Title: Modern life and health survey, 1968-1970

Series title:

Principal investigator(s): Bay, Christian

Producer: Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta

Date of creation:

Funding agency: Canada Council "Determinants of citizenship orientation"

Collector:

Depositor:

Distributor: J. Fletcher, Department of Political Science, University of Toroonto

Date of distribution: 1989-11-15

Access conditions/restrictions: unrestricted.

Summary: The objective of the survey was to understand many aspects of modern living, such as citizenship and health.

Variable categories include: origin of R and parents; socio-economic conditions at adolescence; education; household facilities; income; religion; family characteristics and organization; leisure activities; organizational membership; what R wants out of life in the future; attitudes and opinions about decision making, evil, power, punishment, work; values; social connectivity; labour force activity; decision making in the work place; volunteering and charitable donations; helping strangers; involvement in community life; information; political activity; knowledge of politics; national government should do; prejudices; trust; health.

Keywords:

Geographic coverage: Edmonton, Alberta

Time period:

Periodicity:

Date(s) of collection: 1968-1970

Universe: residents of Edmonton, Alberta

Data type: anonymized microdata file

Sample: stratified random sample

Unit of observation: individual

Mode of data collection: face-to-face interviews (?)

Citation: Bay, Christian Modern life and health survey, 1968-1970 [computer file]. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta [producer and distributor], n.d.

Extent of file: 1 data file (1,898 logical records) & accompanying documentation (3 pdf file; one SPSS syntax file)

Notes:

The SPSS syntax file is incorrect:

• it incorrectly labels the data file structure as 'free'. It isn't - it is a fixed field format ascii file
• there are no variable labels, only missing data codes and value labels for selected variables.