The study was conducted by Paul M. Sniderman and others for the Institute for Behavioural Research at York University.
The data was collected from a random sample of all Canadian residents, 18 years of age or over living in a household in one of the ten Canadian provinces, using random digit dialing procedures.
1988 Release
The Institute for Social Research has just complete a comprehensive survey of attitudes toward basical political and civil liberties in Canada, among both the general population and decision makers. The principal investigators for the project, funded by SSHRCC, are Paul M. Sniderman, Joseph F. Fletcher, Peter H. Russell, and Philip E. Tetlock. The two components of the survey involved interviewing using computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) supplemented with self-administered questionnaires. The General Population Survey was conducted with a representative probability sample of 2084 Canadians. The Decision Makers Survey involved 1348 interviews with systematic samples selected from each of the three branches of "government" executive (crown attorneys, Justice Department officials, police officers), legislative (members of the federal and provincial legislatures), and legal (lawyers). The General Population Survey contains 229 variables; the Decision Makers Survey contains 185 variables.
1989 Release
Same as above.
The General Population Survey contains 290 variables; the Decision Makers Survey contains 245 variables.
The codebook for this dataset is available through the UBC Library catalogue, with call number JC599.C2 A884 1988.