Outdoor recreation survey, 1977
Subtitle: federal estate survey
By: principal investigator, United States Department of the Interior
Series: ICPSR -- 7680; ICPSR (Series) -- 7680
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Socal Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Public opinion; Outdoor recreation
Description: This survey was conducted by the Department of the Interior. Visitors to 153 Federal land management areas were interviewed, and other individuals were queried at 35 additional areas. The purposes of the study were to determine the importance of outdoor recreation to the American people, patterns of recreational land use, trends in recreation, the users of Federal land, and the deterrents, satisfactions, and preferences for outdoor recreation. The variables record respondents' feelings about the specific Federal recreation area in which they were interviewed, as well as background information about each of the respondents.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: summer and fall of 1977; winter of 1977-78.

United States.

The data are available in card-image format.

6 decks of data for each of the 11,549 persons interviewed, for a total of 69,294 records. There are approximately 400 variables.