DOI: 10.3886/icpsr36826.v1
title: The Gender and Multicultural Leadership Project: The Future of Governance, United States, 2006-2007
title: GMCL
title: Version 1

description: The Gender and Multicultural Leadership Project (GMCL) is a national study of America's political leadership in the 21st century, with a focus on race, ethnicity, and gender. The project specifically addresses African American, Latina/o, Native American, and Asian American elected officials in U.S. politics. The 2000 U.S. Census points to a need to understand the role of gender and race/ethnicity in today's elected leaders and how this increasingly diversified leadership is becoming incorporated into the governing structures of a nation projected to be "majority-minority" within the next fifty years.
Key components of the GMCL Project include a national database of more than 10,000 elected officials of color, by race and gender; an annotated bibliography and analytical framework on the intersection of gender, race/ethnicity, class; and an interactive project website.
description: The Gender and Multicultural Leadership Project goals include: (1) to provide baseline data on multicultural leadership in the 21st century, (2) provide comparisons within/across groups by race/ethnicity and gender, (3) identify prospects for coalition and/or competition, (4) examine empirically the category of "women of color", and (5) expand scholarship, especially in the area of intersectionality and political representation.
Key components of the GMCL Project include a national database of more than 10,000 elected officials of color, by race and gender; an annotated bibliography and analytical framework on the intersection of gender, race/ethnicity, class; and an interactive project website.
description: The GMCL research team constructed a national database of 10,000 elected officials of color at the federal, state, and local levels.
The first step was to consult the most current directories provided by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, NALEO (National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials), and the UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Asian American Studies Center. American Indian elected officials at the level of state legislature and one congressional seat identified from the National Conference of State Legislators and other sources were also added.
The second step was to verify the directory information for accuracy, recode the information to make it consistent across groups, to link contextual (e.g., demographic) data from the U.S. Census and other sources.
The database includes, for the most part, officials who were in office in 2006. Once the database was complete, it was used to conduct the Survey of Elected Officials of Color.
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.; Created online analysis version with question text.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Response Rates:
					The telephone interview response rate was 72 percent.
description: Datasets:
					
						DS0: Study-Level Files
						DS1: Public-Use Version
						DS2: Restricted-Use Version
description: computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI)
description: Non-white elected officials holding positions at the state and local levels of government.