DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38423.v1
title: Youth Participatory Politics Survey Project, 2015
title: Version 1

description: The Youth Participatory Politics Survey Project (YPPSP) has conducted this survey which includes questions that examine the quantity, quality, and equality of youth new media practices; as well as political and civic attitudes, behavior, and engagement (collectively referred to as "participatory politics"). The study was conducted in three waves between 2011 and 2015, and this is the third wave of the YPPSP. The wave 3 survey collected data from 2,772 respondents ages 15-29, including oversamples of African American, Asian American and Latino respondents. The survey was administered online from June 2015 to November 2015 through the survey vendor Growth from Knowledge (GfK) Group. The survey includes questions about political and civic attitudes, media practices, community involvement, political engagement, news sources, and social influences. Demographic variables include age, race, education, income, and gender.
description: The purpose of this study was to capture the opinions, attitudes, and beliefs of youth and young adults aged 15-29 about news media, and to gain a better understanding of the impact of these new forms of communication on their lives.
description: The 2015 Youth Participatory Politics Survey includes two post-stratification weights. The first, <b>weight1</b>, should be used in analyses that use the 2015 cross-sectional sample to make inferences to the national population of 15-29 year-olds. The second, <b>weight2</b>, should be used in analyses of any of the four target race/ethnicity groups.
description: Response Rates: Online Survey In-Field Screening: 54.2 percent for fresh sample group Online Survey Main Interview: 49.7 percent for Waves 1-2 sample group, 92 percent for fresh sample group ABS Sample In-Field Screening: 2.4 percent for fresh sample group ABS Sample Main Interview: 19.5 percent for Waves 1-2 sample group, 77 percent for fresh sample group
description: The target population at Wave 1 consisted of the following: youth aged 15-25 in four race/ethnicity groups (White non-Hispanic, Black non-Hispanic, Asian non-Hispanic, Hispanic). At wave 2, the sample was expanded to include 26-27 year-olds and those in the "other non-Hispanic" race/ethnicity group. At Wave 3, the sample was further expanded to include 28-29 year-olds, while those in the "other non-Hispanic" race/ethnicity group were collapsed with Asian non-Hispanics for targeting. To sample the population, GfK sampled households from its KnowledgePanel (KP), a probability-based web panel designed to be representative of the United States. The KnowledgePanel sample was implemented in two ways - a direct sample of those aged 18-25 (18-27 for Wave 2 and 18-29 for Wave 3) and a sample of parents of persons aged 15-25 (15-27 for Wave 2 and 15-29 for Wave 3). The direct sample proceeded immediately to the survey without screening. Because KnowledgePanel was not expected to yield enough sample to hit all of the desired age by race/ethnicity targets for the project, and additional probability-based sample was implemented for each wave, using the U.S. Postal Service Delivery Sequence File as the sample frame. For more details regarding this additional sampling process, please refer to the accompanying study documentation.
description: Datasets: DS1: Youth Participatory Politics Survey Project, 2015
description: Youth age 15-29. Smallest Geographic Unit: State
description: web-based surveyThe sample for wave 3 consisted of those from the KnowledgePanel (KP) and address-based sampling (ABS) samples who had completed surveys for waves 1 and 2, as well as fresh KP and ABS samples drawn and implemented as described for the previous waves. Wave 1 and 2 respondents were asked to complete the wave 3 survey without additional screening. Panel members (or panel parents) who had left KnowledgePanel since the first wave of the study were still invited to participate in wave 3 unless they had specifically requested that they not be contacted for any future surveys after leaving the panel.For fresh KP and ABS sampling, the survey vendor GfK Group (formerly Knowledge Networks) administered the study using address-based sampling methods. In addition, probability-based sampling was implemented using the U.S. Postal Service Delivery Sequence File as the sample frame.For additional information on the Youth Participatory Politics Survey Project, please visit the Youth Participatory Politics website or access any of the YPPSP workshop videos here.