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Description & Citation--Study No. 9211 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 9211 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09211 |
| Title: | Physical Violence in American Families, 1985 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Richard J. Gelles |
| Murray A. Straus | |
| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Mental Health |
| Grant Number: | MH40027 |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Gelles, Richard J., and Murray A. Straus. Physical Violence in American Families, 1985 [Computer file]. ICPSR09211-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09211 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | Data were collected in this follow-up survey to compare estimates of the incidence of intrafamily physical violence with estimates obtained in an earlier survey, PHYSICAL VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN FAMILIES, 1976 (ICPSR 7733). The main component of this survey design was a national cross-sectional survey of adults in the United States who either (1) were currently married or living together, (2) were single parents with children under 18 in the household, or (3) had been married or had lived with a partner of the opposite sex within the past two years. Approximately two-thirds of American households met one of these three requirements at the time of the survey. Another objective of the survey was to generate comparisons of the incidence of intrafamily physical violence by race and ethnicity. Variables in this data collection include number of couples, single parents, and children in the household, respondent's race, ethnicity, sex, age, and marital status, number of persons in the household previously married, years lived in the community, and employment/occupation information. |
| Subject Term(s): | ethnicity, families, family structure, family violence, households, race |
| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
| Time Period: | June 10, 1985 - August 30, 1985 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | June 10, 1985 - August 30, 1985 |
| Universe: | Adults and children under 18 in American families. |
| Data Type: | survey data |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | The initial stage of sample construction required the development of a national area probability sample based upon the distribution of the adult population of the United States. Non-Hispanic Blacks, Hispanic Blacks, and non-Black Hispanics were oversampled. |
| Data Source: | telephone 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: | 1989-08-02 |
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