Women in Public Office, 1977 (doi:10.7910/DVN/KNWLCZ)

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Women in Public Office, 1977

doi:10.7910/DVN/KNWLCZ

Harvard Dataverse

2007-11-28

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Johnson, Marilyn, 1980, "Women in Public Office, 1977", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KNWLCZ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:swl1k0WPRevy2T5EfirvJw== [fileUNF]

Women in Public Office, 1977

doi:10.7910/DVN/KNWLCZ

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Johnson, Marilyn

Harvard Dataverse

Murray Research Archive

1980

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KNWLCZ

Social Sciences

mra, over 1000, female, male, mixed, mixed, middle, 1, yes, Women, Public administration

These data were collected in 1977 to gather information about the numbers, location, positions, personal characteristics, and political backgrounds of women in public office at federal, state, county, and local levels. A nine-page self-administered questionnaire was mailed to approximately 13,000 women currently in public office, 2,400 men currently in public office, and 660 women who were in public office in 1975 but not in 1977. Questionnaires were returned by 3,319 women office holders, 363 men office holders, and 190 women former office holders. <br /><br /> The first section of the questionnaire contained information for listing the respondent in a biographical directory of office holders, including current and former offices, party involvement, employment, education, and organizational membership. The second section examined activities while in office, political plans and goals, attitudes toward men and women in politics, and background and family characteristics.

1970-1980

1977-

United States

individuals

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quota sample

questionnaire

Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University

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<b> Author did not provide the Murray Archive with names and addresses of the subjects. Any contacts of the subjects must be made through him/her/them.</b>

<div style="padding-left: 30px;"> <ul style="list-style-type: decimal;" ><li> The Murray Archive (the Distributor) has granted me a revocable license to use this dataset solely for the purposes of conducting research, and the Distributor may terminate this license at any time and for any reason. </li> <li> I will use the dataset solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations, except when identification is authorized in writing by the Distributor. </li> <li>I will produce no links among the Distributor’s datasets or among the Distributor’s data and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations. </li> <li>I represent that neither I, nor anyone I know, has any prior knowledge of the possible identities of any study participants in any dataset that I am being licensed to use. </li> <li> I will not knowingly divulge any information that could be used to identify individual participants in the study, nor will I attempt to identify or contact any study participant, and I agree to use any precautions necessary to prevent such identification. </li> <li> I will make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. If I suspect that I might recognize or know a study participant, I will immediately inform the Distributor, and I will not use or retain a copy of data regarding that study participant. If these measures to resolve an identity disclosure are not sufficient, the Distributor may terminate my use of the dataset. </li> <li> I will not reproduce the dataset except as is necessary for my scholarly purposes. I will destroy the dataset upon the completion of my scholarly work with it. </li> <li> I will not share data from the dataset (in any form or by any means) with any third party, including other members of my research team, as I understand that all users of data must obtain the data directly from the Distributor. </li> <li> I will make appropriate acknowledgement of the contributor of the dataset as well as the Distributor in any manuscript or presentation (published or unpublished) using the citation standard documented here: <a href="http://thedata.org/citation"> http://thedata.org/citation</a> </li> <li> THE DISTRIBUTOR MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY OPERATION OF LAW OR OTHERWISE, REGARDING OR RELATING TO THE DATASET. </li> </ul> </div>

Submission of the following <a href= "https://murray.harvard.edu/application" target="_blank">Application For The Use Of Data</a> is required to access the data from this study. <br /><br /> <b> Author did not provide the Murray Archive with names and addresses of the subjects. Any contacts of the subjects must be made through him/her/them.</b>

• Number of cases: 363

• No. of variables per record: 300

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Data on Male Office Holders in Tab Delimited Format

• Number of cases: 3319

• No. of variables per record: 334

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Data on Current Female Office Holders in Tab Delimited Format

• Number of cases: 190

• No. of variables per record: 308

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Data on Former Female Office Holders in Tab Delimited Format

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Description of coded data variables

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Data on Male Office Holders in SPSS Portable Format

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Data on Current Female Office Holders in SPSS Portable Format

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Data on Former Female Office Holders in SPSS Portable Format

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00546JohnsonM-PublicOffice-DataFileList.pdf

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Detailed description of computer data files

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00546JohnsonM-PublicOffice-Measures.pdf

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Collection of blank measures used in the study

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00546JohnsonM-PublicOffice-MemoOfAgreement.pdf

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Legal agreement between data depositor and Murray Archive

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00546JohnsonM-PublicOffice-StudyDescription.pdf

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Overview: abstract, research methodology, publications, and other info.

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