Study of Political Socialization: Parent-Child Pairs Based on Survey of Youth Panel and Their Offspring, 1997

This panel study is part of a series of surveys designed to
assess political continuity and change across time for biologically
related generations and to gauge the impact of life-stage events and
historical trends on their behaviors and attitudes. The purpose of
this study was to obtain social, political, and economic information
from the "youth" portion of the socialization panel study, which began
in 1965 with a national sample of high school seniors, and from their
offspring aged 15 and older as of 1997. This data collection combines
the two sources of data in the form of parent-child pairs, with one
key objective being the analysis of influence relationships within the
family. The dataset is explicitly designed to facilitate the use of
parent-child pairs as the units of analysis. The parent portion
includes 478 cases, omitting the 457 cases (49 percent of the 935
total) for which there were no eligible offspring or where the
offspring could not be located, did not receive the self-administered
questionnaires (SAQ), or elected not to complete it. See YOUTH-PARENT
SOCIALIZATION PANEL STUDY, 1965-1997: YOUTH WAVE IV, 1997 (ICPSR 4023)
for the data file containing all of the Wave IV cases. The Offspring
portion (the third generation) includes 769 cases and can be used in
and of itself, but it omits 10 cases that could not be linked with a
particular parent. See NATIONAL SURVEY OF THIRD GENERATION MEMBERS OF
THE YOUTH-PARENT POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION STUDY, 1997 (ICPSR 3926) for
a data file containing all cases. Collection of SAQ data from the
offspring was dependent upon their parents' supplying the correct
locations of their eligible offspring. Background variables include
age, sex, religious orientation, level of religious participation,
marital status, ethnicity, educational status and background, place of
residence, family income, and employment status.