Survey of public interest group members, 1982
By: principal investigator, Constance Ewing Cook
Series: ICPSR -- 8284; ICPSR (Series) -- 8284
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: 641
Subjects: Pressure group members; Public interest; Pressure groups
Description: This data collection was assembled by Professor Constance Ewing Cook of Albion College. The study examines the attitudes of members of public interest groups regarding their reasons for joining the organizations, their activism, their level of satisfaction and plans for membership renewal, their knowledgeability about the group's choice of issues, and the degree of membership involvement in organizational issues. Also included are data regarding the gender, age, education, and occupation of the members. The universe for the sample included Michigan members of Common Cause, the American Civil Liberties Union, the League of Women Voters, and the Conservative Caucus. The data were collected by sending mail questionnaires to 250 randomly selected members of the above public interest groups.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: 1982.

Michigan.

The project was partially supported by a grant to Albion College from the Mellon Foundation.

The collection is available in card-image format. The data collection has a file containing SPSS control cards and a data file comprised of 4 components.

Control cards file: 79 records; Data file: 562 records. Each component contains the same 29 variables.