The Minority Data Resource Center (MDRC) is an initiative of
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Description & Citation--Study No. 2535 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 2535 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02535 |
| Title: | Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, 1992-1994: [Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles] |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Lawrence Bobo |
| James Johnson | |
| Melvin Oliver | |
| Reynolds Farley | |
| Barry Bluestone | |
| Irene Browne | |
| Sheldon Danziger | |
| Gary Green | |
| Harry Holzer | |
| Maria Krysan | |
| Michael Massagli | |
| Camille Zubrinsky Charles | |
| Joleen Kirschenman | |
| Philip Moss | |
| Chris Tilly | |
| Funding Agency: | Russell Sage Foundation and Ford Foundation. |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Bobo, Lawrence, James Johnson, Melvin Oliver, Reynolds Farley, Barry Bluestone, Irene Browne, Sheldon Danziger, Gary Green, Harry Holzer, Maria Krysan, Michael Massagli, and Camille Zubrinsky Charles. MULTI-CITY STUDY OF URBAN INEQUALITY, 1992-1994: [ATLANTA, BOSTON, DETROIT, AND LOS ANGELES] [HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA] [Computer file]. ICPSR02535-v3. Atlanta, GA: Mathematica/Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts, Survey Research Laboratory/Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Detroit Area Study and Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center/Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Survey Research Program [producers], 1998. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02535 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | The Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality was designed to broaden the understanding of how changing labor market dynamics, racial attitudes and stereotypes, and racial residential segregation act singly and in concert to foster contemporary urban inequality. This data collection comprises data for two surveys: a survey of households and a survey of employers. Multistage area probability sampling of adult residents took place in four metropolitan areas: Atlanta (April 1992-September 1992), Boston (May 1993-November 1994), Detroit (April-September 1992), and Los Angeles (September 1993-August 1994). The combined four-city data file in Part 1 contains data on survey questions that were asked in households in at least two of the four survey cities. Questions on labor market dynamics included industry, hours worked per week, length of time on job, earnings before taxes, size of employer, benefits provided, instances of harassment and discrimination, and searching for work within particular areas of the metropolis in which the respondent resided. Questions covering racial attitudes and attitudes about inequality centered on the attitudes and beliefs that whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians hold about one another, including amount of discrimination, perceptions about wealth and intelligence, ability to be self-supporting, ability to speak English, involvement with drugs and gangs, the fairness of job training and educational assistance policies, and the fairness of hiring and promotion preferences. Residential segregation issues were studied through measures of neighborhood quality and satisfaction, and preferences regarding the racial/ethnic mix of neighborhoods. Other topics included residence and housing, neighborhood characteristics, family income structure, networks and social functioning, and interviewer observations. Demographic information on household respondents was also elicited, including length of residence, education, housing status, monthly rent or mortgage payment, marital status, gender, age, race, household composition, citizenship status, language spoken in the home, ability to read and speak English, political affiliation, and religion. The data in Part 2 represent a telephone survey of current business establishments in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles carried out between spring 1992 and spring 1995 to learn about hiring and vacancies, particularly for jobs requiring just a high school education. An employer size-weighted, stratified, probability sample (approximately two-thirds of the cases) was drawn from regional employment directories, and a probability sample (the other third of the cases) was drawn from the current or most recent employer reported by respondents to the household survey in Part 1. Employers were queried about characteristics of their firms, including composition of the firm's labor force, vacant positions, the person most recently hired and his or her salary, hours worked per week, educational qualifications, promotions, the firm's recruiting and hiring methods, and demographic information for the respondent, job applicants, the firm's customers, and the firm's labor force, including age, education, race, and gender. |
| Subject Term(s): | demographic characteristics, discrimination, employers, household income, households, labor markets, neighborhoods, race relations, racial attitudes, racial discrimination, racial segregation, residential segregation, urban areas |
| Geographic Coverage: | Atlanta, Boston, California, Detroit, Georgia, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Michigan, United States |
| Time Period: | 1992 - 1994 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | 1992 - 1994 |
| Universe: | Part 1: Adult residents in four selected metropolitan areas in the United States (Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles), Part 2: Active business establishments in the same four areas. |
| Data Type: | survey data |
| Data Collection Notes: | (1) Two weights are provided in Part 1: a post-stratified nonresponse adjusted household weight and a person weight. Four weights are provided in Part 2. (2) The data files in Parts 1 and 2 can be linked. (3) This collection has not been processed by ICPSR staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this collection in essentially the same form in which they were received. When appropriate, hardcopy documentation has been converted to machine-readable form and variables have been recoded to ensure respondents' anonymity. (4) The codebooks are provided as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet. |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | Part 1: Multistage area probability sample. Part 2: Size-weighted, stratified, probability sample. |
| Data Source: | personal interviews |
Access and Availability | |
| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 1998-08-28 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2008-04-23. |
| 2000-03-21 - Logical record length versions of both datasets are now available, in addition to the SPSS portable files previously released. In addition, a STATA version of Part 1, Household Survey, is provided. Also, SAS and SPSS data definition statements for both datasets have been created. | |
| 1998-10-15 - Part 1 data have been revised to correct rounding errors in integer variables, and Part 2 has been added to the collection. | |
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The Minority Data Resource Center (MDRC) is an initiative of
the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).