General social survey
Subtitle: [United States] and German social survey (ALLBUS) combined files, 1982
By: principal investigator, National Opinion Research Center
Series: ICPSR -- 8365; ICPSR (Series) -- 8365
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Number of pages: 35111
Subjects: Social surveys; Social conditions
Description: As part of a program of cross-national research, the General Social Survey (GSS) undertook in 1982 a collaboration with the Zentrum fuer Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, (ZUMA), of the Federal Republic of Germany. The project was funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. SEC-8118731. This collection explores the attitudinal similarities as well as differences between the two countries on a range of social issues. A common set of questions was included on both the 1982 GSS and ALLBUS. These common items included questions on such topics as job values, abortion, anomia, and subjective social class. The 1982 ALLBUS also contained several GSS items that were not contained on the 1982 GSS, but have been used on the GSS in recent years. The third file is an SPSSX Export file.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

The first file contains SPSSX control cards, and has a logical record length of 80 characters. The second file includes 80-character raw data records, and there are four physical records for each of the cases. The third file has a logical record length of 80 characters.

First file: 454 records; second file: 17,988 records (4,497 cases); third file: 16,699 records. The collection includes 134 variables.