National Women’s Conference Delegates and Alternates from Guam

This dataset includes thorough information about the 17 delegates and alternates who represented the territory of Guam at the National Women’s Conference. Categories of data included are the following: biographical, race and ethnicity, education and career, political participation, organizational leadership, organizational membership, role at the National Women’s Conference, and position on the conference planks.
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Data was researched by undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Houston. Two more graduate students cleaned and verified the data, and a faculty lead provided a final check for accuracy before publication.
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We derived quantitative and qualitative information to build this dataset, which includes a total of 1,994 datapoints.
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Where possible data entry uses controlled vocabularies explained in the project <a href="https://sharingstories1977.uh.edu/pdfviewer/Codebook_V19_NBY_2024_09_02_8399a701b3.pdf">Codebook</a>.
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In addition to the quantitative and qualitative data, the dataset includes a bibliography of research sources used to compile the data.
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If you decide to use the data for your own project, please do cite it using the information above. If you identify errors or missing sources, please contact us so that these can be addressed.