mis: The 1994 Multi-Investigator Survey

In list: Statistical Methods for the Item Count Technique and List Experiment

The 1994 Multi-Investigator Survey

Description

This dataset is a subset of the 1994 Multi-Investigator Survey and contains the item count technique or the list experiment. The main question reads as follows: ⁠ Now I'm going to read you four things that sometimes make people angry or upset. After I read all (three/four), just tell me HOW MANY of them upset you. (I don't want to know which ones, just how many.) (1) "the federal government increasing the tax on gasoline;" (2) "professional athletes getting million-dollar-plus salaries;" (3) "requiring seatbelts be used when driving;" (4) "large corporations polluting the environment;" (5) "black leaders asking the government for affirmative action."⁠

Format

A data frame containing the following 6 variables for 1171 observations.

y	numeric	the number of items that make respondents angry	0 - 4
sensitive	numeric	whether or not the sensitive item (asked directly) makes respondents angry	0 - 1
south	numeric	whether or not a respondents live in a southern state	0 - 1
male	numeric	whether or not a respondent is male	0 - 1
college	numeric	whether or not a respondent attended some college	0 - 1
age	numeric	age of a respondent divided by 10
democrat	numeric	whether not a respondent identifies as a Democrat	0 - 1
republican	numeric	whether not a respondent identifies as a Republican	0 - 1
independent	numeric	whether not a respondent identifies as an independent	0 - 1
treat	numeric	treatment status	0 - 1
list.data	numeric	indicator for list experiment subset (treatment and control groups)	0 - 1
sens.data	numeric	indicator for direct sensitive item subset	0 - 1

Details

where the last item is presented only with the treatment group and the control list only contains the first three items.

The survey also includes a question in which attitudes toward the sensitive item are asked directly.

⁠ Now I'm going to ask you about another thing that sometimes makes people angry or upset. Do you get angry or upset when black leaders ask the government for affirmative action?⁠

Source

The full data set is available at SDA (Survey Documentation and Analysis; https://sda.berkeley.edu/D3/Multi/Doc/mult.htm)

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