The data was collected using personal interviews from a multistage stratified probability sample of noninstitutionalized male and female populations of continental United States 18 years of age and over.
Variables include: region; county; siz of place; state; satisfaction with life; relative respect for women; favour women's movements; will women's roles keep changing, should they keep changing; prediction of advantages and disadvantages of next generation of women; areas in which women are discriminated against, including education, jobs, leadership, credit; preferred form of address for women; opinion of change of position titles, as chairman vs chairperson; opinion of equal Equal Rights Amendment; qualities most admired in a man, in a woman; more advantages to being a man or woman; prefer to work outside or stay home; (women only) annoyance value of jokes about women, nude pictures, being addressed as a 'girl', staying home, being unaccompanied in bars, etc.; (women only) characteristics of men; confidence in women in various occupations, as mayor, police, lawyer, doctor, pilot; effect on femininity of independence of women; physical or social bases of feminine vs masculine; predictions of change by year 2000 in roles of women; characteristics of R's present life; comparative strength of marriage as an institution; most satisfying lifestyle; most important reasons for marrying; important factors in a good marriage; moving for husband's job vs moving for wife's job; happy marriage without children; age to start children; ideal family size; attitude to divorce; preferred parent to get child custody; opinion on child support, alimony, alimony without marriage (palimony), woman paying alimony; current living situation; sources of disagreement with spouse; (men only) household chores R performs and frequency; does R have checking account, savings account, mortgage, personal bank loan, installment credit loan, stock shares, credit card, and it it R's own, or joint; personal problems or sources of concern or degree of concern; major problems for R and family, now and in ten years; predicted costs of goods in ten years; number, sex, and ages of R's children; household chores performed by boys, or girls, or both; sport teams should be for boys, for girls, or for both; reaction if R's daughter should move out, interreligious marriage, interracial marriage, live common law, unwed mother, homosexual, use marijuana, use hard drugs; attitudes to new morality, sexual freedom; attitude to draft, to compulsory national draft for both sexes; attitudes to law and discrimination against homosexuals; opinion on day-care centers; employment status; occupation; reason for working; (women only) does R stand equal chance with men for salary, responsibility, promotion; (women only) attitude towards colleagues; (men only) attitude to female fellow workers; (women only) is job a career or temporary; would R prefer to work for a man or woman, why; (men only) is R's wife employed, attitude to wife's job, attitude to wife earning more than husband; (women only) attitude to earning more than husband, attitude to working; would R work if good day care were available; plans to work in future; respect for man staying home while wife is working; relative amount free time; how R spends free time; (women only) reliance on convenience foods; time spent watching television, reading; what R reads; degree of physical activity; sports R plays regularly; eating habits, concern with weight; amount of stress in R's life; (women only) attitude to women's fashion, for whom R dresses, consideration in buying social clothes, casual clothes, clothes for work; conservative vs liberal; political party identification; would R vote for female presidential candidate; agree-disagree statements in women's roles, morality, marriage, single parents, abortion, etc.
Demographic data: is R head of household; marital status; is husband employed, occupation of husband; labour union membership; religion; education; age category; annual family income category; sex; race; hispanic.
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