SRL Survey Research Laboratory

UI University of Illinois

UIC University of Illinois at Chicago

UICC University of Illinois at Chicago Circle

UIMC University of Illinois Medical Center

UIUC University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

001 RELIGIOUS LIVING
 

Personal interviews with Jewish families in Chicago Jewish community on their religious education, behavior, attitudes, and institutions for Bernard Lazerwitz, UIUC. N = 458. Completed September 1966.

002 MENTAL HEALTH STUDY

Personal interviews with adults in Macon County (Decatur, Illinois) on the effects of a new community mental health program on mental patient care in that County; done for Merlin Taber, Jane Addams Graduate School of Social Work, UIUC. N = 949. Completed September 1966.

003 RETIREMENT HOUSING

Mail survey of retired and near-retired staff of the UI living in Champaign-Urbana on the adequacy of their present housing and their interest in possible University-provided housing, done for the Committee on Housing for Retired Members of the Staff, UIUC. N = 1,191. Completed May 1966.

004 COLLEGE ATTENDANCE AND PREFERENCES OF CHICAGO AREA YOUTH

Personal interviews with families in the Chicago SMSA to determine how many 14­22 year old Chicago youth, from different family backgrounds, attend or plan to attend colleges both within and outside of Illinois; done for Executive Vice President and Provost Lyle Lanier. N = 2,031. Completed October 1966.

005 FOOD PURCHASING HABITS

Personal interview survey of 194 young families with preschool children in Champaign County on their food purchasing practices and the nutritional implications of these practices for the entire family; done for Glenna Lamkin, Department of Home Economics, UIUC. Completed August 1966.

006 CHARACTERISTICS OF PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL IN COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Mail survey of 2,282 academic librarians throughout the United States on their education, experience, salary, and other characteristics, as well as their attitude toward the new library technology; done for the Library Research Center, UIUC. Completed May 1967.

007 RURAL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

Personal interviews with 1,138 citizens of Putnam and Iroquois Counties, Illinois, on the social, cultural, political, and other effects of establishing a large industrial plant in the rural-agricultural town of Hennepin, Illinois; done for Gene Summers, Department of Sociology, UIUC. Completed January 1967.

008 SOCIAL SURVEY SAMPLE

Never started.

009 MEASUREMENT OF NEGRO-WHITE RESPONSE TO "INTEGRATED" ADVERTISING STIMULI

Personal interviews with 122 African Americans and 123 whites in Chicago on their reactions to racially integrated advertisements; done for Arnold Barban, Department of Advertising, UIUC. Completed May 1967.

010 NEED FOR SENIOR COLLEGE IN SPRINGFIELD

Mail, telephone, and personal interviews with 551 government employees' families, 180 public school teachers, 163 Springfield Jr. College sophomores, and 372 Sangamon County high school graduates to determine the need for a state senior college in Springfield; done for George Hoffman, Chair, Springfield Committee for Higher Education. Completed March 1967.

011 SHIPPING FEVER IN CATTLE

Data processing and analysis of a mail survey with 129 cattle buyers in Illinois to determine conditions associated with acute respiratory disease in beef calves; done for George Woods, College of Veterinary Medicine, UIUC. Completed May 1967.

012 SECONDARY WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES

Mail survey of 191 secondary wood-using firms in Illinois on various industry problems and on the amount and kinds of wood used by industries in Illinois (especially wood purchased out of state); done for I. Irving Holland, Department of Forestry, UIUC. Completed 1968.

013 DENTAL CLINIC PATIENTS

Data processing of IBM cards on patient records for 1963 and 1965 at the UI College of Dentistry on their behavioral characteristics and their attitudes toward the treatment that they received at the dental clinic; done for Donald McElroy, Department of Oral Diagnosis, UIMC. N = 1,732. Completed August 1967.

014 HEALTH CARE IN ILLINOIS

Mail and personal interviews with three samples, totaling 4,973 persons in Illinois on health care practices in the state, done for Illinois Board of Higher Education. Sampled (a) general population, (b) physicians, dentists, public health officials, and other medical professionals, and (c) local leaders in government, business, labor, education, religion, and other fields. These studies were concerned with what medical educational facilities and programs were needed in Illinois. Completed May 1968.

015 YOUNG DEAF IN ILLINOIS

Mail survey and personal interviews with young deaf adults in Illinois who terminated special classes for the deaf within the past 10 years to determine relationship between social, marital, and occupation adjustment and type of school attended; done for Stephen Quigley, Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, UIUC. N = 425. Completed August 1969.

016 TAX REPORTING PRACTICES OF CONGLOMERATES

Data processing of about 300 mail questionnaires from conglomerate corporations on their account reporting practices for tax information to the government; done for Robert Mautz, Department of Accounting, UIUC. Completed 1968.

017 MOONLIGHTING IN THE ARMED FORCES

Data processing of Department of Defense mail questionnaires from a 1965 survey on the extent of moonlighting (holding a second job) in the armed forces; done for Harold Guthrie, Bureau of Economic and Business Research, UIUC. N = 3,739. Completed February 1968.

018 ELK GROVE VILLAGE (ILLINOIS) RECREATION

Data processing of about 700 questionnaires and a telephone nonrespondent follow-up survey with about 225 citizens of Elk Grove, Illinois, on their leisure behavior, attitudes, and opinions of recreation facilities in the area; done for George Lowrey, Department of Recreation, UIUC. Completed January 1968.

019 WATER-BASED RECREATION IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

Mail survey of families in 24 Central Illinois counties on their water recreation practices during the summer of 1967 to determine their use of water recreation facilities and the need for such future recreation areas; done for Lawrence Gahan, Department of Recreation, UIUC. N = 828. Completed April 1968.

020 STUDY OF URBAN HOUSING, CHICAGO (see 070 in this volume)

Personal interviews with 1,534 families in Chicago representing all racial, ethnic, and economic groups in the city on their present housing, their satisfaction with it, their attitudes toward racially mixed neighborhoods, and their plans to remain in the city; done for Department of Development and Planning, City of Chicago. Completed 1968.

021 LAKE FOREST (ILLINOIS) RECREATION

Data processing of survey of 750 Lake Forest, Illinois, residents to determine current use of and satisfaction with recreation facilities in the area; done for Alan Caskey, Department of Recreation, UIUC. Completed February 1968.

022 EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION OF PUPILS WITH IDENTIFIED HEARING LOSS

Data processing of evaluation of 48 students with identified hearing loss made from questionnaires circulated by Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in Springfield, Illinois, to teachers in Elgin who had students with impaired hearing; done for Hazel Bothwell, Springfield Office of Special Education. Completed February 1968.

023 OMNIBUS SURVEY I

A statewide personal interview survey of 2,012 Illinois residents, involving 15 joint clients, with questions pooled into one questionnaire. The study dealt with the following topics: schools and education, public libraries, public housing, constitutional convention, State Resources Bond Issue of 1970, driving and automobile insurance, legal status of illegitimate children, civil rights attitudes, occupational status and training, and property and real estate taxes. Completed 1968.

024 REVISION OF ILLINOIS MASTER SAMPLE

025 ENTERING FRESHMEN IN ILLINOIS COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

Data processing of a study of 6,073 entering freshmen from 19 Illinois universities to determine their characteristics and background, as well as what factors influenced them to go to college; done for Keith Smith, State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. Completed March 1969.

026 IMITATION MILK STUDY

On-the-spot store interviews with 302 persons in seven Eisner food stores in Decatur and Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to determine their reactions to imitation milk, the reasons they buy it, the uses made of it, and whether it replaces their regular milk purchases; done for John Hetrick, Department of Food Sciences, UIUC. Completed July 1968.

027 URBANA-CHAMPAIGN CAMPUS TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING

Mail survey of 5,271 faculty and staff at the UI to determine how they go to work each day, as well as their reactions to various alternative transportation and parking arrangements; done for William Kappauf, Campus Transportation and Traffic Committee, UIUC. Completed 1969.

028 CENSUS OF BLACK PERSONS IN CHAMPAIGN-URBANA

Personal interviews with 3,244 out of an estimated 3,669 African American persons in Champaign-Urbana to obtain information on their employment status and aspirations, with special emphasis on the University and craft unions' apprentice and training programs; done for William Williams, Office of the President, UIUC. Completed January 1969.

029 CURRENT APPROACHES TO DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT PROBLEMS BY PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS

Data processing of a mail survey of about 1,200 dentists and medical specialists in Illinois on their treatment of temporomandibular joint problems; done for Charles Greene, College of Dentistry, UIMC. Project terminated March 1969.
 
 

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PANEL ON CONSUMER DECISION PROCESSES (see also 078 and 145, etc., in this volume)   Panel survey starting with 311 young couples married in the summer of  1968, with waves about every six months. Personal or telephone interviews  or mail questionnaires covered the interrelationship among attitudes, product awareness, media exposure, socioeconomic characteristics, and changes in  personal circumstances in terms of consumer selection of durable goods; done for Robert Ferber, Survey Research Laboratory, UI, and Francesco Nicosia, University of California, Berkeley. Wave 1: 311 interviews; Wave 2: 286; Wave 3: 259; Wave 4: 253; Wave 5: 237; Wave 6: 224;  Wave 7: 227;Wave 8: 225; Wave 9: 224; Wave 10: 220; Wave 11:  221; Wave 12: 215; Wave 13: 207; Wave 14: 207; Wave 15: 201; Wave 16: 210; Wave 17: 206; Wave 18: 209. Final wave conducted in Spring 1981.

031 DENTAL CLINIC PATIENT STUDY

Telephone interviews with 363 dental patients at the College of Dentistry, UI, on their reactions to the dental clinic's services, where they come from, and demographic information; done for Lawrence Cohen, College of Dentistry, UIMC. Completed 1969.

032 WATER QUALITY CRITERIA

Survey in six Illinois counties to determine the types and amount of water pollution that affect the use of water for recreation; done for John O'Connor, Department of Civil Engineering, UIUC. On-site interviews with 608 persons, and at-home interviews with an additional 129. Completed 1970.

033 COMMUTER SPACE SURVEY

Mail survey of 1,030 undergraduates at UICC, on how they presently use available space on campus and what their space needs are; done for Roger Little, Department of Sociology, UICC. Completed 1969.

034 OMNIBUS II

Never started.

035 ALTERNATE DEGREES IN CHEMISTRY

Mail survey of 85 Chemistry department heads in Illinois colleges and universities on their reactions to an alternate degree program in Chemistry emphasizing teaching rather than research; done for Gilbert Haight, director of General Chemistry Program, UIUC. Completed 1969.

036 OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY

Personal interviews with 397 males in Chicago to study similarities and differences in the labor mobility of workers in the United States compared with a comparable study made earlier in Japan; for Joseph Gusfield, Department of Sociology, UIUC. SRL conducted the U.S. study only. Completed 1969.

037 FACULTY SELF-EVALUATION

Data processing and analysis of 1,691 mail questionnaires from UIUC faculty on their satisfaction with the University; done for William McClure, Bureau of Educational Research, UIUC. Completed 1969.

038 PUBLIC HOUSING

Personal interviews with 915 residents of public housing developments in Chicago on their perceptions and needs in terms of such housing; for Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago. Completed 1969.

039 BLS PILOT STUDY OF CONSUMER EXPENDITURES (see also 048 in this volume)

A pilot panel survey of 574 personal interviews with residents of Springfield and Rock Island/Moline, Illinois, using a diary record to test and develop the record-keeping forms for the BLS forthcoming national survey of consumer expenditures, income, and savings planned for 1971-72; done for U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by Seymour Sudman and Robert Ferber, SRL, UIUC. Completed 1970.

040 FACULTY CENTER (URBANA)

Mail survey of 2,088 faculty and nonacademic staff at UIUC to determine their views and support of a proposed faculty center for that campus; done for Peter Yankwich, Department of Chemistry, UIUC. Completed 1969.

041 NURSING HOME PATIENTS

Data processing of 23,872 questionnaires from a census of nursing home patients in Chicago on their attitudes toward the facilities; done for Hiram Sibley, Hospital Planning Council for Metropolitan Chicago. Completed early 1970.

042 SANGAMON COUNTY LAND USE DATA

Keypunching and verification of questionnaires on land use data for Sangamon County; done for Bradley Taylor, executive director, Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission. Involved approximately 50,000 cards. Completed 1969.

043 MINI-OMNIBUS I

Combined statewide probability telephone survey of 819 persons on their use of legal services within the past 10 years and on their attitudes toward the proposed Constitutional Convention for Illinois and laws, including tax reforms, for the state; done for Richard Arnould and Robert Corley, Department of Business Administration, and Joseph Pisciotte, Department of Political Science, UIUC; 603 interviews for both questions; 216 for legal questions only. Completed 1969.

044 MUTUAL FUNDS

Keypunching and programming for data from mail questionnaires from 75 life insurance companies on the trend toward mergers between them and mutual fund companies; done for James Gentry and Charles Linke, Department of Finance, UIUC. Completed 1969.

045 FACULTY BENEFITS PROGRAM

A ballot-type mail survey of 728 UI academic staff on the Chicago Circle campus on their attitudes toward the present faculty benefits program and certain possible changes in that program; done for Faculty Benefits Committee, UICC. Completed November 1969.

046 URBANA CAMPUS IN 1980

Mail survey of 1,241 academic staff at UIUC on their opinions of the "look" of the campus in 1980; done for Urbana Long-Range Planning Committee, Office of the Chancellor, UIUC. Completed November 1969.

047 BLACK/WHITE SUBJECTIVE CULTURE

Exploratory content analysis of representative current African American literature in popular fiction magazines to identify significant conflict roles and issues bearing on the question of African American/white subjective cultures; done for Harry Triandis, Center for International Studies, UIUC. Completed 1969.

048 BLS RECALL OF CONSUMER EXPENDITURES (see also 039 in this volume)

Additional research, using 400 personal interviews, in conjunction with study 039, in Springfield and Decatur, Illinois, especially (a) the exploration of the optimum recall period for certain kinds of major and recurrent expenditures, and (b) the exploration of the possibility of curtailing the questioning for certain kinds of expenditures now obtained by annual recall by BLS; done for U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by Seymour Sudman and Robert Ferber, SRL, UIUC. Study involved validation with retail establishments. Completed 1971.

049 BLACK/WHITE HOUSING CONDITIONS

Personal interviews with 437 African American and 265 white residents of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and its adjoining areas on the condition and economic status of African American households in comparison with households in comparable white areas; done for Paul Doebel, Department of Plant and Services, UIUC. Completed 1970.

050 MARKET POTENTIAL FOR BARK AND WOOD RESIDUES

An extended mail survey of primary and secondary wood-using industries in Illinois (excluding construction, but including furniture) on secondary wood residues; done for I. Irving Holland, Department of Forestry, UIUC. N = 1,897. Completed August 1972.

051 HEARING PROBLEMS OF THE AGED

Personal interviews sought with 280 persons, 60 or above, with SRL-administered hearing screening tests; done for Samuel Peskin, Chicago Hearing Society. Detected possible hearing problems to be forwarded to Chicago Hearing Society for further testing. Completed 1970.

052 INTERGENERATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS

Personal interviews sought with 1,600 persons in Chicago and Jackson County, Illinois; done for Harold Guthrie, Urban Institute, Washington, DC. This sample included African American and white families, above and below the poverty level, as well as a derived sample of their parents and adult siblings. Study concerned the social and economic background of all respondents. Completed 1971.

053 CHICAGO HOUSING VACANCY

Personal interviews with 13,259 Chicago residents on condition of housing and housing vacancies that exist in that city; done for Department of Development and Planning, City of Chicago. Completed 1971.

054 PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF AGNEW'S 11/13/69 SPEECH ON THE MEDIA

Telephone interviews with 569 Chicago and suburban residents on their perceptions and attitudes toward this speech and other issues of public concern; done for Mildred Schwartz, Department of Sociology, UICC. Completed late 1969.

055 ATLANTA RACIAL ATTITUDES

Data processing of 350 questionnaires on racial attitudes in Atlanta, Georgia; done for Anthony Orum, Department of Sociology, UIUC. Completed 1970.

056 ATTITUDES TOWARD CAMPUS HEALTH SERVICE (URBANA)

Study consisted of (a) mail survey of 500 UIUC students and (b) questionnaire distributed by nurses on-site at Health Service to another 1,100 students using the service; done for Laurence Hursh, University Health Service, UIUC. Completed 1970.

057 CHANGING SOCIAL MORES

Survey sought about 240 personal interviews with 40 families, involving three generations of each family, in the Chicago area, on their attitudes toward social and cultural mores; done for Charles Osgood, Institute of Communications Research, UIUC. Completed 1971.

058 MARRIED STUDENTS HOUSING

Mail survey of 722 married University students in Champaign-Urbana to evaluate their housing conditions for the purpose of ascertaining future housing needs; done for the Real Estate Research Corporation. Completed Spring 1969.

059 AUTO ACCIDENT VICTIMS IN ILLINOIS

Mail and telephone survey of 395 adult auto victims in Illinois who received insurance settlements of $100 or more to determine their satisfaction with the method of payment; done for Jeffrey O'Connell, College of Law, and Rita Simon, Department of Sociology, UIUC. Completed July 1970.

060 HANDICAPPED CHILDREN

Partial service study. SRL provided a preinterviewed control sample of 50 families for comparison to an existing sample of 100 families of handicapped children; done for Aubrey Ruess, Center for Handicapped Children, UIMC. SRL developed the questionnaire and screened the sample. Completed Summer 1970.

061 SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM (CHICAGO CIRCLE)

Personal interview study done primarily by the graduate sociology students in Sociology 400, 401, and 402; done for William Erbe, Department of Sociology, UICC. The sample was 1,400 adults in Chicago and the suburbs. The questionnaire dealt with the individual's social interactions. N = 621. Completed in 1971.

062 PERSONNEL MANAGERS IN ILLINOIS

Mail survey with telephone follow-ups of 200 Illinois manufacturing firms to determine personnel practices and the effects of civil rights legislation on testing; done for K. M. Rowland, Department of Business Administration, UIUC. Completed Spring 1970.

063 CONSUMER/PRODUCT INTERACTION

Personal interviews of 500 households in Chicago SMSA to measure meaning of product and brand use, media exposure, and store choices of Chicago consumers; done for Arnold Barban, Department of Advertising, UIUC. Completed Fall 1970.

064/264 MODEL CITIES/MODEL CITIES II

Model Cities was a personal interview survey of residents of the four Model Cities Areas in Chicago to determine attitudes toward housing and neighborhoods, and also awareness of the Model Cities Program. Done for Department of Development and Planning, City of Chicago. N = 1,033. Completed July 1971. Model Cities II was a personal interview survey of families living in the Model Cities area in Chicago to explore in greater detail the living conditions in the Model Cities area. Included those interviewed in study 064. Done for Department of Development and Planning, City of Chicago. N = 4,140. Completed July 1971.

065 PILOT STUDY OF STUDENT ECONOMICS

Mail survey of 124 Urbana campus students, 61 Chicago Circle students, and 73 Medical Center students to obtain data on student income and expenditures; done for Eugene Oliver, University Office of School and College Relations. N = 258. Completed October 1970.

066 BLUE CROSS-BLUE SHIELD

Sample selection of 750 housing units in each of four Model Cities areas in Chicago, using the listing for study 064; done for R. R. Watson, Manager of Marketing Research, Blue Cross-Blue Shield. Completed April 1970.

067 DATA ARCHIVES SURVEY

Mail questionnaire to 107 faculty in the social sciences at the Chicago Circle campus to evaluate the need and potential use of a data archive at Chicago Circle; done for Behavioral Sciences Building Facilities Committee, Subcommittee on Data Archives, UICC. N = 44. Completed in February 1971.

068 RECREATION FACILITIES (see also 134 in this volume)

Telephone survey of 1,499 adults in Illinois, including 150 adults who hunt, to determine how parks and recreation facilities in Illinois can be improved; done for Jerry Van Meter, UIUC Department of Recreation and Park Administration and Illinois Department of Conservation. Completed Summer 1970.

069 ATTITUDES OF TEACHING ASSISTANTS

Mail survey of teaching assistants in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Urbana campus, to ascertain how teaching assistants feel about their position and responsibilities and how they feel their job could be improved; done for J. H. D. Allen, Chair, Teaching Assistants Study Committee, UIUC. N = 712. Completed 1970.

070 SPECIAL TABULATIONS FOR STUDY 020

Special tabulations of data from SRL study 020 for the City of Chicago; done for the Department of Development and Planning, City of Chicago. Completed late Spring 1970.

071 PHYSICAL EDUCATION STUDY

Mail survey of 242 elementary school district supervisors, high school administrators, and athletic directors to study employment of physical education teachers in the Chicago metropolitan area, excluding the City of Chicago, for the purpose of planning better programs at the School of Physical Education at the Circle Campus; done for School of Physical Education, UICC. Completed Summer 1970.

072 COMMITTEE ON GRADUATE PROGRAMS

Mail survey of UIUC College of Commerce faculty to determine the direction and focus of Commerce graduate programs; done for John Due, Graduate Study Committee, College of Commerce and Business Administration, UIUC. N = 103. Completed Fall 1970.

073 POLICE TRAINING INSTITUTE

Data reduction and processing for survey examining the need for additional police training facilities in the northeastern section of Illinois; done for Charles Taylor, director, Police Training Institute, UIUC. N = 238. Completed August 1970.

074 WORKER ATTITUDES IN NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD ELECTIONS

Series of personal and telephone interview surveys to determine the effects of employer and union speeches or conduct on respondents' voting behavior in an NLRB election campaign; done for Stephen Goldberg, College of Law, UIUC, and Julius Getman, College of Law, Indiana University. N = Employees of 24 companies. Completed June 1974.

075 ENTERING FRESHMAN

A three-wave mail survey with telephone follow-ups of 1,300 entering freshmen at the Urbana campus and 700 at Chicago Circle to examine changes in attitudes and behavior during their first year of college; done for Alan Berger and William Simon, Institute for Juvenile Research, State of Illinois. Completed Summer 1971.

076 HOSPITAL PLANNING COUNCIL

Sampling selection for survey of community attitudes toward housing and other city conditions in two areas of the City of Chicago; done for Pierre deVise, Hospital Planning Council of Chicago. Completed in August 1970.

077 OUTDOOR RECREATION ATTITUDE PANEL

Two-stage panel telephone survey of 200 adults in Illinois to develop a standardized instrument for measuring attitudes toward outdoor recreation; done for Allen Sapora, Department of Recreation and Park Administration, UIUC. Completed October 1970.

078 CONSUMER PANEL ANALYSIS (see also 030, etc., in this volume)

Tabulations and analysis of saving and expenditure data from consumer decision panel of young married couples in Peoria and Decatur; for Robert Ferber and Francesco Nicosia.

079 LOCAL ZONING STUDY

Data reduction and processing of interviews for a study that examined the problems of local zoning committees; done for David Lager, Bureau of Urban and Regional Planning Research, UIUC. N = 335. Completed 1971.

080 INTERPRETERS FOR THE DEAF EVALUATION

Construction of a list of interpreters of the deaf in Illinois with a mail questionnaire sent to them to ascertain their backgrounds and qualifications; done for Stephen Quigley, Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, UIUC. N = 234. Completed May 1971.

081 SOUTH HOLLAND SCHOOL INTEGRATION STUDY

Telephone and personal interview survey to determine the attitudes of the South Holland community toward various degrees of integration; done for Thomas Van Dam, Superintendent, South Holland School District. N = 602. Completed December 1970.

082 SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM, URBANA

Assistance to Anthony Orum, Department of Sociology, UIUC, in the planning and conducting of a course with regard to sampling methods, questionnaire preparation, data collection, data reduction, and processing. N = 1,830. Conducted in Spring 1971.

083 NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS

Assistance in survey of 306 junior high and high school students to determine the success of the 1970 Neighborhood Youth Corps Program in reaching and preventing potential high school dropouts; done for Champaign County Neighborhood Youth Corps. Project let drop by sponsor in Spring 1971 before analysis was completed.

084 GRADUATE STUDENT RESOURCE USE

Survey of 3,180 Urbana graduate students on their use of University facilities; done for John Chaney, Office of Administrative Data Processing, UIUC. Diary forms were used to collect data. Conducted in Winter 1971.

085 SCHEDULED CLASSES

Monitoring of classes on the Urbana campus to determine the extent to which classes are held prior to vacation; done for Office of the Chancellor, UIUC. Completed December 1970.

086 RECREATION EXPENDITURES

Telephone survey of 434 residents in selected Illinois cities to estimate how much is spent for outdoor recreation and on what types of things money is spent; done for Alan Caskey, Department of Recreation, UIUC. Conducted in Winter 1971.

087 URBANA DEPARTMENT LONG RANGE PLANNING

Mail questionnaire survey of 150 department heads at the Urbana campus to determine future needs in terms of staff, equipment, and space; done for Anthony Graziano, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UIUC. N = 72. Completed June 1971.

088 RECREATION LONG RANGE PLANNING (see also 112 and 134 in this volume)

Statewide telephone survey of 1,635 Illinois residents to ascertain their attitudes toward parks and other outdoor recreation facilities in Illinois; done for Jerry Van Meter, Department of Recreation and Park Administration, UIUC. Completed January 1972.

089 STUDENT DRUG USE

Questionnaire administered in classroom settings to 1,625 students at Chicago Circle and Urbana campuses to investigate the extent of drug use by students at the University; done for Leo Levy, Department of Preventive Medicine, UIMC. Completed Summer 1971.

090 ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED YOUNG ADULTS

Personal and telephone survey using a matched sample of hard-core unemployed and working class and middle class African American and white males and females representing two age groups to determine differences in attitudes toward employment situations and authority figures; done for Harry Triandis, Department of Psychology, UIUC. Completed Summer 1971.

091 SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM III

Data reduction for 10 self-administered surveys constructed by students in the graduate sociology methods course at Chicago Circle; done for John Johnstone, Department of Sociology, UICC. Completed in Summer 1971.

092 RURAL PARTICIPATION AND PERSPECTIVES

Personal interview survey of 322 adults living in rural areas around Quincy, Illinois, to determine political and religious beliefs and attitudes of rural residents; done for Frederick Fliegel and John van Es, Departments of Agricultural Economics and Sociology, UIUC. Completed September 1971.

093 COMPUTER USERS STUDY

Mail survey of 90 heavy users of computers to determine the use of and future needs for computers at the Urbana campus; done for Norton Bedford, Computer Review Committee, UIUC. N = 40. Completed September 1971.

094 CORPS OF ENGINEERS 10-YEAR STUDY

Advice on a questionnaire for the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. Conducted in Summer 1971.

095 DETENTION FACILITIES STUDY

Questionnaire design for a survey that took an inventory of current detention practices for the planning and design of community correctional centers for adults; done for Fred Moyer, Department of Architecture, UIUC. Completed in Summer 1971.

096 PREFABRICATED MATERIALS IN MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Data reduction and processing for a survey of manufacturers of prefab construction materials to assess costs and feasibility of using prefabricated materials in military buildings; done for U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. N = 271. Completed July 1971.

097 CLOSED CIRCUIT TV IN DETENTIONAL FACILITIES

Questionnaire design and data reduction and processing for a study to evaluate the use of closed circuit TV in detentional facilities; done for Fred Moyer, Department of Architecture, UIUC. Conducted in Summer 1971.

098 STUDY OF THE USES AND NEEDS OF ILLINI UNION FACILITIES AND SERVICES

Telephone survey of 202 faculty and staff and 336 students to determine attitudes toward existing Union services such as food service, study lounges, and the ticket center and toward the need, if any, for other types of services; done for Earl Finder, Illini Union, UIUC. Completed August 1971.

099 RURAL PLANNING

Mail and personal interview survey of 504 members of rural planning commissions and 350 county officials to determine the effect of local and regional planning commissions in Illinois; done for Norman Krausz, Department of Agricultural Economics, UIUC. Conducted in 1971.

100 FAMILY SIZE SURVEY

Telephone survey of Illinois residents to determine peoples' attitudes toward being taxed to have children and being paid a monthly payment not to have more than two; done for Julian Simon (Business Administration) and Rita Simon (Sociology), UIUC. N = 220. Completed July 1971.

101 HOUSING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Assistance in survey design and interviewer training for a study that examined the housing needs and preferences of residents living near the proposed East Chicago Heights housing project; done for Robert Katz, Department of Architecture, UIUC. Completed Summer 1971.

102 TEHRAN DATA

Data processing for a completed study of social class variables and nutrition in Iran; done for C. Ernest Dawn, Tehran Research Institute, UIUC. Conducted in 1971.

103 MARKET SEGMENTATION METHODOLOGY

Sampling, advice in data collection, and data reduction on a statewide personal interview survey conducted in Arkansas to collect various types of attitudinal as well as socioeconomic and utility use data as a basis for developing improved methods of market segmentation; done for Jagdish Sheth, Department of Business Administration, UIUC. N = 407. Completed September 1971.

104 PLANS FOR STUDY OF PROSTATE CANCER

Designing of forms for a later study of the social and behavioral correlates of cancer of the prostate gland; done for I. D. Rotkin, Department of Preventive Medicine, UIMC. Completed August 1971.

105 NORTH SHORE HEALTH CARE

Duplication of data decks as the first step of a possible later study; done for Robert Lapp, Evanston Hospital. Conducted in 1971.

106 COMMUNITY ATTITUDES TOWARD DISCIPLINE IN SCHOOLS

Sample selection, questionnaire preparation, and data reduction of a group and individual sample survey in person and by mail of parents', students', teachers', and administrators' attitudes toward discipline in the Unit 4 schools; done for Champaign Unit 4 School District. N = 2,811. Completed September 1971.

107 ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Review and analysis of surveys or studies undertaken by other organizations on the general subject of the environment, with particular attention to the question of solid wastes; done for Frank Beal, Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality, Chicago. Completed November 1971.

108 ARMY FAMILY HOUSING PREFERENCE STUDY (see also 171 in this volume)

Data reduction and processing of a mail questionnaire survey conducted by the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory to ascertain family housing preferences of personnel living at U.S. Army installations. N = 2,855. Completed June 1972.

109 LANDSCAPE PREFERENCES

Personal interview study of 75 Illinois residents to determine their recreation and campsite landscape preferences; done for Allen Sapora and E. Glenn Carls, Department of Recreation and Park Administration, UIUC. Completed November 1971.

110 COLLEGE DROPOUTS

Mail study of why 1,100 enrolled students in good standing did not appear at the University to attend classes as scheduled; done for Anthony Graziano, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UIUC. N = 1,004. Completed December 1971.

111 CHAMPAIGN COMMUNITY RACIAL ATTITUDES

SRL drafted, precoded, and pretested a questionnaire and prepared interviewer training materials for the Champaign Human Relations Commission's study of attitudes toward racial issues facing the community. SRL part completed Fall 1971.

112 RECREATION LONG RANGE PLANNING II (see also 088 in this volume)

Telephone survey of respondents to study 088 for the purpose of obtaining regional differences in recreational behavior; done for I. Irving Holland, Department of Forestry, UIUC. N = 301. Completed February 1972.

113 VERMILION COUNTY RECREATION STUDY (see also 275 in this volume)

Telephone survey of Vermilion County residents to determine attitudes toward and expected use of recreational facilities; done for Vermilion County Regional Planning Commission, Danville Planning Department, and Vermilion County Conservation District. N = 409. Completed February 1972.

114 FISH AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREAS (see also 134 in this volume)

Telephone survey of 1,506 Illinois adults to determine their hunting and fishing activities and their use of wildlife facilities in the state; done for Allen Sapora, Department of Recreation and Park Administration, UIUC. Completed May 1972.

115 HAWAII CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES

Tabulations were run by SRL for three surveys conducted by the National Clearinghouse for Correctional Programming and Architecture, UIUC, that dealt with inventories of correctional facilities, alternatives to detention, and probation and parole agencies. SRL work completed November 1971.

116 DECATUR WATER SUPPLY (see also 126 in this volume)

Telephone survey of 200 nonfarmers and 97 farmers in the Decatur area to ascertain public opinion about the purported hazards of chemical fertilizers in their water supply; done for John van Es, Department of Sociology, UIUC. Completed January 1972.

117 PUBLIC OPINION OF ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE

Telephone survey of 400 eligible Illinois voters to evaluate public attitudes toward and knowledge of the state legislature; done for Charles Dunn, Institute for Government and Public Affairs, UIUC. Completed May 1971.

118 PRODUCTION AND DISPOSITION OF WOOD RESIDUES BY THE SECONDARY WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES IN ILLINOIS

Mail survey of Illinois secondary wood-users to ascertain how Illinois wood-using manufacturers dispose of their wood residues; done for I. Irving Holland, Department of Forestry, UIUC. N = 348. Completed June 1973.

119 CENSUS DIARY EXPERIMENTS

Methodological study conducted by Seymour Sudman and Robert Ferber, SRL, UIUC, for the U.S. Bureau of the Census to test the effectiveness of different diary procedures for collecting consumer expenditure data including daily telephone calls from an interviewer, weekly diaries maintained by the respondent, remuneration, and government versus university sponsorship. Wave 1 N = 307, Wave 2 N = 115. Completed January 1973.

120 MANPOWER IN COMMUNICATIONS

Data reduction for a study of 250 communication professionals outside of the news media for John Johnstone, Department of Sociology, UICC. SRL portion completed June 1972.

121 ARMY VOLUNTEER STUDY

Survey of army personnel living in barracks or BEQs on six bases to determine what kind of facilities would be conducive to re-enlistment for the purpose of establishing priorities for the improvement of facilities; done for U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. Total N = 1,694. Completed August 1972.

122 SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM, CHICAGO IIIA

Data reduction for study conducted by the students in the Sociology practicum course for James Norr, Department of Sociology, UICC. Completed May 1972.

123 SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM, CHICAGO IIIB

SRL performed several services for one phase of the practicum, including questionnaire typing and duplication, precoding, interviewing, and use of the data archive; done for George McCall, Department of Sociology, UICC. Completed May 1972.

124 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION--PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND LEADERS SURVEY

Telephone survey of 774 public officials (mayors, public health officers, public works directors, Chamber of Commerce officials, and newspaper editors) in 130 Illinois communities for the purpose of determining reactions to environmental problems. The mail portions of the survey sent to environmental activists and the mayors in the community were handled by the sponsor, Andrew Sofranko, Departments of Agricultural Economics and Sociology, UIUC. SRL work completed June 1972.

125 ACADEMIC CALENDAR PREFERENCE (UICC)

Mail study of the Chicago Circle faculty and students on their preferences on different academic calendar systems; done for John Schey, Office of the Senate, UICC. Completed May 1972.

126 OPINIONS AND ACTIVITIES OF DECATUR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS ON ENVIRONMENT (see also 116 in this volume)

Telephone study of 210 Decatur members of community organizations as a follow-up to study 116 to ascertain environmental activities undertaken by the community organizations; done for John van Es, Department of Agricultural Economics, UIUC. Completed June 1972.

127 POLICE ATTITUDES

Data processing for a police attitude study; done for Charles Taylor, Police Training Institute, UIUC. Completed May 1972.

128 CITIZENS' ATTITUDES ON THE SOLID WASTE ISSUE

Statewide probability telephone survey of 2,436 household units to explore three main topics: citizens' awareness of the solid waste problem, involvement or the level of services received, and attitudes toward possible solid waste solutions; done for Frank Beal, Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality. Completed March 1973.

129 SECONDARY SCHOOL HOME ECONOMICS TEACHERS IN ILLINOIS

Mail survey of 564 home economics teachers in Illinois public schools to study their characteristics and professional interests; done for Mary Mather, Division of Home Economics Education, UIUC. Completed February 1973.

130 NEEDS OF THE AGED IN CHICAGO

SRL assisted in the supervision of Spanish-speaking interviewers on the near West Side of Chicago in a study to determine the needs of the aged; done for Richard Moss, Mayor's Office for Senior Citizens, Chicago. SRL work completed June 1972.

131 PROPRIETARY DRUG USE

Pilot telephone survey of 97 adults in Chicago to determine the extent of abuse or misuse of proprietary drugs; done for Pedro Lecca, College of Pharmacy, UIMC. Completed August 1972.

132 TOOTHPASTE STUDY

Data reduction and processing on a study by Mary Schlinger, Department of Marketing, UICC, to discover the relationship between conceptions of self and others in terms of toothpaste used. SRL portion completed September 1972.

133 ATTITUDES TOWARD CANCER PREVENTION

Sampling work only on statewide probability telephone survey of 2,000 households to determine peoples' attitudes on cancer prevention; done for the American Cancer Society. Completed July 1972.

134 ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION USERS (see also 068, 088, and 114 in this volume)

Data reduction and processing for a follow-up based on Studies 068, 088, and 114 to determine the attitudes of suppliers of Illinois recreation in comparison to responses of users of these facilities; done for Robert Ivins, Department of Recreation and Park Administration, UIUC. N = 100. Completed August 1972.

135 METHODOLOGICAL STUDY OF MEDICAL DIARIES (see also 250 in this volume)

Panel study funded by National Center for Health Services Research (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) and conducted by Seymour Sudman, Robert Ferber, and Wallace Wilson, SRL, UIUC, to test the effectiveness of diaries in obtaining information on medical episodes and expenditures, conducted over a three-month period with 731 households in Chicago and Marshfield, Wisconsin. Five separate collection techniques were used: (a) an initial interview identical for all respondents, (b) a final interview for diary respondents, (c) a monthly ledger diary, (d) a monthly journal diary, and (e) a monthly personal interview. Completed November 1974.

136 MORGAN INDUSTRY STUDY

Data reduction for a study of Morgan Industries; done for John Johnstone, Department of Sociology, UICC. Completed December 1972.

137 THE EFFECTS OF METHODS OF ADMINISTRATION ON RESPONSE (see also 203 in this volume)

Study funded by the National Science Foundation and conducted in collaboration with NORC for Seymour Sudman, SRL, UIUC, and Norman Bradburn, NORC, to examine the relation between four methods of questionnaire administration and response effects. SRL work involved 501 completed RDD screening interviews in the Chicago area. SRL work completed November 1973.

138 COMMUNICATIONS STUDY

Pilot study of 34 in-depth personal interviews to determine general public's feelings, opinions, and attitudes toward the telephone; done for Jagdish Sheth, Department of Business Administration, UIUC. Completed September 1972.

139 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS RETIREE BENEFITS

Mail study for William McPherson, Chair of University Ad Hoc Committee on Retiree Benefits, to obtain information on what benefits and privileges retired staff members (from UIUC, UICC, and UIMC) would like from the University, excluding pensions, insurance, and housing. N = 1,178. Completed January 1973.

140 OCCUPATIONAL CODING STUDY

Study for Richard Shekelle, Department of Preventive Medicine, UIMC, to do occupational coding only on approximately 5,000 questionnaires. Completed February 1973.

141 EDUCATIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL ATTAINMENT

Analyzing data for Joe Spaeth, SRL, UIUC, under funding from the American College Testing Program. Completed August 1974.

142 TRI-SERVICE HOUSING STUDY (see also 157 in this volume)

Mail survey for U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory to gain occupant opinion of military family housing at 40 Army bases. N = 9,000. Completed December 1972.

143 OPINIONS ON WATERFOWL IN ILLINOIS

Telephone interview study for Edward Hoffman, Illinois Department of Conservation, and Allen Sapora, Department of Recreation and Park Administration, UIUC, to ascertain the demographic characteristics and opinions on selected issues of waterfowl hunters and nonhunters in Illinois. N = 869 (322 hunters and 547 general public). Completed November 1972.

144 CONSERVATION CLEANING

Data processing for Paula Warwick and Allen Sapora, Department of Recreation and Park Administration, UIUC, for a survey previously done by the Illinois Department of Conservation. Completed November 1972.
 

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CHICAGO MARRIED COUPLES PANEL (see also 030, etc., in this volume)   Extension of the panel of young married couples to the Chicago area, under  a National Science Foundation grant, starting with 409 couples married in the summer of 1972. Wave 1: 409 interviews; Wave 2: 335; Wave 3:  281; Wave 4: 257; Wave 5: 243; Wave 6: 235; Wave 7: 212; Wave 8:  199; Wave 9: 205; Wave 10: 203; Wave 11: 194; Wave 12: 199. Final  wave conducted in Spring 1981.

146 JOHNSTONE'S SPSS ANALYSIS

Data processing for John Johnstone, Department of Sociology, UICC, to analyze data using SPSS. Completed March 1973.

147 URBANA SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM II

Assistance to Joe Spaeth in planning and conducting a mail survey for the UIUC Sociology Practicum course to ascertain the political participation of Illinois college students on 26 campuses statewide. N = 947. Completed April 1973.

148 WORKSHOP FOR LEGISLATIVE STAFF MEMBERS

At the request of Al Marshall, staff assistant, State of Illinois House of Representatives, SRL conducted three workshops on statistics, research methods, and computer uses for legislative staff in Springfield to help educate legislative staff in research methods. Conducted in December 1972.

149 MENTAL HEALTH SURVEY

Data processing and data reduction for Gerald Euster, School of Social Work, UIUC. N = 155. Completed January 1973.

150 LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES

Editing, keypunching, verification, and data processing of completed questionnaires for Fred Moyer, National Clearinghouse for Criminal Justice Planning and Architecture, UIUC. N = 32. Completed January 1973.

151 ATTITUDES TOWARD THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (see also 188 in this volume)

A survey with self-administered questionnaires distributed at regional meetings of UI-affiliated groups to assess public opinion toward the UI; done for Charles Flynn, University Office of Public Information. N = 837. Completed August 1973.

152 CTA RIDERSHIP STUDY

RDD telephone study for the Department of Public Works, City of Chicago, to ascertain the general public's use of and attitudes toward the Chicago Transit Authority. N = 1,586. Completed August 1973.

153 CHARACTERISTICS OF COLLEGE SENIORS

Mail study to gather and analyze data on career plans, reactions to college, and ways of financing college education from graduating seniors in Illinois; done for Lawrence Aleamoni, Office of Instructional Resources, UIUC. N = 3,174. Completed September 1973.

154 SICKLE CELL DISEASE SURVEY (see also 209 in this volume)

Personal interview pilot study for I. D. Rotkin, Department of Preventive Medicine and the Sickle Cell Center, UIMC, to prepare a final set of data collection instruments for a major study of African American attitudes toward and knowledge of sickle cell disease. Completed June 1974.

155 PROJECT TRANSITION EVALUATION STUDY

Study for Kirschner Associates, Albuquerque, New Mexico, to locate sample respondents in the Chicago SMSA and in Decatur, Springfield, and Rockford, Illinois, and complete approximately 300 personal interviews with veterans who participated in "Project Transition" while in the service and a matching group of veterans who did not. Completed May 1973.

156 SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS

A study to survey Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian immigrants' adjustment to American life; done for Rita Simon, Department of Sociology, UIUC. Not completed due to lack of funds.

157 TABS OF OPEN-ENDED RESPONSES ON TRI-SERVICE HOUSING SURVEY (see also 142 in this volume)

Classifying, coding, and tabulating fill-in questions on Army responses to a DOD family housing survey (study 142) and provide a brief summary of results; done for U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. Completed March 1973.

158 EVALUATION OF JUNIOR COLLEGES IN ILLINOIS

Data reduction, data processing, and archive work for the Illinois Department of Finance to use in making future plans for the programs and physical facilities of the State junior colleges; done for Anthony Graziano, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UIUC. Completed February 1973.

159 CHICAGO ORLEANS HOUSING

Survey design, advice on data collection procedures, data reduction, and data processing for self-administered questionnaire study conducted by Chicago Orleans Housing to determine housing preferences and feasibility of building a moderate income project on Chicago's Near North Side. Completed April 1973.

160 SERVICE ACCESS SYSTEM EVALUATION

Telephone interview study to evaluate the Peoria Service Access System; done for Michael Brooks, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UIUC. N = 321. Completed in May 1973.

161 PARENTS' ATTITUDES ON DESEGREGATION OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Telephone survey for the Park Forest School Board to determine attitudes of Park Forest parents toward the School District's desegregation program and toward the educational system as a whole. N = 252. Completed June 1973.

162 SURVEY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ALUMNI

Nationwide mail questionnaire study for the College of Business Administration, UICC, to determine whether the objectives of the College and the training of the students were relevant to their future careers. N = 477. Completed June 1974.

163 MEDICAL CENTER RECREATION FACILITIES SURVEY

Mail survey of Medical Center faculty, staff, and students for Clarence Leverenz, Chancellor's Ad Hoc Committee on Recreation Facilities, UIMC, to determine their interest in and need for recreational facilities at the Medical Center campus. N = 2,675. Completed April 1973.

164 SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM IV

SRL assisted students in all aspects of survey work and did partial work on projects, including secondary data analysis; done for Helen Miller, Department of Sociology, UICC. Conducted during Spring Quarter 1973.

165 VALIDITY STUDIES OF STUDENT-REPORTED FAMILY INCOME

Sampling and data processing for Lawrence Aleamoni, Office of Instructional Resources, UIUC, to discover relationship between student reports of their parents' income and the parents' actual income. N = 500. Completed October 1973.

166 OMAHA, NEBRASKA, HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES

Data reduction and data processing of 119 completed questionnaires in a study of human service agencies in the Omaha area; done for Fred Moyer, National Clearinghouse for Criminal Justice Planning and Architecture, UIUC. Completed April 1973.

167 CIVIL LEGAL AID AND SOCIAL SERVICES

Study for Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation to evaluate the effectiveness of Project WALK (Work and Learning Key), a prisoner work release program in Cook County. Completed September 1973.

168 PAPER USERS METHODOLOGY

Pilot telephone interview study to ascertain information from 43 printing facilities about kinds and quantities of paper used; done for Jagdish Sheth, Department of Business Administration, UIUC. Completed May 1973.

169 JACKSON COUNTY OFFENDER PROFILE

Data processing to develop an offender profile from records of seven correctional institutions; done for Fred Moyer, National Clearinghouse for Criminal Justice Planning and Architecture, UIUC. N = 50,000. Completed May 1973.

170 ARMY FAMILY HOUSING STUDY, PHASE II

Self-administered survey of family housing preferences of personnel living on 12 Army installations; done for U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. N = 2,000. Completed July 1973.

171 TABS ON OPEN-ENDED RESPONSES--ARMY FAMILY HOUSING PREFERENCE STUDY (see also 108 in this volume)

Data reduction and tabulations of open-ended responses to study 108 questionnaire; done for U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. N = 276. Completed August 1973.

172 MUNICIPAL WATER QUALITY

Telephone survey to obtain from mayors, engineers, water suppliers, and other influential parties in 300 Illinois communities information regarding water quality, sewage procedures, etc., in relation to environmental problems; done for the Department of Agricultural Economics, UIUC. N = 999. Completed October 1974.

173 CONSUMER BEHAVIOR RESEARCH

A project sponsored by the RANN Program of the National Science Foundation to gather and synthesize present knowledge about different aspects of consumer behavior. SRL planned and commissioned parts of the study to experts in particular subject areas, held a conference based on the prepared papers, and prepared reports of the results. Completed January 1978.

174 EXTENDED DAY SESSIONS FEASIBILITY

Self-administered and telephone interview study conducted for Office of Campus Planning, UICC, to ascertain the interest of the population of Cook County in enrolling at UICC in an extended day session. Junior college N = 648; high school N = 2,675; UICC students N = 1,518; and general population N = 1,240. Completed March 1974.

175 CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERS QUESTIONNAIRE

Pilot study for the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory to prepare and pretest a mail questionnaire for gathering the information from industrial building suppliers for setting standards on prefabricated construction. Completed June 1973.

176 LATIN AMERICAN MANPOWER AND EDUCATION INVENTORY

Mail survey for Michael Goldstein, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Urban Affairs, UICC, to determine the number and extent of manpower and educational programs serving the Latin American community in Chicago. Completed June 1973.

177 HYPERTENSION AMONG ADOLESCENTS

Personal interview study on hypertension in adolescents for Richard Shekelle, Department of Preventive Medicine, UIMC, to investigate correlation between young adolescents' hypertension and their families. N = 182 family sets. Completed June 1974.

178 OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION ATTITUDINAL SURVEY

Telephone and self-administered study conducted for the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Illinois, to discover what different groups in the state (students, teachers, administrators, public opinion leaders, and general public) think about education in the state and about OSPI. Total N = 4,678. Completed March 1974.

179 ILLINOIS FARMERS STUDY

Telephone interview survey of 340 farmers in central Illinois to ascertain their use of fertilizers and pesticides, attitudes toward farming, and opinions on conservation and pollution; done for Richard Feltner, Department of Agricultural Economics, UIUC. Completed June 1974.

180 SOUTH HOLLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT 151 SURVEY (see also 229 in this volume)

Study of public attitudes in South Holland, Illinois, toward school desegregation, involving self-administered questionnaires to students, mail questionnaires to teachers, and telephone interviews with area residents; conducted for Thomas Van Dam, Superintendent, South Holland School District. Total N = 1,893. Completed June 1974.

181 EVALUATION OF PUBLIC SERVICE TELEVISION ADS

Before-and-after telephone and personal interview study in Peoria and Rockford, Illinois, of 286 employers, 879 working people, and 261 "disadvantaged" people to gather information about their attitudes toward potential entry into the labor force of disadvantaged adults and to evaluate the impact of the TV ads on these attitudes. Done for James Hough, Division of Vocational and Technical Education, OSPI. Completed December 1973.

182 DOD FAMILY HOUSING DATA

Tabulations of 3,796 responses to the Army portion of a Department of Defense military housing preference study; done for U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. Completed August 1973.

183 WEBSTER GROVES REVISITED

Coding and data processing for John Johnstone, Department of Sociology, UICC, of data collected in Webster Groves, Missouri, on the TV listenership habits of teenagers, to bring up-to-date an earlier study on the same topic conducted in 1965. N = 380. Completed December 1973.

184 HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES AND UNIFIED COURT SYSTEMS

Data processing for study of human service agencies in Omaha, Nebraska, for rehabilitating criminal offenders, and questionnaire preparation; done for Fred Moyer, National Clearinghouse for Criminal Justice Planning and Architecture, UIUC. Completed October 1972.

185 SUPPORT SYSTEMS INVOLVING WIDOWS

Personal interview study to ascertain sources of support of widows in the Chicago area and their financial and social problems; done for Helena Lopata, Center for the Comparative Study of Social Roles, Loyola University of Chicago. N = 1,170. Completed January 1975.

186 ASIAN AMERICANS IN CHICAGO

Personal interview study for Bok-Lim Kim, Jane Addams School of Social Work, UIUC, of Asian American groups--Japanese (N = 150), Chinese (N = 149), Korean (N = 228), and Filipino (N = 199)--in Chicago to determine their social service needs. N = 726. Completed July 1974.

187 UICC DROPOUTS

Telephone study to determine why 2,000 students in good standing during the 1972-73 academic year did not return to UICC in Fall 1973; done for Vernon Miller, Office of Campus Planning, UICC. N = 267. Completed January 1974.

188 STUDY OF ATTITUDES TOWARD THE UI (see also 151 in this volume)

This repeat of study 151 for Charles Flynn, University Office of Public Information, sought to obtain more impressions of public attitudes toward certain University issues by means of mail questionnaires to persons who had attended regional meetings. N = 955. Completed August 1974.

189 URBAN POPULATION DENSITY

SRL provided programming assistance as requested for Harvey Choldin, Department of Sociology, UIUC. Discontinued November 1974.

190 SERVICE SCHOOL EVALUATION

Data reduction and cleaning for U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. Completed April 1974.

191 UI EMPLOYEE ATTITUDES ABOUT THEIR JOBS

Mail study for the President's Office to ascertain University employee job satisfaction on all three campuses (UIUC, UICC, UIMC). N = 2,048. Completed August 1974.

192 SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM (URBANA)

SRL assisted Marcus Felson in planning and conducting a telephone interview study in the Chicago suburbs for the Sociology Practicum on conspicuous consumption and consumption of energy related goods and services. N = 736. Completed June 1974.

193 SANGAMON VALLEY FARMERS (see also 194 and 231 in this volume)

Personal interview survey of farmers in Sangamon Valley for Robert Klepper, Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Washington University, St. Louis, on fertilizer usage. N = 321. Completed May 1974.

194 ENERGY CRISIS (see 193 in this volume)

Rider on study 193 to assist Robert Klepper, Washington University, St. Louis, with questionnaire development and field work to determine the effect of the energy crisis on farmers. N = 161. Completed May 1974.

195 SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM V, UICC (see also 030, etc., and 145, etc., in this volume)

SRL assisted Sociology graduate students in this study of public interpretation of collective action as a supplement to Studies 930 and 345; sponsored by Robert Hall, Department of Sociology, UICC. Completed March 1974.

196 OKLAHOMA OFFENDER CHARACTERISTICS

Editing and keypunching of 1,500 survey forms administered to inmates and custodial staff in Oklahoma state prisons, for Fred Moyer, National Clearinghouse for Criminal Justice Planning and Architecture, UIUC. Completed February 1974.

197 RECREATION AREAS

SRL's part was data collection partly by observation and partly by self-administered questionnaire to measure recreational usage patterns in selected woods and parks in Illinois for William Beardsley, Department of Forestry, Iowa State University. Completed December 1974.

198 SECONDARY SCHOOL HEALTH TEACHERS

Mail study to determine how many secondary school teachers teaching health are certified and if they would attend additional courses to meet certification; done for Donald Stone, Department of Health and Safety Education, UIUC. Completed June 1974.

199 ATTITUDES TOWARD UI ENTERTAINMENT

Telephone survey conducted for Dean Daniel Perrino, Office of Student Programs and Services, UIUC, to find out what University students, staff, and faculty think about UI paid entertainment. N = 530. Completed July 1974.

200 ENERGY USE IN EAST URBANA

SRL assisted in questionnaire construction and carried out field work in a personal interview study for Judith Liebman, College of Engineering, UIUC, to measure energy use of lower income families in East Urbana. Completed July 1974.

201 PATERNITY CASES

Data reduction and some tabulations for a study to learn how paternity cases are currently handled in the courts; done for Harry Krause, College of Law, UIUC. Completed September 1974.

202 1972­1973 CONSUMER EXPENDITURE SURVEY EVALUATION

Study by Robert Pearl, SRL, UIUC, for the U.S. Bureau of the Census to evaluate the 1972­1973 Consumer Expenditure Survey of the Bureau of the Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics, including development of a plan to use results of the 1972­1973 Consumer Expenditure Survey for evaluation purposes. Completed August 1978.

203 RESEARCH ON SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA COLLECTION (see also 137 in this volume)

This study, funded by the National Science Foundation, was a continuation of prior research by Seymour Sudman, SRL, UIUC, and Norman Bradburn, NORC, on survey methods and concentrated on experimental work on the effect on responses of the location of the interview and threat. SRL work completed March 1977.

204 INDUSTRIALIZED BUILDERS

Mail study for U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory to ascertain the feasibility of using prefabricated building materials on military installations. N = 448. Completed June 1975.

205 ATTITUDES TOWARD TRAFFIC SAFETY

Statewide telephone study for Illinois Department of Transportation to assess expectations and opinions of Illinois licensed drivers on traffic safety and related issues. N = 1,110. Completed November 1974.

206 OCCUPATIONAL IMAGES--PRETEST

Pilot study for Reeve Vanneman, Department of Sociology, UIUC, on images of occupations held by males 25 years or older, involving triad comparisons among three sets of eight occupations each according to three criteria. SRL produced and pretested questionnaires. Completed September 1974.

207 ENTERING STUDENTS

Coding, editing, and keypunching of student questionnaires for Wellford Wilms, Center for Research and Development of Higher Education, University of California at Berkeley, on perceived goals of entering college students and what the actual goals were, classified by occupation and education. Completed August 1974.

208 ARMY RESERVOIR STUDY

Study for the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory to survey the topographic characteristics of U.S. Army reservoirs. SRL was responsible only for data reduction and data processing. N = 148. Completed October 1974.

209 SICKLE CELL CENTER SURVEY

Personal interview study for I. D. Rotkin, Sickle Cell Center, UIMC, to ascertain knowledge and attitudes of the African American population in Chicago concerning sickle cell disease. Three samples: 1,207 members of the general African American population, 223 community leaders, and 123 members of households with sickle cell disease. Completed August 1975.

210 ILLINOIS STATE BAR ASSOCIATION SURVEY

Mail survey for the Illinois State Bar Association to obtain information on the economic standing of attorneys in Illinois and on their attitudes toward a formal program of law specialization and prepaid or group legal service plans. N = 8,940. Completed July 1975.

211 OCCUPATIONAL IMAGES--MAIN STUDY

Telephone interview study in Chicago and suburbs with males aged 25 or older for Reeve Vanneman, Department of Sociology, UIUC, to develop a multidimensional scaling technique for evaluating men's perceptions of occupation. N = 318. SRL work terminated November 1974 owing to lack of funds.

212 IMPACT OF HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS ON THE URBAN SYSTEM

Telephone interview study in two Chicago high-rise buildings to assess impact of large, high-rise residential buildings on life in the city, for Harold Simon, Department of Energy Engineering, UICC. N = 300. Completed September 1975.

213 PROJECT TRUST (TO RESHAPE URBAN SYSTEMS TOGETHER)

SRL consulted on questionnaire design and did data reduction and data processing on this study conducted by the Council on Population and Environment involving group self-administered questionnaires to ascertain citizen views on criminal justice problems in the Chicago SMSA. N = 3,400. Completed January 1975.

214 FERTILITY MODELS

Data processing for Frances Flanagan, Department of Economics, UICC, in a study demonstrating through an economic model the effects of welfare payments on fertility. Completed November 1975.

215 SERVICE FEE BUILDINGS

Mail survey of UIUC students for the Chancellor's Office, UIUC, to determine if students would support a fee increase, how satisfied they are with service fee buildings, and how they would allocate fees. N = 903. Completed March 1975.

216 RACIAL IDENTIFICATION WITH TELEVISION PROGRAMS

Telephone interview survey in Chicago for John Leckenby, Department of Advertising, UIUC, to investigate the opinions of four different groups of people--African Americans and whites in low and moderate income levels--toward two television programs, "All in the Family" and "Sanford and Son." Total N = 225. Completed December 1974.

217 COUNTY PROSECUTORS

Data reduction and data processing for National Clearinghouse for Criminal Justice Planning and Architecture, UIUC, of 241 questionnaires from nationwide mail survey of the most optimal and efficient use of space in the offices of county prosecutors. Completed March 1975.

218 OLDER CITIZENS IN CHICAGO

Personal interview study for Bernice Bild, Urban Research Corporation, of special groups of older persons in Chicago--homeowners, residential hotel residents, African Americans, and Polish American--to ascertain their status and needs in the areas of health, housing, transportation, finance, and social isolation. N = 519. Includes Polish version. Completed May 1975.

219 DIALYSIS CONSUMER WORKSHOP EVALUATION

SRL assisted in questionnaire design, did data processing, and prepared a brief report for the Kidney Foundation of Illinois in its evaluation of the effectiveness of dialysis consumer workshops in the Chicago area through self-administered questionnaires completed by participants before and after the series of workshops. N = 114. Completed June 1975.

220 CHILDREN IN INSTITUTIONS (DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES)

Assistance on questionnaire design and training interviewers for Andrew Gordon, Center for Urban Affairs, Northwestern University, in personal interview study of children in foster homes and institutions. Completed May 1975.

221 HYPERTENSION FOLLOW-UP

Telephone interview study for Jeffrey Salloway, Department of Sociology, UIUC, of 266 African Americans in Chicago selected from a hypertension screening program to determine differences among clinic utilizers, nonutilizers, dropouts, and normotensives, particularly regarding their social network systems as they pertain to compliance or noncompliance with hypertension treatment. Completed June 1975.

222 CENSUS DATA--GRADUATE COLLEGE

Preparation of census data for the Housing Research and Development Program, UIUC. Completed January 1975.

223 CENSUS DATA--WABASH PLANNING COMMISSION

Preparation of census data for the Greater Wabash Regional Planning Commission. Completed January 1975.

224 SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM, FALL 1974: DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION

Consultation and performance of miscellaneous tasks for UICC Department of Sociology's Practicum in study of deinstitutionalization of drug offenders in a "halfway house." Completed June 1975.

225 ATTITUDES TOWARD THE UI--1975

SRL assisted with questionnaire construction and did data processing in a mail survey for Charles Flynn, University Office of Public Information, to members of University-affiliated citizens' groups throughout the state to elicit their opinions on various questions affecting the UI and higher education in general. N = 983. Completed June 1975.

226 TAPE COPYING

Copying public use sample census data for Leonard Heumann, Department of Urban Planning, UIUC. Completed February 1975.

227 BANK DATA

Preparation of census data for Office of the Commissioner of Banks and Trust Companies, Springfield. Completed February 1975.

228 NEVADA INMATE SURVEY

Data reduction and data processing of 1,073 questionnaires from study of inmates and officers of corrections facilities in the state of Nevada, South Bend (Indiana), and El Paso (Texas) and 1,562 questionnaires from survey of probation and parole clients in the state of Montana, for the National Clearinghouse for Criminal Justice Planning and Architecture, UIUC. Completed August 1975.

229 ATTITUDES TOWARD DESEGREGATED SCHOOLS (see also 180 in this volume)

Study conducted for Thomas Van Dam, Superintendent, South Holland (Illinois) School District, to examine the effects of Title III and Title VI programs on communities in the district. Telephone interviews with 367 residents in district who were respondents in study 180. Completed August 1975.

230 Second wave of Panel on Consumer Decision Processes (see 030, etc., in this volume)

231 SANGAMON VALLEY FARMERS FOLLOW-UP (see also 193 in this volume)

Telephone reinterview survey for Robert Klepper, Washington University, St. Louis, of 284 farmers in the Upper Sangamon River basin in Illinois who were interviewed in person in Spring 1974 (study 193) to confirm 1974 planting expectations and to learn 1975 crop-year plans. Completed May 1975.

232 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION SURVEY

Questionnaire construction advice and data reduction and data processing for the Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, in their study of environmental education activities. N = 607. Completed May 1975.

233 HOSPITAL SPEECH PATHOLOGY SERVICES

Data reduction and data processing for Twila Strandberg, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, UIUC, in study of directors and staff of hospital speech pathology departments in the United States to determine types of services provided and main types of disorders treated. N = 1,525. Completed March 1975.

234 EVALUATION OF LOW-INCIDENCE HANDICAPPED CHILDREN PROGRAMS

Evaluation for the Department of Exceptional Children, Illinois Office of Education, of the administrative, financial, and programmatic effectiveness of the Chicago and 12 regional programs in Illinois for educating low-incidence handicapped children. Involved telephone interviews with administrative offices and team site visits. Completed September 1975.

235 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION SURVEY

Advising on sampling, questionnaire, and study design and typing questionnaire for National Council of Teachers of English. Completed March 1975.

236 JURY SELECTION PROJECT

Data reduction and data processing for Shari Diamond, Department of Criminal Justice, UICC. Completed April 1975.

237 JUDGES' SENTENCING HISTORIES

Data reduction and data processing for Shari Diamond, Department of Criminal Justice, UICC. Completed April 1975.

238 ECIEL--ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA

Assistance to ECIEL (Estudios Conjuntos sobre Integración Ecónomica Latinoamericana) in analyzing data and preparing reports for its project on income distribution in Latin America and assistance on other ECIEL studies pertaining to the economic development of Latin America. Completed May 1981.

239 STOCKHOLDER MOTIVATION

Advice on questionnaire design and personal interview pretest of 10 Champaign-Urbana residents for Marshall Blume, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, for a national study to explore why people invest in corporate stock and the factors influencing them to buy and sell stock at particular times. Completed June 1975.

240 RETIREMENT HOUSING

Telephone interview study of UI retirees in Champaign-Urbana to determine the level of interest in middle income housing, for Clark-Lindsey Villadom Board of Trustees. N = 209. Completed May 1975.

241 CENSUS DATA

Preparation of census data for Regional Manpower Commission, Greyville, Illinois. Completed June 1975.

242 ADULT EDUCATIONAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS

SRL assisted the UI Office of the Associate Vice President for Public Service in questionnaire development and interviewer training, did data reduction and data processing, and prepared a report for a telephone survey of the adult population and UI alumni near four junior colleges in north central Illinois to ascertain adult learning preferences. Total N = 1,732. Completed December 1975.

243 EVALUATION STUDY OF SICKLE CELL WORKSHOPS

SRL consulted on survey design and development of three questionnaires for study by the Education Programs of the Sickle Cell Center, UIMC, to evaluate the effectiveness of workshops to train sickle cell anemia counselors. Completed March 1976.

244 CENSUS DATA--ROCKFORD SMSA

Preparation of census data on the Rockford (Illinois) SMSA for the Illinois Commerce Commission. Completed June 1975.

245 Second wave of Chicago Married Couples Panel (see 145, etc., in this volume)

246 ANALYSIS OF DATA ON AGING

Consultation with Ethel Shanas, Department of Sociology, UICC, on data processing for study on aging. Completed August 1978.

247 QUALITY OF LIFE IN ILLINOIS

SRL assisted in questionnaire preparation and trained telephone interviewers for Daniel Johnson, Sangamon State University, in study of the quality of life in midsized cities in Illinois. Completed June 1975.

248 ILLINOIS COOPERATIVE HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM

Data processing for design and development of a computerized entry and retrieval system for a statewide health information system as part of a consortium involving the UI School of Public Health, the SIU School of Medicine, and the Illinois Department of Public Health. Completed July 1976.

249 ILLINOIS EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES HOUSEHOLD INTERVIEW SURVEY

Statewide personal interview survey for the School of Medicine, Department of Health Care Planning, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, in conjunction with the Illinois Department of Public Health to obtain baseline data on public knowledge, attitudes, and use of emergency medical services in Illinois. N = 829. Completed January 1976.

250 THE USE OF DIARIES FOR COLLECTING HEALTH DATA (see also 135 in this volume)

Two-year project funded by the National Center for Health Services Research and conducted by Seymour Sudman, SRL, UIUC, continuing exploratory work on the use of diaries for collecting health data in household surveys (study 135). Involved initial telephone screening of 5,214 households in Illinois to obtain medical experience and demographic information, which yielded 1,360 households that participated in the study. Three treatments were used: (a) three personal interviews at monthly intervals, (b) diary keeping for three months with compensation, and (c) diary keeping without compensation. In addition, for personal interviews, half were by telephone instead of face to face, and for diaries, half the households were asked to mail them back. Completed January 1979.

251 PUBLIC REACTIONS TO WIND ENERGY DEVICES

Study funded by the National Science Foundation and conducted by Robert Ferber, SRL, to explore reactions of the general public toward construction of different types of windmills for generating electrical energy. Involved personal interviews in six different parts of the United States with household interviews in five locations and two waves of interviews at Sandy Hook unit of Gateway National Recreation Area in New Jersey before and after construction of a small windmill. Interviews included showing slides of windmills. Total household N = 1,431; total Sandy Hook N = 736. Also, self-administered questionnaire distributed at NASA Plum Brook windmill (N = 154). Completed October 1977.

252 NOISE AWARENESS

Study for U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory to design and pretest at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a personal interview questionnaire for reliable measurement of annoyance levels in communities where blast noise (artillery) and helicopter and aircraft noise occur as by-products of military training activities. N = 60. Completed February 1977.

253 WHOLISTIC HEALTH CENTERS

Study for Wholistic Health Centers to evaluate the health care offered by the Centers in Hinsdale and Woodridge, Illinois. Involved telephone interviews with 387 Wholistic Health Center patients to assess their satisfaction with the care received and mail questionnaires from 144 physicians and 96 clergymen in Hinsdale and Woodridge to ascertain their attitudes toward the Centers. Completed June 1976.

254 COMMUNITY NEEDS SURVEY

Telephone survey of 259 residents of Cicero and the Chicago area for the UI Division of Broadcasting to ascertain what they feel are the major issues and problems in their community. Completed October 1975.

255 STUDY OF MIDWESTERN RESOURCES FOR DOCTORAL EDUCATION IN NURSING

Mail study for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (Helen Grace, College of Nursing, UIMC--project director) to identify the need for doctoral programs in nursing in the Midwest and to inventory the resources that would support the development of such programs. Questionnaires were sent to three groups: 25 graduate programs in nursing, 193 nurses with doctorates within the Midwest, and 247 potential doctoral students in nursing. Completed November 1976.

256 NORTH CENTRAL ACCREDITATION SELF-STUDY QUESTIONNAIRE

SRL rewrote questionnaire and did some data reduction and data processing for Office of Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UICC. Completed February 1976.

257 DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS

Study for Governor's Advisory Council on Developmental Disabilities and Capital Development Board to estimate the number and types of developmentally disabled persons in Illinois who are in need of residential services. Mail questionnaires were sent to 110 agencies with responsibility for dealing with the developmentally handicapped. Completed December 1976.

258 CHAMPAIGN COUNTY AREA PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM

Telephone interview study of 517 rural Champaign County residents for UI College of Nursing--Area Health Education System to determine the health problems, needs, and concerns of the rural population of Champaign County, Illinois, and to gather information that would enable agencies to understand rural health problems and plan health programs acceptable to rural residents. Completed August 1976.

259 ILLINOIS SAMPLING

Selection of a sample of Illinois telephone subscribers for Rita Simon, Law and Society Program, UIUC. Completed January 1976.

260 SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM 1976/URBANA

SRL assisted the UIUC Sociology Department and Joan Huber in planning and conducting a study of sex role attitudes as part of the practicum course in research methods, including help in designing and pretesting the questionnaire, training and supervising students in telephone interviewing, conducting additional interviews, and providing a clean data file. N = 778. Completed July 1976.

261 HANDBALL COURTS IN CHAMPAIGN/URBANA

SRL assisted Joseph Bannon, Department of Leisure Studies, UIUC, in designing a self-administered questionnaire and did the data reduction and data processing for a survey of citizen interest in racquetball/handball facilities in Champaign-Urbana. N = 518. Completed March 1976.

262 TOWNSHIP HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS

Data reduction and data processing for Barbara Solomon, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, UIUC, in a study to ascertain the demographics of township highway commissioners. Completed July 1976.

263 THE LAW OF CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY

Mail survey for Paul Marcus, College of Law, UIUC, to assess practices in criminal conspiracy prosecutions. Ns = 633 attorneys, 120 judges, and 69 law professors. Completed July 1976.

264 Second wave of Model Cities/Model Cities II (see 064 in this volume)

265 MOBILE INTENSIVE CARE UNITS ACTIVITY REPORTS

Data reduction and data processing for Office of Emergency Medical Services, Illinois Department of Public Health, to prepare data file on Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU) patients from data collected on forms completed by ambulance attendants in EMS-MICU program in Illinois. Completed September 1977.

266 BARIUM IN DRINKING WATER

Interviewer training for survey to ascertain if barium is causing health problems in West Dundee and McHenry, Illinois, for Gary Brenniman, School of Public Health, UIMC. Completed April 1976.

267 AMERICAN ISSUES FORUM DATA

Data reduction and data processing for American Library Association. Completed June 1976.

268 IMPACT OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES ON RURAL AREAS

SRL designed a personal interview questionnaire and conducted a small pretest in Clinton, Illinois, for the Institute for Environmental Studies, UIUC, to assess the social and economic effects on rural communities of new industries or physical changes such as dams. Completed November 1976.

269 CENSUS DATA--ILLINOIS LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION

Preparation of census data for the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission. Completed April 1976.

270 LABOR MARKET ANALYSIS IN CHAMPAIGN, FORD, IROQUOIS, AND PIATT COUNTIES--EMPLOYERS

SRL assisted the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission in designing and pretesting a questionnaire, training personal interviewers, and conducting 240 telephone interviews with employers to determine how federal employment training programs can more effectively meet the needs of employers in the four-county area. Completed July 1976.

271 CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESEARCH SUPPORT NEEDS

Mail survey for Richard Roistacher, Center for Advanced Computation, UIUC, to assess data needs of criminal justice researchers in the United States. N = 71. Completed September 1976.

272 ANALYSIS OF APPRENTICESHIP APPLICATIONS TO INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS

Data reduction for Judson Miner of Davis, Miner and Barnhill (Chicago) of applications for apprenticeship. Completed December 1977.

273 COMMUNITY VALUES IN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY

Telephone interview study for the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission to obtain views of Champaign County residents concerning growth policy and related issues. N = 501. Completed June 1976.

274 AGRICULTURAL NONPOINT SOURCES OF POLLUTION

Assistance on questionnaire design for the Institute for Environmental Studies, UIUC. Completed June 1976.

275 VERMILION COUNTY REVISITED (see also 113 in this volume)

Reinterviews with 77 of the respondents to an earlier study of Vermilion County, Illinois, residents (study 113) to learn their current opinions on the building of a dam and their sources of information, for Carl Castore of Purdue University. Completed May 1976.

276 MINORITY STUDENT PROGRAMS AT UICC

Study for the University Office of School and College Relations to gather data for an evaluation of three special academic support programs for minority students at UICC. Involved personal or telephone interviews or mail questionnaires with 351 students in the programs and telephone interviews with 33 high school counselors and 34 community agencies. Completed August 1976.

277 KENNEDY-KING COLLEGE STUDENTS

Consultation on questionnaire construction and data reduction and data processing of 501 questionnaires for John Warren, Kennedy-King College, Chicago, in a study to determine characteristics of dropouts from the college. Completed July 1976.

278 TEXTILES AND CLOTHING: ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES

SRL consulted on questionnaire design, conducted 100 personal interviews with residents of Champaign County, and did data reduction for a study to determine women's clothing care practices and attitudes toward textiles legislation and the quality of clothing available, for Carol Warfield, School of Human Resources and Family Studies, UIUC. Completed April 1977.

279 STUDY OF CHANGING COMMITMENTS OF WOMEN TO WORK AND FAMILY ROLES

Personal interview study in the Chicago area for Helena Lopata, Center for the Comparative Study of Social Roles, Loyola University of Chicago, funded by the Social Security Administration, to determine the changing commitments of women. N = 996. Completed June 1978.

280 DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING

Copy-testing study for David Gardner, Department of Business Administration, UIUC, in which television and magazine ads were shown to respondents to obtain their reactions to advertising copy. Includes Spanish version. SRL work finished January 1977.

281 MOBILITY LIMITED--TRANSPORTATION

Study for the Department of Public Works, City of Chicago, to identify the "mobility limited" population in Chicago and determine the level of their ability to use public transportation and to ascertain their transportation needs. Involved RDD telephone interviews with 773 residents in a demonstration area on Chicago's North Side and with 1,035 residents in the rest of Chicago and personal interviews with 96 nursing home residents. SRL work completed April 1977.

282 ATTITUDES TOWARD STANDARD AUDIT REPORT

Data reduction and data processing for Richard Ziegler, Department of Accounting, UIUC, of 897 questionnaires in study of bank credit analysis. Completed October 1976.

283 MARKET POTENTIAL OF SERVICES OF AN INFORMATION ANALYSIS CENTER

Study for the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory--canceled.

284 COMMUNICATION DATA ANALYSIS

Monthly analysis of communications data from the Cancer Information Service and production of reports, for the Illinois Cancer Council. Completed February 1981.

285 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRIMARY CARE CHARACTERISTICS AND PATIENT HEALTH OUTCOMES

Consultation with William Smith, Rockford School of Medicine, and Daniel Barr, UIMC, on development of a proposal. Completed December 1977.

286 UNEMPLOYED/UNDEREMPLOYED IN FOUR COUNTIES

Preliminary work for the Champaign Consortium on a survey of the unemployed and underemployed in the four-county Consortium area. SRL work completed August 1976.

287 HEALTH EFFECTS OF AEROSOL EMITTED FROM AN ACTIVATED SLUDGE PLANT

Personal interview study for Robert Northrup, School of Public Health, UIMC, to determine whether the health of persons residing adjacent to a sewage treatment plant in the northern Chicago suburban area is different from that of persons living further from the plant. N = 801. Also assistance in Health Watch diary-keeping phase of the study. Completed July 1978.

288 CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Study funded by the National Institute of Education and conducted by Joe Spaeth, SRL, UIUC, to continue analysis of the NORC longitudinal survey of 1961 college graduates with focus on sex and race differences in earnings and job satisfaction. Completed August 1979.

289 NOISE AWARENESS, PHASE II

Personal interview survey for the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory to ascertain community reaction to military noise in the vicinity of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. N = 2,152. Completed November 1978.

290 ENERGY RESOURCES CENTER CONSULTING

Consulting and keypunching for a study conducted by the Energy Resources Center, UICC. Completed September 1977.

291 URBAN TO RURAL MOBILITY

Telephone interview survey for James Williams and Andrew Sofranko, Department of Agricultural Economics, UIUC, to study reverse migration in the North Central region of the United States and to determine how rural communities are affected by new residents and why people move to rural areas. N = 1,635. Completed May 1978.

292 EVALUATION OF SOUTH SHORE EXPERIMENTAL LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM

Preliminary work in Chicago for study of South Shore Experimental Legal Services Program, for Timothy Stein, Department of Psychology, UICC. Study canceled March 1977.

293 SURVEYS OF EXISTING AND POTENTIAL ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS, SERVICES, AND STUDENTS

Study of part-time students in Illinois for the Illinois Board of Higher Education, the Advisory Council on Adult, Vocational and Technical Education, and the Illinois Office of Education to assess enrollments in specific programs, to determine what is studied and why, and to identify educational needs. Involved four surveys with mail questionnaires to 838 part-time college students and 630 adults in public school district programs and telephone interviews with 407 noneducational and proprietary institutions and with 2,006 adults in the general population. Completed August 1977.

294 SYMPHONY AND THEATER ATTENDANCE

Telephone interview survey in four southern cities for Alan Andreasen and Russell Belk, Department of Business Administration, UIUC, to examine several aspects of symphony and theater presentations as they affect the attitudes and patronage intentions of patrons grouped according to lifestyle characteristics. N = 1,491. Completed September 1978.

295 WILDERNESS VALUES AND OPINIONS

Telephone interview study for Robert Young, Department of Forestry, UIUC, to determine Illinois residents' knowledge and use of wilderness areas. N = 503. Completed June 1977.

296 FIREARMS OWNERSHIP IN ILLINOIS--SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM, 1977

SRL assisted the UIUC Sociology Department and David Bordua in a study of reasons for gun ownership in Illinois as part of the practicum course in research methods, including help in designing and pretesting the questionnaire, training and supervising students in telephone interviewing, conducting additional interviews, and providing a clean data file. N = 764. Completed July 1977.

297 COMMUNITY SURVEY OF RIVER FOREST

Study for River Forest Mental Health Committee--never started.

298 RESIDENCE HALLS--UI CAMPUS

Data reduction and data processing of questionnaires filled out by residents of UIUC residence halls; done for Housing Division, UIUC. Completed July 1978.

299 BELIEFS AND EXPERIENCES OF DISSATISFIED PURCHASERS OF USED MOTOR VEHICLES

Data processing of 841 questionnaires from complainants who had purchased a used motor vehicle from a dealer and preparation of a report for the Federal Trade Commission on marketing practices in the sale of used vehicles. Completed April 1977.

300 CENTRALIZED CANCER PATIENT DATA SYSTEM

Consulting and setting up a data processing system for the Illinois Cancer Council for development of pilot model of the Centralized Cancer Patient Data System in Illinois. Completed May 1980.

301 UI CLERICAL WOMEN: WOMEN'S CAREER PROFILES

Pilot study for Marianne Ferber (Economics) and Bonnie Birnbaum (Family and Consumption Economics), UIUC, to obtain work histories of women clerical workers at UIUC aged 35 and over and to determine whether mail or telephone interviews produce the best results. N = 516. Completed April 1978.

302 CHICAGO TRANSIT SECURITY PROJECT--PHASE II

Two telephone interview surveys for the Department of Public Works, City of Chicago, to assess the perceived level of crime and security before and after the installation of a "Teleview Alert" system at four CTA rapid transit stations on Chicago's South Side. Wave 1 N = 698; Wave 2 N = 734. Completed March 1982.

303 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' KNOWLEDGE OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR

Consulting on development of writing exercises to increase knowledge of high school students about consumer behavior, for the Education Commission of the States. Completed July 1977.

304 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE ANALYSIS

Data analysis for Margaret Peisert, SIU School of Medicine, to help prepare annual report. Completed May 1977.

305 YOUTH PANELS

Advising on request for proposals and survey organization selection for new national study of youth employment to involve two new cohorts as part of National Longitudinal Studies of Labor Force Behavior, for Herbert Parnes, Center for Human Resource Research, Ohio State University. Completed October 1977.

306 RECREATIONAL WATER QUALITY AND HEALTH

Consulting work for Gary Brenniman, School of Public Health, UIMC. Completed January 1978.

307 INDUSTRIAL NOISE SURVEY

Mail questionnaire survey of industrial firms in Illinois for the Illinois Task Force on Noise to determine whether they are bothered by noise emissions from neighboring industrial properties. Completed March 1978.

308 "TREASURES OF TUTANKHAMUN" EXHIBITION VISITOR SURVEY

Self-administered questionnaire survey at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago for the National Endowment for the Humanities to collect statistical information about visitors to the exhibition and to assist in an evaluation of its effectiveness in communicating to the public. N = 747. Completed August 1977.

309 QUALITY OF LIFE AS INFLUENCED BY AREA OF RESIDENCE (see also 320 in this volume)

Sampling and field work for Marilyn Dunsing and Jeanne Hafstrom, School of Human Resources and Family Studies, UIUC, to ascertain satisfaction with various aspects of life (family, employment, community, etc.) in a metropolitan area. Involved 107 families in Decatur and 108 in Peoria that included a husband, wife, and child 18 or under, with the wife interviewed in person and self-administered questionnaires left for the husband and a teenage child if there was one. Completed November 1977.

310 "SURVEY OF MINERALS AND HEALTH" DATA

Cleaning data for Gary Brenniman, School of Public Health, UIMC. Completed August 1977.

311 COMMUNITY ECOLOGY AND THE ADAPTATION OF ELDERLY PERSONS (see also 344 in this volume)

Personal interview study for Stephen Golant, Department of Geography, University of Chicago, to obtain information on the needs and problems of persons 60 years of age and older living in Evanston, Illinois. N = 491. Completed March 1978.

312 CLIENT SATISFACTION/VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION

Telephone survey for the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago to determine the feasibility of obtaining baseline data on the Association's discharged patient population for future use in improving health care delivery. N = 137. Completed January 1978.

313 ANALYSIS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DATA

Data processing for George Fisher, U.S. Department of the Treasury, to determine whether salary discrimination exists between white male and minority employees in banks. Completed April 1978.

314 MINORITY BUSINESSES

Assistance in sampling and data collection in mail survey with telephone follow-ups of minority-owned businesses in the Midwest for Gerald Whittaker, Department of Accounting, UICC. N = 749. Completed November 1977.

315 OWNERS OF WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS

Study for the U.S. Department of Energy to determine how many individuals in the continental United States own windmills used for generating electricity, their location, and their experiences with the windmills. Preliminary work involved mail questionnaires to windmill manufacturers, associations, etc., to find population of windmill owners. Rest of study canceled November 1979.

316 NEEDS OF THE HANDICAPPED POPULATION IN CHICAGO

Telephone interview study for the City of Chicago Department of Development and Planning to determine needs of the physically disabled population in Chicago in the areas of housing, health, education, employment, and recreation. Sample partially composed of respondents to study 281. N = 1,338. Includes Spanish version. Completed August 1978.

317 NEED AND USE OF HEALTH SERVICES IN UNDERSERVED AREAS

Mail and personal interview study for Frederick Kviz, College of Nursing, UIMC, in Illinois and the other states in HEW Region V to evaluate the validity of the Index of Medical Underservice by measuring the extent to which residents of rural counties perceive that they are in need of medical services and by examining present utilization patterns. N = 3,055. Completed September 1980.

318 METHODS OF COLLECTION, MEASUREMENT, AND VALUATION OF FOUR SELECTED WEALTH COMPONENTS

Project for the DHEW Office of Survey Development to review past studies and outline approaches toward providing more valid information on consumer holdings of selected financial assets: savings accounts, life insurance, home ownership, and owning a farm or business. Completed May 1978.

319 CANCER INFORMATION NEEDS IN ILLINOIS (see also 405 in this volume)

Telephone interview survey for the Illinois Cancer Council (with Richard Warnecke, SRL and the Illinois Cancer Council, as principal investigator) to gather baseline data on current knowledge, beliefs, and behavior regarding cancer of specific sites (breast, cervix/uterus, colon/rectum, and skin) among hard-to-reach rural and urban population groups in Illinois. N = 1,608. Completed February 1980.

320 QUALITY OF LIFE AS INFLUENCED BY AREA OF RESIDENCE, PHASE II (see also 309 in this volume)

Second phase of a study for Marilyn Dunsing and Jeanne Hafstrom, School of Human Resources and Family Studies, UIUC, to ascertain satisfaction with various aspects of life in a nonmetropolitan area. A survey similar to that in study 309 was conducted with 101 families in Paxton, Illinois. Completed March 1978.

321 HOUSING, NEIGHBORHOODS, AND FAMILIES--SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM, 1978

SRL assisted the UIUC Sociology Department and Harvey Choldin in a study of child-rearing differences based on housing situation in two Chicago area communities as part of the practicum course in research methods, including sampling, supervising students in telephone interviewing and other survey tasks, and providing a clean data file. N = 562. Completed June 1978.

322 PERSONAL LIFE STYLES AND CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION

Consulting on questionnaire design and conducting telephone interviews in Chicago households regarding respondents' timing and locations of activities and history of criminal victimization, for Marcus Felson, Department of Sociology, UIUC. N = 214. Completed July 1978.

323 CHAMPAIGN-URBANA MASS TRANSIT DISTRICT BUS RIDERS

SRL was responsible for data reduction and data processing in this self-administered survey to assess rider satisfaction with the MTD bus system; done for the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission. Completed June 1978.

324 AGING AND KINSHIP TIES AMONG JAPANESE-AMERICANS

Telephone screening and personal interviews for Masako Osaka, Department of Sociology, UICC, to learn about the changing nature of the Japanese family in American society. Involved interviews in the Chicago SMSA with 153 younger Japanese Americans and 98 of the mothers. Includes Japanese version. Completed May 1979.

325 COMMUNITY DYNAMICS, SOCIAL COMPETENCE, AND ALCOHOLISM IN ILLINOIS

Telephone interview survey for Demitri Shimkim (Anthropology and Geography, UIUC), Richard Thomas (Anthropology, UIUC), and Miriam Rodin (Epidemiology, UIMC) in which random samples of the adult population were compared with panels of adult alcoholic volunteers on drinking patterns, social network and support systems, and various measures of community integration in order to compare the social patterns of alcoholics with those of nonalcoholic community residents in the Lakeview area of Chicago's north side. N = 330. Completed July 1978.

326 BEAT REPRESENTATIVE PROGRAM HOUSEHOLD SURVEY

SRL was responsible for sampling and data collection in this telephone interview survey of 1,050 adults in Chicago for Melaniphy and Associates to evaluate the Beat Representative Program designed to prevent and suppress crime. Includes Spanish version. Completed June 1978.

327 ATTITUDES TOWARD WOMEN AND WORK

Nationwide RDD telephone survey for Joan Huber, Department of Sociology, UIUC, to study sex role beliefs of 2,002 adults aged 18­65. In households with married couples, both spouses were interviewed if possible. Completed March 1979.

328 WILDERNESS USERS PANEL STUDY (SCREENING PHASE) (see also 355, 402, 429, 488, 517, and 556 in this volume)

SRL provided consultation on sample and questionnaire design for Robert Young, Department of Forestry, UIUC, in a screening survey to identify "new" wilderness users of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Minnesota. Completed June 1978.

329 THIRD BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON HEALTH SURVEY RESEARCH METHODS

Prof. Seymour Sudman, SRL, UIUC, was coordinator for the Third Biennial Conference on Health Survey Research Methods held in May 1979 in Reston, Virginia. Objectives of the conference were (l) to identify and stimulate research in key areas; (2) to bring unpublished scientific and technical work to the attention of professionals; (3) to suggest and recommend new areas of research needs; and (4) to publish a monograph of the proceedings for wide distribution to survey researchers, users of survey data in the health field, and policy makers and funding agencies in the health field. SRL work completed July 1981.

330 Third wave of Panel on Consumer Decision Processes (see 030, etc., in this volume)

331 TRANSPORTATION OF THE ELDERLY IN ILLINOIS

SRL assisted the Illinois Department of Aging in designing questionnaires for a study to assess characteristics of state-supported transportation services and their users. Completed February 1979.

332 PSEUDORABIES IN SWINE

Mail survey with a telephone follow-up for George Woods, College of Veterinary Medicine, UIUC, to determine if differences exist in the swine-raising practices of farmers who have and have not experienced pseudorabies in their swine herds. N = 769. Completed May 1979.

333 STUDY OF IMPORT AND DOMESTIC PRICES (see also 483 in this volume)

SRL carried out this study for William Cline of the Brookings Institution by going to stores in four major, geographically diverse cities (Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia) to check whether lower prices of imported goods are passed on to consumers. Completed October 1978.

334 NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND EMPLOYMENT ATTITUDES OF THE ELDERLY IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY

Personal interview survey conducted with 815 noninstitutionalized persons aged 60 and over in six regions of suburban Cook County, Illinois, for the Suburban Cook County Area Agency on Aging to assess the need for supportive services and to determine the types of employment sought by older persons. Completed June 1979.

335 ILLINOIS MINOR CROP PESTICIDE ASSESSMENT

SRL assisted Herbert Hopen, Department of Horticulture, UIUC, in questionnaire development, typing, and data reduction for this personal interview survey to determine how pesticides are used by commercial horticulture establishments in Illinois. N = 133. Completed December 1979.

336 DIARY COOPERATION SCREENING FOR WORKING WOMEN

SRL screened an Illinois statewide sample of about 2,200 numbers by telephone to obtain the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of 250 working women who agreed to cooperate in a one-week diary study for Helen Steeves, Department of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin­Madison. Completed October 1978.

337 PLANNING AND EVALUATION IN ILLINOIS SCHOOL DISTRICTS (see also 369, 397, 425, 456, 498, and 541 in this volume)

SRL organized and analyzed data gathered by self-administered questionnaires and from files in 158 school districts in Illinois regarding votech programs; done for Barbara Macikas, Department of Vocational and Technical Education, UIUC. Completed June 1979.

338 PRISON SPACE NEEDS

Data reduction and data processing for Moyer Associates, Chicago, to project prison space needs in several geographic areas in the United States and Canada. Completed October 1978.

339 ANALYSIS OF THE EARNINGS, EMPLOYMENT, AND IMPACT OF IMMIGRANTS TO THE U.S. (see also 408 in this volume)

In this study funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, Barry Chiswick, SRL and UICC Department of Economics, analyzed the earnings, employment, and labor force participation rate of the foreign born and their native born children and estimated the impact of immigrants on the aggregate national income in the United States and on the distribution of that income. Final report completed June 1980.

340 ATTITUDES TOWARD WILDERNESS AREAS

SRL consulted on sampling techniques and developed a questionnaire in a mail and telephone survey for Robert Young, Department of Forestry, UIUC, to determine how new wilderness users' attitudes change over time. Completed February 1979.

341 ASSESSMENT OF REGIONAL ADULT EDUCATION SERVICE CENTERS

Telephone interview survey conducted with 96 persons involved with adult education and English as a second language to determine the continuing education needs and desires of adult educators and to evaluate the effectiveness of regional adult education service centers in Illinois in meeting those needs; done for Charles Kozoll, Office of Continuing Education and Public Service, UIUC. Completed February 1979.

342 SURVEY MEASUREMENT OF PENSION EQUITY

Study for Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Office of Survey Development to develop typologies of private pension plans currently in operation and to conduct a survey to determine the ability of respondents to report the information needed in estimating their pension equity. Preliminary work only; study canceled August 1979.

343 IMPROVEMENT OF INTERVIEWING IN SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION CLAIMS PROCESSES

In this study for the Social Security Administration, SRL observed SSA claims interviews and conducted group discussions of interviewing problems with SSA claims interviewers in Champaign, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, and Meridian, Mississippi, to identify specific interviewing techniques and procedures that have proved effective in survey research and can be transferred to SSA and AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) claims interviewing processes. Final report completed November 1979.

344 SOCIAL NETWORKS OF THE AGED (see also 311 in this volume)

SRL conducted telephone interviews in Evanston, Illinois, for John Poulin, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, for a study to investigate within a social network framework how the elderly maintain their friendship ties. Sample of 154 elderly persons was drawn from respondents to study 311. Completed March 1979.

345 Third wave of Chicago Married Couples Panel (see 145, etc., in this volume)

346 UNDERGRADUATE LIVING IN UI RESIDENCE HALLS

SRL assisted in this mail survey for Sammy Rebecca, Housing Division, UIUC, to obtain students' attitudes toward a variety of residence hall issues. N = 3,876. Completed January 1979.

347 MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT SURVEY

Telephone interview survey for Vincent Garcia, Champaign County Mental Health Board, with 1,019 Champaign County and 109 Ford County residents to measure the incidence and prevalence of mental health problems and to identify service-seeking behavior. Completed March 1980.

348 PUBLIC IMAGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Multiphase study involving two surveys to assess attitudes of UI alumni toward the University--telephone interview survey of selected older alumni (N = 301) and mail survey of random sample of all alumni (N = 617) with telephone follow-ups of sample of nonrespondents (N = 75)--and mail survey to collect data from UI departments, institutes, etc., on the major accomplishments of the University in teaching, research, and public service in the past five years; done for Lewis Barron, UI Foundation. Completed October 1979.

349 CENSUS PROMOTION EVALUATION PRETEST

Telephone interview survey for the U.S. Bureau of the Census with 151 respondents nationwide to obtain baseline data measuring the issues, concerns, and levels of knowledge in people's minds relating to the 1980 Census. Includes Spanish version. Completed April 1979.

350 VULNERABILITY TO ABUSE OF CONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL DATA HELD BY ORGANIZATIONS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR (see also 612 in this volume)

Mail survey for David Linowes, School of Social Science, UIUC, to assess policies of Fortune 500 companies (N = 74), banks (N = 34), and insurance companies (N = 19) related to the privacy of employee and client records. Completed August 1980.

351 PERCEPTIONS OF INCOME EQUITY--SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM, 1979

SRL assisted the UIUC Department of Sociology's practicum course and William Form in sampling, field, and data reduction in a survey of Illinois residents to ascertain their attitudes toward the American economic system and problems experienced as a result of that system. N = 691. Completed August 1979.

352 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP PRIORITIES

Mail survey for the American Library Association to determine the interest of ALA members in various ALA activities and concerns. N = 523. Completed April 1980.

353 SENIOR CITIZEN REDUCED FARE PASS PROGRAM EVALUATION

Personal and telephone interview survey for James Foerster, Department of Urban Sciences, UICC, to determine the Chicago Transit Authority ridership of senior citizen Reduced Fare Pass holders. Completed August 1979.

354 STUDY OF THE TRAINING OF SMALL AGENCY PROBATION OFFICERS

Study for the UICC Office of Law-Related Research to develop a knowledge base for training probation officers from small agencies. Involved mail questionnaires from 616 administrators (directors of court services and chief probation officers) and 1,134 probation officers nationwide, plus site visits to 36 agencies. Completed October 1979.

355 WILDERNESS USERS STUDY (see also 328, 402, 429, 488, 517, and 556 in this volume)

Mail and telephone survey for Robert Young, Department of Forestry, UIUC, as first wave of proposed five-year panel study to determine how the attitudes of wilderness users of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Minnesota change over time. N = 366. Completed September 1979.

356 PESTICIDE USAGE SURVEY

Data reduction and data processing for Michael Owen, Department of Agronomy, UIUC, in a study to determine the types and amounts of pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides used on Illinois farms in 1978. Completed April 1980.

357 PUBLIC BROADCASTING IN ILLINOIS

SRL drew the sample and produced labels for Donald Mullally, Division of Broadcasting, UIUC, for a study that gave Illinois residents an opportunity to express attitudes toward and make suggestions about public TV and radio. Completed April 1979.

358 MIDLIFE CAREER CHANGE

Telephone interview survey with 203 persons (25-65 years old) employed full time in Chicago and Peoria to assess how people feel about making changes in their occupations or life work roles and what problems arose if they made changes; done for Judith Scott Hunter, UIUC Department of Vocational and Technical Education. Completed June 1979.

359 EDUCATION OF PROFESSIONAL ENTRY LEVEL ACCOUNTANTS

Mail survey for Gary Siegel, Department of Accounting, UICC, as a pilot study to establish benchmark measures of student professional orientation resulting from the structure of the educational institution (professional school of accountancy or graduate accountancy department) attended. N = 857. Completed June 1979.

360 TRAVEL DESTINATION OF CTA RIDERS

SRL assisted in data collection for this study, which involved distributing 1­1.5 million self-administered questionnaires on Chicago Transit Authority lines to obtain trip destination of CTA riders during a two- to three-week period; done for James Foerster, Department of Urban Sciences, UICC, with funding from the Chicago Transit Authority. SRL work completed June 1979.

361 PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT FOR PART-TIME FACULTY OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES

Telephone interview survey of 92 community college administrators in Illinois for Charles Kozoll, Office of Continuing Education and Public Service, UIUC, to evaluate the impact of a program development project for part-time faculty members. Completed June 1979.

362 LIBRARY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION STUDY

SRL assisted the American Library Association in a mail survey to collect information on the sex and racial/ethnic background of the professional staffs of academic and public libraries to determine compliance with federal Affirmative Action guidelines. Involved mail questionnaires from 1,057 directors of academic and public libraries nationwide. Completed June 1981.

363 CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING RESEARCH LABORATORY'S SYSTEMS BUILDING MANUFACTURER PROFILE

Mail survey for U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory of manufacturers of prefabricated building products and services that could be used in military construction. N = 291. Completed December 1979.

364 ADAPTATIONS TO CRIME

Telephone interview survey of 1,803 adult residents of the Chicago metropolitan area to ascertain their opinions about safety and the quality of life in their neighborhoods; done for the Center for Urban Affairs, Northwestern University. Completed August 1979.

365 FEASIBILITY SURVEY OF THE EMPLOYERS OF APPREHENDED UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS

A pilot project, funded by the Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, and conducted by Barry Chiswick, SRL and UICC Department of Economics, to test the feasibility of interviewing employers regarding their hiring practices in general and their hiring of undocumented aliens in particular. Involved personal interviews with 31 employers in Chicago identified through the apprehended undocumented aliens whom they had hired. Completed July 1980.

366 HIGHWAY DATA (see also 421 and 466 in this volume)

SRL set up a data base management system and did keypunching and analysis of data on Georgia and Illinois highways for Michael Darter, Department of Civil Engineering, UIUC. Completed April 1981.

367 ADULT EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PREFERENCES IN ILLINOIS

Telephone interview survey for the Illinois Board of Higher Education involving interviews with 4,003 Illinois residents to gather information on enrollments in courses or programs at specific locations and institutions, to determine what is being studied and why, and to identify educational needs and barriers to attendance. Completed November 1979.

368 THE ILLINOIS HORSE INDUSTRY

Mail survey for the Illinois Department of Agriculture to determine how successful the incentive programs administered by IDOA have been in increasing the number of Illinois race horses and also to ascertain characteristics of horse owners and breeders. Involved 759 horse owners, breeders, and enterprises in Illinois. Completed April 1980.

369 VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION SCHOOL EVALUATION II (see also 337, 397, 425, 456, 498, and 541 in this volume)

Processing of 1979--1980 data for a study of planning and evaluation of votech programs in selected Illinois school districts; done for Barbara Macikas, Department of Vocational and Technical Education, UIUC. Completed June 1980.

370 COMPENSATION POLICIES FOR OVERLOAD INSTRUCTION IN EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

Mail survey of university administrators nationwide for Robert Nelson, Executive Development Center, UIUC, to gather information on faculty compensation for short courses (N = 20) and executive development programs (N = 17). Completed March 1979.

371 STUDY OF FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES COMMISSION--GENERAL PUBLIC

Telephone interview survey of Illinois households for the Office of the Auditor General, State of Illinois, to determine people's awareness, perceptions, and use of the Fair Employment Practices Commission and other State job discrimination programs. N = 404. Completed November 1979.

372 STUDY OF FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES COMMISSION--ADVOCACY GROUPS

Mail survey of advocacy groups in Illinois for the Office of the Auditor General, State of Illinois, to ascertain their contact with and attitudes toward the Fair Employment Practices Commission. N = 132. Completed October 1979.

373 ANALYSIS OF NUTRIENT INTAKE OF THE AGED

Questionnaire construction and interviewer training for MaryBeth Buschman, College of Nursing, UIMC, in a pilot study involving personal interviews, observation at meals, and recall interviews with elderly persons in households and nursing homes in Champaign County to assess the feasibility of obtaining dietary recall information from the elderly. Completed November 1979.

374 ILLINOIS REMINISCENCE SURVEY

Telephone interview study with 662 Illinois adults for Marcus Felson, Department of Sociology, UIUC, to investigate what the teenage years were like for persons in various age cohorts. Completed February 1980.

375 EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN FOOD STAMP PROGRAM

Telephone interview survey of persons eligible to participate in the food stamp program in Chicago to learn why food stamps are or are not used and the effect of dropping the purchase requirement for stamps on program participation and on food expenditures; done for Janet Hunter-Holmes, Department of Family and Consumer Economics, UIUC. N = 206. Completed September 1980.

376 THE EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS IN THE UNITED STATES

Study funded by the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor, and conducted by Barry Chiswick, SRL and UICC Department of Economics, to analyze the unemployment experience of immigrants and to estimate the impact of immigrants on the unemployment and earnings of the native born population in the United States. Final report completed November 1981.

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HOUSEHOLD NETWORK SURVEYS OF CANCER CARE COSTS: A RESEARCH PILOT STUDY

Two and one-half year project for the National Center for Health Statistics and the National Cancer Institute involving a series of methodological experiments to evaluate the potential effectiveness of network sampling for identifying a national sample of cancer patients and to test alternative methods of collecting detailed medical, health care services utilization, and cost-of-care data from cancer patients. Completed September 1982.

378 DISABILITY PROVISIONS IN PRIVATE PENSION PLANS

Mail survey of 5,000 business establishments in the United States, conducted under subcontract with Thomas Jacobs and Associates, Chicago, with funding from the Social Security Administration, to ascertain the extent to which workers under private pension plans are covered by disability provisions, the nature of this coverage, and the experience with such provisions over the past decade. Preliminary work only; study canceled August 1981.

379 OBTAINING IMPROVED REPORTS FROM CONSUMERS ON LIFE INSURANCE AND DURABLE GOODS

Study for the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS, to investigate methods for obtaining improved reports from consumers about two components of net worth/equity in life insurance and ownership of durable goods. Included a personal interview survey with 944 persons in the Chicago SMSA involving five experimental treatments: advance mail questionnaires asking households to complete a checklist of the characteristics of their life insurance versus no advance contact, compensation versus no compensation, and self-administered questionnaires about ownership of durable goods sent to households in advance of the personal interview on life insurance (included compensation). Completed July 1981.

380 NET WORTH SURVEY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTER (see also 424 in this volume)

This center, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Survey Development to assist in the development of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), performed various tasks aimed at improving the reliability of data collected on net worth, including such components as vehicles, consumer durables, insurance, pension equity, savings accounts, stocks and bonds, farm land, business assets, and mortgages. Ended summer 1981, when work was continued as study 424.

381 APPROACHES TO CANCER PATIENT MANAGEMENT

Assistance to Richard Warnecke, SRL, UICC, in producing a monograph for the National Cancer Institute that described the development and experiences of seven regional networks of hospitals and physicians involved in the management of head and neck cancer patients using a new system of health care delivery. Completed August 1981.

382 GENERIC DRUG PRESCRIPTION COSTS

SRL assisted Jesse Stewart, College of Pharmacy, UIMC, in a study involving checking pharmacists' prescription records to figure out cost savings to consumers as a result of the 1978 Illinois generic drug laws. Completed April 1980.

383 ELDERLY VOLUNTEER INTERVIEWING

Pilot study for Stanley Steinkamp, Department of Economics, UIUC, to develop a methodology for conducting cost-effective surveys of the aged by using elderly volunteers as interviewers. Work suspended May 1980 owing to insufficient recruitment of the elderly.

384 BELL MARKETING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM EVALUATION

Telephone interview study with 164 Bell Systems managers nationwide to evaluate the effects of a Bell executive program for job relevance, usefulness of information, and feedback from participants; done for Jagdish Sheth, College of Commerce and Business Administration, UIUC. Completed January 1980.

385 ATTITUDES TOWARD AIR POLLUTION

Telephone interview survey for the Chicago Lung Association of 407 adults in the Chicago SMSA to assess attitudes toward air pollution in the Chicago area, particularly auto pollution and emissions inspection programs. Completed April 1980.

386 LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN THE FOOD PROCESSING SECTOR

Mail survey for John Ettlie, Department of Management, DePaul University, focusing on the food processing sector and examining factors that influence innovativeness of organizations, information and manpower flows, and governmental actions. SRL's part involved questionnaires to the top organizational managers in organizations in the food packaging industry nationwide. N = 235. Completed August 1981.

387 ILLINOIS RESEARCH READERSHIP SURVEY

Mail survey for UIUC College of Agriculture to determine reader attitudes toward Illinois Research, a publication containing summaries of recent research in various agricultural fields by UI researchers. N = 320. Completed April 1980.

388 FAMILY SIZE AND LATER KIN CONTACTS

Personal interview survey for Joan Aldous and David Klein, University of Notre Dame, to examine the quantity and quality of parent­adult child contacts after children leave home, as affected by family size. Involved 58 Notre Dame alumni in the Chicago metropolitan area and Northwestern Indiana in their first marriages with at least two children. Completed June 1980.

389 HEALTH CARE SEEKING BEHAVIOR--1980 SOCIOLOGY PRACTICUM

SRL assisted the UIUC Department of Sociology and William Cockerham in a telephone survey of Illinois residents conducted as part of the practicum course in research methods to ascertain determinants of seeking health care for illness or

injury. SRL's help included sampling, supervising student interviewers, conducting additional interviews, and providing a clean data file. N = 707. Completed July 1980.

390 MARRIED COUPLES RELATIONSHIP