, Clinton's explanation of the situation, the possibility of widespread war, and whether the United States will send ground troops to the area. Respondents were asked for their opinions on the March 31, 1999, capture of three United States soldiers near Kosovo and whether the United States should increase its military actions in Yugoslavia in response. Additional questions addressed the ethnic Albanian refugee situation in the region. Topics covered whether the air strikes or the Serbs are responsible for the situation, whether the United States has a responsibility to provide humanitarian aid to assist the refugees, Clinton's pledge of $50 million in humanitarian assistance, and whether genocide is the proper term to describe Serb actions against the ethnic Albanians. Background information on respondents includes age, sex, political party, political orientation, marital status, education, race, Hispanic origin, and family income.
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..
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description: (1) This collection has not been processed by ICPSR staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this collection in essentially the same form in which they were received. When appropriate, hardcopy documentation has been converted to machine-readable form and variables have been recoded to ensure respondents' anonymity. (2) The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. 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 on the Internet.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr34799.v1
title: Levels of Democracy and Democratic Institutionalization in 18 Latin American Countries, 1978-2004
title: Version 1

description: The study analyzed the level of democracy achieved by 18 Latin American countries after 1977, between the transitions from authoritarian rule and 2004. Despite authoritarian interruptions in the past, one of the best predictors of the current level of democracy is the country's experience with competitive politics before 1978. We created original indicators to show that democratic trajectories are institutionalized through political parties and judicial institutions, and we documented the impact of regime legacies using a hybrid fixed-effects model.
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description: The zipped package contains Stata files pertaining to the publication.
These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.
description: Latin American countries, 1978-2004 Smallest Geographic Unit: country
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr34800.v1
title: HIV Open Data Project: National Minority SA/HIV Prevention Initiative Cohort 10 - Adult Questionnaire Administration Guide
title: Version 1

description: The National Minority SA/HIV Prevention Initiative Cohort 10 - Adult Questionnaire provides the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) and grantees with a tool that can be used to compare participants across grant sites. This questionnaire should be filled out by program participants and is meant to document basic characteristics about the participants and/or changes in their behavior and attitudes relevant to substance abuse and HIV prevention. The survey is comprised of three parts: (1) Facts about You; (2) Attitudes and Knowledge; and (3) Behavior and Relationships. The first section, Facts about You, collects demographic information relevant to CSAP's target population. The second section, Attitudes and Knowledge, collects information about a respondent's attitudes and knowledge toward drug use, alcohol use, sexual behavior, and HIV/AIDS. The third section, Behavior and Relationships, collects information about a respondent's sexual behavior, drug use, and other risk-related behaviors.
description: The purpose of this program is to support an array of activities to assist grantees in building a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining quality and accessible state of the science of substance abuse and HIV prevention services. Specifically, the program aims to engage community-level domestic public and private non-profit entities to prevent and reduce the onset of SA and transmission of HIV/AIDS among at-risk racial/ethnic minority sub-populations that are described below.
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.; Standardized missing values..
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description: on-site questionnaire
description: At-risk individuals, 18 and over, in the United States. Smallest Geographic Unit: Country
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr34805.v1
title: Bay Area Travel Survey, 2000
title: Version 1

description: The 2000 Bay Area Travel Survey collected travel information from residents of the nine-county Bay Area for weekday and weekend travel both inside and outside of the region. This survey varies from other household travel surveys in that selected households were asked to record all of their activities for a specific two-day period, rather than complete a 24-hour travel log. Respondents were asked to report detailed information regarding their travel, including trip locations, mode of transportation, trip start and end times, trip purpose, and trip activities. Demographic variables include gender, age, employment status, whether the respondent held a valid driver's license, occupation, whether the respondent was a student, income, education level, ethnicity, and whether the respondent had a disability.
description: For information regarding study design, please refer to the Original P.I. Documentation section of the ICPSR codebook.
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: Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Response Rates: The response rate for this survey was 13.7 percent.
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description: Metropolitan Travel Behavior Survey Series
description: computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI), mail questionnaire 
Due to incomplete documentation and duplicate variable labels, this collection has been minimally processed by ICPSR.
 Additional documentation and information regarding the 2000 Bay Area Travel Survey, including final reports, weighting information, and trip linking procedures may be found on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission Web site. 
 For additional information regarding the 2000 Bay Area Travel Survey, please refer to the Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive Web site.
description: The universe for this survey included households within the nine county Bay Area. Smallest Geographic Unit: Census tract
description: For information regarding sampling, please refer to the Original P.I. Documentation section of the ICPSR codebook.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr34808.v1
title: SETUPS: Voting Behavior: The 2012 Election
title: Version 1

description: Voting Behavior: The 2012 Election is an instructional module designed to offer students the opportunity to analyze a dataset drawn from the 2012 American National Election Study (ANES). This instructional module is part of the SETUPS (Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science) series and is featured online.
description: The study draws select survey questions from the American National Election Studies. These variables are grouped in 15 themes: Voting Behavior; Political Involvement and Participation; Media Exposure and Consumption; Candidate Image (respondents' perceptions of Presidential candidates); Presidential and Congressional Performance; Economic Conditions; Ideology (respondents' perceptions of how liberal/conservative candidates, parties, and themselves are); Taxation and Budget; Economic and Social Welfare; Social and Moral Issues; Women and Gender; Civil Rights and Race; Foreign Policy and National Security; General Political Attitudes and Orientations (respondents' perceptions of government, politicians, parties, and values); and Demographics and Social Characteristics.
description: The data are not weighted. However, a weight variable (WEIGHT_FULL) has been included and must be used in any analysis.
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: Standardized missing values.; Created online analysis version with question text.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
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description: SETUPS Series
description: computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI), web-based survey 
Data are not available for variables R07 and R21.
This study is intended to be used only with the cases weighted and includes the weight variable WEIGHT_FULL. Analysis should only be conducted using this variable to weight cases.
 For additional information on the SETUPS: Voting Behavior: The 2012 Election, please visit the Voting Behavior: The 2012 Election Web site.
description: American electorate Smallest Geographic Unit: region
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01227
title: Legislative Professionalism and Incumbent Reelection: The Development of Institutional Boundaries
title: Archival Version

description: It is well established that legislators from highly professionalized bodies are more likely to win reelection than members of less professionalized legislatures. The authors of this article find that the effect of professionalization on incumbent electoral success is far more pervasive. As the level of professionalism of a legislature increases, members' relationships with the legislature's environment change: the effects of external political and economic forces (such as coattails from higher-level elections and national economic conditions) on a legislator's chances for reelection diminish in strength. This implies that legislative professionalization promotes institutionalization by establishing boundaries that insulate members from external shocks. The authors reach these conclusions by specifying and testing a district-level model of state legislative election outcomes having the probability that an incumbent will win reelection as a dependent variable. The model is estimated with probit using data for over 42,000 state legislators from 1970 to 1989.
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description: (1) Two zip files are provided. The file berry.zip contains the information necessary to replicate the results of the article. After unzipping berry.zip, open the file readme.pdf for instructions. The file unpubsup.zip contains the information necessary to print a copy of the "unpublished supplement" cited in the article. After unzipping unpubsup.zip, open the file read1st.pdf for instructions. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigators if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01228
title: International Bond Markets and the Intro of the Euro
title: Archival Version

description: In this article, the author analyzes the future prospects of the euro as an international currency from a portfolio perspective. Using daily bond and exchange-rate data during the period 1996-1998, the author constructs an optimal benchmark portfolio for representative investors from the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the three major European countries participating in the euro: France, Germany, and Italy. Subsequently, the author distinguishes three plausible (euro) exchange-rate scenarios and three plausible (European) bond market scenarios as a result of the introduction of the euro. Then, the portfolio optimization is implemented again under the nine scenarios. Generally, the outcomes suggest that an increase in net demand for euro assets is unlikely, due to the inherent reduction of attractive diversification possibilities. For a given eurobond supply, this in turn implies a depreciation of the euro. Potential entry of the United Kingdom into the euro area is not seen to change the results. However, increasing depth and liquidity of European bond markets, together with lower transaction costs, may reverse the conclusions. Finally, the author shows that both actual supply and demand developments in international bond markets in 1999 are consistent with the observed depreciation of the euro relative to the United States dollar.
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description: (1) Two files were submitted: 0009ck.xls, a data file, and 0009ckp.zip, which contains program files and a description file, 0009ckp.doc. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01229
title: Do Changes in Reserves Proxy Well for Official Intervention?
title: Archival Version

description: The study of foreign exchange intervention has been slowed by the traditional reluctance of central banks to release intervention data to researchers. To circumvent the lack of actual intervention data, researchers often have used publicly available foreign exchange reserves data to proxy for the confidential intervention data. Little research has been done, however, to compare the characteristics of reserves and intervention. In this article, the author addresses that issue by using time-series techniques and measures of correlation to compare American, Swiss, and German monthly intervention and reserves series. Although the raw correlations are modest, ranging from about 0.12 to 0.42, some simple adjustments for seasonality and ERM realignments can increase the correlations in the Swiss and German data. More sophisticated adjustment techniques would be difficult and time-consuming.
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description: (1) The file submitted, 0009cn.zip, contains program and description files. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01230
title: History of the Asymmetric Policy Directive
title: Archival Version

description: From 1983 through 1999, policy directives issued by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) contained a statement pertaining to possible future policy actions, which was known as the "symmetry," "tilt," or "bias" of the directive. In May 1999, the FOMC began to announce publicly the symmetry of its current directive. This resulted in much speculation about the meaning of asymmetric directives, which the FOMC had never officially defined. In this article, the authors. investigate three suggested interpretations: (1) Asymmetry was intended to convey likely changes in policy either between FOMC meetings or at the next meeting, (2) Asymmetry increased the chairman's authority to change policy in the direction indicated by the specified asymmetry, and (3) Asymmetric language was used primarily to build consensus among voting FOMC members. The authors find strong support in the implementation of monetary policy only for the consensus-building hypothesis.
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description: (1) The file submitted, 0009dtd.xls, contains data and program files. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigators if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01231
title: Thresholds for Prime Rate Changes and Tests for Symmetry
title: Archival Version

description: The popular assertion -- that banks raise loan rates more readily than they lower them in opposite circumstances -- returns to the forefront during every period of declining market interest rates. Perhaps this assertion captures attention because since the 1980s, the ubiquity of credit card balances means that consumer loan rates affect more people than ever. In this article, the author presents specific tests for asymmetric behavior in bank loan rates. The results suggest that the bank prime lending rate, in particular, is slower to decrease than increase. The findings also suggest that one has to put the asymmetry in perspective. The prime rate does not remain far above where it would be in the absence of asymmetry. In addition, the asymmetry probably is the market's response to the rise in default and late payment probabilities that occurs during cyclical downturns in the economy.
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description: (1) The file submitted, 0009md.zip, contains the program and data files. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigators if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01232
title: Information Content of Treasury Inflation-Indexed Securities
title: Archival Version

description: United States Treasury Inflation-Indexed Securities (TIIS) were first issued in January 1997. They are now a small but growing fraction of outstanding Treasury debt. This article describes TIIS and explores what these securities can and cannot tell us about financial market expectations of inflation and real interest rates.
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description: (1) The file submitted is 0011wed.xls, the data for the article. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01233
title: Nominal Facts and the October 1979 Policy Change
title: Archival Version

description: Researchers depend on observed regularities in macroeconomic data to guide the development of theory. One problem in developing monetary models of the business cycle is that there seems to be a great deal of instability in nominal data. Using data from 1959:Q1 to 1998:Q4, the authors document changes in the cyclical behavior of nominal data series that appear after 1979:Q3, when the Federal Reserve implemented a policy to end the acceleration of inflation. Such changes in cyclical behavior were not apparent in real variables. The authors conclude that in order to find regularities in nominal datasets, it may be necessary to examine and compare episodes with similar monetary policy regimes.
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description: (1) The files submitted are 0011wgd.xls, the data file, and 0011wgp.prg, the programs. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigators if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr34838.v1
title: Replication Data for Quality Over Quantity: Amici Influence and Judicial Decision Making
title: Version 1

description: Interest groups often make their preferences known on cases before the U.S. Supreme Court via amicus curiae briefs. In evaluating the case and related arguments, we posit that judges take into account more than just the number of supporters for the liberal and conservative positions. Specifically, judges' decisions may also reflect the relative power of the groups. We use network position to measure interest group power in U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1946 to 2001. We find that the effect of interest group power is minimal in times of heavily advantaged cases. However, when the two sides of a case are approximately equal in the number of briefs, such power is a valuable signal to judges. We also show that justice ideology moderates the effect of liberal interest group power. The results corroborate previous findings on the influence of amicus curiae briefs and add a nuanced understanding of the conditions under which the quality and reputation of interest groups matter, not just the quantity.
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description: The zipped package contains Stata files pertaining to the publication.
These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.