Economic incentives, values, and subjective well-being, 1971-1974
By: principal investigators, Burkhard Strumpel, Gerald Gurin, and Richard T. Curtin
Series: ICPSR -- 3512; ICPSR (Series) -- 3512
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Consumers; Attitudes; Cost and standard of living; Social indicators
Description: The data were collected in an effort to construct and apply survey indicators of economic well-being and motivation, and to link changes in them to trends in the American economy. The work aims at measuring economic welfare, its dimensions, its situational (''objective'') and psychological (''subjective'') bases, and its consequences for economic behavior and system orientations.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class II.

Data collected: Part 1: April-May 1971; part 2: Spring 1972; part 3: Fall 1973; part 4: Fall 1974.

Parts 2-4: Survey Research Center's Omnibus Survey.

Part 1: Detroit and Baltimore.

Part 1: family N=574, individual N=1,148; Part 2: N=1,297; Part 3: N=1435; Part 4: N=1,519.

This collection includes data from three national cross-section surveys and from a sample of young families in two major cities.

Strumpel, Burkhard ''Economic Behavior and Economic Welfare -- Models and Interdisciplinary Approaches,'' in Burkhard Strumpel, James N. Morgan, and Ernest Zahn (eds.), Human Behavior in Economic Affairs: Essays in Honor of George Katona, Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Co., 1972. pp. 83-107.

Strumpel, Burkhard. ''Economic Life Styles, Values, and Subjective Welfare--An Empirical Approach,'' (with Richard T. Curtin and M. Susan Schwartz), in Eleanor Sheldon (ed.), Family Economic Behavior: Problems and Prospects, New York: Lippincott, 1973.

Strumpel, Burkhard. ''Economic Well-Being as an Object of Social Measurement,'' in Burkhard Strumpel (ed.), Subjective Elements of Well-Being, Paris, OECD, 1974.