DOI: 10.3886/icpsr07006.v1
title: International Studies of Values in Politics, 1966
title: Version 1

description: The ICPSR version of this study includes samples of community leaders from three nations: the United States, India, and Yugoslavia. Respondents were selected from a total of 30 communities in each country. The study attempted a comparative examination of the impact of leaders' values on social change and development at the community level. The interviews yielded an Individual File for each nation (Parts 1-3). The variables in the Individual Files describe the leaders' social and occupational backgrounds and their views on community goals, as well as the problems facing local communities and possible solutions. The data also include several measures of the leaders' social and political values and aspirations. The Individual File for Yugoslavia (Part 3) does not include background variables, nor a series of open-ended questions probing more deeply into the above-mentioned topics, that are present in the other Individual Files. In addition, a community file was constructed for each nation (Parts 7-9), using aggregate data to describe social and economic conditions. Communities are also the units of analysis in the "activeness" files (Parts 4-6), which attempt an evaluation of the degree of social mobilization present in the communities -- a combination of government initiatives and citizen participation. Part 10, Yugoslavia, Economic Data, contains economic indicators released in 1962 and 1966 for the sampled Yugoslav communities. Finally, the study provides summary statistics computed for the attitudes and values of community leaders in all the nations sampled (Part 11, All, Scales Data).
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: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: India, Individual Data 
 DS2: United States, Individual Data 
 DS3: Yugoslavia, Individual Data 
 DS4: India, Activeness Data 
 DS5: United States, Activeness Data 
 DS6: Yugoslavia, Activeness Data 
 DS7: India, Community Data 
 DS8: United States, Community Data 
 DS9: Yugoslavia, Community Data 
 DS10: Yugoslavia, Economic Data 
 DS11: All, Scales Data
description: Part 11 (All, Scales Data) contains up to four records per case.
description: Formal community leaders and local communities in the United States, India, and Yugoslavia.
description: The specific units of local government were identified based on political system criteria: cities in the United States, communes in Yugoslavia, and blocks in India were thus selected as being located at approximately the same level in the respective political system hierarchies and having the power to make essentially the same types of decisions in all three countries. They were then stratified on the basis of their economic level, so that the sample reflected major differences in affluence or poverty. The leaders were chosen from three major types of decision-making roles: elected officials, appointed officials, and organizational leaders, especially leaders of local political party organizations.