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Description & Citation--Study No. 2958 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 2958 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02958 |
| Title: | Women and Violence in Chicago, Illinois, 1994-1995 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Susan Lloyd, Northwestern University. Center for Urban affairs and Policy Research |
| Funding Agency: | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Lloyd, Susan. Women and Violence in Chicago, Illinois, 1994-1995 [Computer file]. ICPSR02958-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02958 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of domestic violence on women's labor force participation. The hypothesis was that women who had experienced domestic violence would have lower rates of labor force participation than women with no history of domestic violence. The University of Illinois Survey Research Laboratory conducted door-to-door interviews with women in the Humboldt Park, Montclare, and Belmont-Cragin community areas of Chicago. Data collection for Part 1, Humboldt Park Data, ran from September 16, 1994, through April 9, 1995. Interviews were completed with 824 adult women residing in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Data collection for Part 2, Montclare and Belmont-Cragin Data, ran from April 10, 1995, through October 15, 1995. Interviews were completed with 149 adult women residing in the Montclare and Belmont-Cragin community areas. Demographic information was collected on respondent's race, marital status, income, and education, employment histories of the respondent, respondent's husband or boyfriend, and parents, and citizenship. Other variables include economic and social problems of the respondent's neighborhood, respondent's relationships with men, experiences as a victim of physical and sexual abuse by a husband or boyfriend, if the respondent had physical and mental problems during the past 12 months, if the respondent smoked or used alcohol or drugs, the number of days domestic problems prevented the respondent from working or going to school, whether respondent was emotionally, physically, or sexually abused as a child or teenager, in what ways the respondent's past experiences had affected her education and employment, respondent's current work experience and earnings, and whether the respondent received any type of public assistance. |
| Subject Term(s): | battered women, demographic characteristics, domestic violence, economic indicators, health status, labor force, mental health, neighborhood characteristics, relationships, social problems, substance abuse, women |
| Geographic Coverage: | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Time Period: | 1994 - 1995 |
| Universe: | Women 18 years of age or older in the Humboldt Park, Montclare, and Belmont-Cragin communities of Chicago. |
| Data Type: | survey data |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | To minimize costs and interviewer travel time, the primary sampling unit selected was the block, and each housing unit on the sampled blocks was included. The 1990 Census Tract/Block Numbering Area Outline Map and 1990 Census of Population and Housing data were used to construct a sampling frame of the total number of housing units by block and census tract in each neighborhood. A random number generator was used to take a simple random sample of blocks from the sampling frame. |
| 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: | 2000-10-05 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-18. |
| 2006-01-18 - File CB2958.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. | |
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