DOI: 10.3886/icpsr36529.v1
title: Civic Cohort: Parent-Youth Dyad Interviews during the 2002-2004 Election Cycles in Arizona, Colorado, and Florida
title: Version 1

description: This data collection is gathered from interviews with parent-youth dyads in Arizona, Colorado, and Florida across two election cycles: 2002 and 2004. Adolescent respondents were juniors and seniors in high school during a midterm campaign, and old enough to vote during the subsequent presidential election. The civics curriculum Kids Voting USA (KVUSA) provided conditions for a quasi-experimental field intervention in the three selected states. Measures of civic engagement include student and parent voting, political knowledge, and deliberative activities like news media attention, active political discussion, and willingness to listen and to disagree with others.
description: The data incorporates information gathered from a panel survey of student-parent dyads with a quasi-experimental stimulus for students in the form of deliberative curricula. The design incorporates post-test only measures acquired from three waves of interviews. In the first phase - that is, post-curricula, post-Election Day indicators (T1), the research team interviewed juniors and seniors, along with one parent from each family, following Election Day 2002. Kids Voting activities had been implemented during the initial weeks of the school year to coincide with the end of the campaign. Curricula activities culminated with election day. the researchers interviewed the same dyads one year after the 2002 campaign (T2), and interviewed respondents a final time
after election day 2004 (T3). The study sites (El Paso County, Maricopa County, Broward/Palm Beach counties)
include both KVUSA schools and non-KVUSA schools.
description: Response Rates: Using the RR3 formula of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, response rates for completed dyad interviews were 58 percent (Wave 1), 59 percent (Wave 2), and 65 percent (Wave 3).
description: The population consists of families in the four counties with at least one dyad consisting of a parent and a student in grade 11 or 12. The researchers obtained lists of dyads from a major vendor for sample frames, and began each wave in November - after Election Day in the case of
2002 and 2004. There is substantial attrition from year to year, as cooperation from both a parent and an adolescent was needed to complete a dyad, while keeping up with youth respondents during a mobile phase of their lives. The n's for dyads are 491 in 2002 (982 respondents), 288 in 2003 (576 respondents), and 187 in 2004 (374 respondents).
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Civic Cohort: Parent-Youth Dyad Interviews during the 2002-2004 Election Cycles in Arizona, Colorado, and Florida
description: High school juniors and seniors, and their parents, in four counties across Arizona, Colorado, and Florida, from November 2002 to November 2004. Smallest Geographic Unit: County
description: computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI); mail questionnaire; web-based surveyThe researchers chose the geographic region of the study because a substantial number of schools in the four selected counties adopted the Kids Voting USA (KVUSA) program in the Fall of 2002. For more information about the program and its curricula, users are encouraged to visit the KVUSA Web site.