Variables and Values 1

Running head: Identifying Variables and Values

Homework #10

Values and Variables

Brittany J. Rudolph

SOWK 300

Tuskegee University

January 13, 2011

 Variables and Values 2

Variable Original Wording of Value Variable Label

Question
RACE What race do you 1 White
consider yourself? 2 Black
3 Other
FAMDIF16 If not living with both 1 Parent Died
own mother and father: 2 Divorced,Separated
What 3 Armed Forces
happened? 4 Insitution
5 Other
0 IAP
8 DK
9 NA
OWNDOING Please indicate which of 1 I have little influence
the following over the things that
statements comes happen to me
closer to describing you 2 What happens to me is
by circling the largely my own doing
appropriate letter: 0 IAP
8 Don’t Know
9 Refused
DRINKYR Thinking back over the 1 1 to 3 times in 12
last 12 months, about months
how regularly 2 4 to 7 times in 12
did you drink alcoholic months
beverages? 8 to 11 times in 12
3 months
1 to 3 times a month
4
5 Once or twice a week
6 3 to 4 times a week
7 5 times a week or more
8 IAP
No Answer
0
99
FORBDMAR Do you think the law 1 Forbid
should forbid marriage 2 Marriage
between 0 Not Forbid Mar
blacks and whites? 8 IAP
9 DK
NA
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CIDEKNEW Within the past 12 1

months, how many 2
people have you known 3
personally that were
4
victims of homicide.
5
6
7 Seven or More
9 NA
MOREGOOD Indicate your agreement 1 Strongly Agree
with each of the 2 Agree
following 3 Disagree
statements by selecting 4 Strongly Disagree
the number that comes
0 IAP
closest to your
answer: i. Overall, I 8 Don’t Know
expect more good things 9 No Answer
to happen to me
than bad.

SUIKNEW Within the past 12 0

months, how many 1
people have you known 2
personally that have 3
committed suicide?
4
7 Seven or More
9 NA
AIDSSCH Do you support or 1 Support
oppose the following 2 Oppose
measures to deal 0 IAP
with AIDS? a. Prohibit 8 No Opinion
students with the AIDS
9 NA
virus from
attending public school
PIKUPSEX If you had other 1 HAD SEX WITH
partners, please indicate PICK-UP
all categories 2 NOT SELECTED
that apply to them. c. 0 IAP
Casual date or pickup 8 DK
9 NA
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SEXSEX Have your sex partners 1 EXCLUSIVELY

in the last 12 months 2 MALE
been... BOTH MALE AND
3 FEMALE
0 EXCLUSIVELY
FEMALE
8
IAP
9 DK
NA

SEXFREQ2 About how many times 1

did you engage in 2
intercourse during 3
the month? 4
5
6
7
8
9
10
12
13
14
15
16
17
19
20
22
23
24
25
27
30
50
60
-1
98 IAP
99 DONT KNOW
NA
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NATRACEZ We are faced with many 1 TOO LITTLE

problems in this 2 ABOUT RIGHT
country, none of 3 TOO MUCH
which can be solved 0 IAP
easily or inexpensively.
8 DK
I'm going to name
some of these problems, 9 NA
and for each one I'd like
you to tell me
whether you think we're
spending too much
money on it, too
little money, or about
the right amount. h.
Improving the
conditions of Blacks.

DENOM If Protestant: What 10 AM BAPTIST ASSO

specific denomination is 11 AM BAPT CH IN USA
that, if any? 12 NAT BAPT CONV OF AM
13 NAT BAPT CONV USA
14 SOUTHERN BAPTIST
15 OTHER BAPTISTS
18 BAPTIST-DK WHICH
20 AFR METH EPISCOPAL
21 AFR METH EP ZION
22 UNITED METHODIST
23 OTHER METHODIST
28 METHODIST-DK WHICH
30 AM LUTHERAN
31 LUTH CH IN AMERICA
32 LUTHERAN-MO SYNOD
33 WI EVAN LUTH SYNOD
34 OTHER LUTHERAN
35 EVANGELICAL LUTH
38 LUTHERAN-DK WHICH
40 PRESBYTERIAN C IN US
41 UNITED PRES CH IN US
42 OTHER PRESBYTERIAN
43 PRESBYTERIAN, MERGED
48 PRESBYTERIAN-DK WH
50 EPISCOPAL
60 OTHER-SPECIFY
70 NO DENOMINATION
0 IAP
98 DK
99 NA
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RACMAR Do you think there 1 YES

should be laws against 2 NO
marriages 0 IAP
between 8 DK
(Negroes/Blacks/African
9 NA
-Americans) and whites?
CONARMY I am going to name 1 A GREAT DEAL
some institutions in this 2 ONLY SOME
country. As 3 HARDLY ANY
far as the people running 0 IAP
these institutions are
8 DK
concerned,
would you say you have 9 NA
a great deal of
confidence, only some
confidence, or hardly
any confidence at all in
them? m. Military