High school seniors cohort study, 1965 and 1973
By: principal investigator, M. Kent Jennings
Series: ICPSR -- 7575; ICPSR (Series) -- 7575
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: High school seniors; Attitudes; Political activity; Political socialization
Description: The 1965 data were gathered in order to provide information about the social and political climate of the peer groups and the entire senior classes attached to the student interviewees who were the subjects of the Student-Parent Socialization Study, 1965. The 1973 data were gathered primarily to provide a trend line. The schools in each year were defined by the 97 included in the Jennings' Socialization Study. The number of cooperating schools was 77 in 1965 and 85 in 1973. Within schools, all members of the senior class were potential respondents. The number of respondents in the 1965 study is 20,682 (85% response rate) and 16,929 respondents in 1973 (approximately 80% response rate). The weighted data provide a sample that can be considered a nationally representative sample of high school seniors based on population distributions as of the mid-1960's. In both studies several key political and personal measures were developed that paralleled those used in the Student-Parent Socialization Study, 1965 (ICPSR 7286). Each year's data collection also differed in some respects, with 1965 including more attention to the social studies curriculum and the social climate, and 1973 devoting more attention to additional political variables and to ethnic and religious composition.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class I.

1965 and 1973.

United States.

The 1965 study has 20,682 respondents; the 1973 study 16,929. Each dataset has approximately 110 variables.

Jennings, M. Kent. "An Aggregate Analysis of Home and School Effects on Political Socialization," Social Science Quarterly (September 1974), pp. 394-410.

Sebert, Suzanne Koprince, M. Kent Jennings, and Richard G. Niemi. "The Political Texture of Peer Groups," in M. Kent Jennings and Richard G. Niemi, The Political Character of Adolescence (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974), Chapter 9.