SRO Study Catalog
Projects from 1947 – 2012. For more information on any project listed here, please contact the SRO Archivist, Kelly Chatain (kchatain). See MPR for projects conducted between 2012 and current day.
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| 1 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1947 | U.S. Army Uniform Survey | Metzner, Charles A. | Survey of Army personnel to assess attitudes towards the various features of proposed new dress uniforms. Personnel were interviewed at Army bases in the U.S., and overseas bases in Europe and the Pacific. | 1 |
| 2 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1947 | National Survey of Liquid Assets (Survey of Consumer Finances) | Katona, George | Survey of saving, liquid assets, income, and spending for durable goods. Separate questionnaire for farm owners. Oversample of high income households. | 5 |
| 3 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1947 | Public Library Survey | Metzner, Charles, and Angus Campbell | To evaluate the effectiveness of library services in terms of frequency of use, user characteristics, and satisfaction with library services. | 12 |
| 4 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1947 | Interim Survey on Consumer Behavior and Attitudes | Katona, George | Study of consumer expectations about prices, income and general economic conditions. Spending and saving behavior and plans. | 13 |
| 5 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1947 | A Study of Cities | Jacobson, Eugene | Survey of cross-section and Community Leader respondents, assessing attitudes about cities as places to live, work and raise families; attitudes about civic leaders and city government. | 15 |
| 6 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1947 | Trends in International Outlook | NA | Selected respondents from 1946 and 1947 SRC surveys, who had shown themselves to be well-informed, were asked about attitudes toward the Marshall Plan. | 18 |
| 7 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1947 | Prudential Study | Katz, Daniel, and Floyd Mann | Study of productivity, supervision and morale of Prudential Insurance Co. clerical workers and supervisors. | 6 |
| 8 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1947 | Attitudes Toward Russia | NA | Study of public attitudes toward Russia and U.S. - Russian relations | 7 |
| 9 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1947 | Public Views on American Foreign Policy | NA | Study of public attitudes toward U.S. foreign policy. Major issues included England and her role in WWII; economic aid to foreign countries; relations with Russia; communist expansion; U.S. occupation of Germany | 8 |
| 10 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1948 | Interim Survey on Post-War Bond Buying and Consumer Finances | Katona, George | Study of consumer expectations and purchase intentions. Survey also asks about attitudes toward Government Savings Bonds. | 33 |
| 11 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1948 | Survey of Consumer Finances | Katona, George | Survey of consumer income, saving and spending for durable goods. Emphasis in this survey was on respondents' means of saving. | 14 |
| 12 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1948 | The Studebaker Study | NA | Study of union-management relations in South Bend Studebaker plant. Interviews with foremen, union stewards, union officials, top management, and cross-section of plant workers. | 23 |
| 13 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1948 | Faculty Retirement Study | Likert, Rensis, and Angus Campbell | Study of faculty opinions about the University of Michigan's retirement and pension programs. | 32 |
| 14 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1948 | Detroit Edison Study | Mann, Floyd | 1st line and lower intermediate supervisors, and non-supervisory employees interviewed about employee/supervisor relations, working conditions, and how the company was viewed as an employer. | 21 |
| 15 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1948 | Hospital Patient Survey | Maccoby, Eleanor | Patient survey of attitudes about hospital facilities, care and treatment. Interviewing was done by U-M hospital staff. | 54 |
| 16 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1948 | Attitudes Toward United States-Russian Relations | Withey, Stephen | Public attitudes about U.S foreign policy in general and attitudes toward current affairs in U.S. relations with Russia. | 41 |
| 17 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1948 | Survey of Consumer Finances - Post-slump Study | Katona, George | Additional sample to P. 14 (1948 SCF), studying the effects of the commodity price decline of February, 1948, on consumer attitudes. Number of interviews included in total for P. 14. | 24 |
| 18 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1948 | Chesapeake and Ohio Study | NA | Study of psychological factors relating to productivity and morale in the Pere Marquette division of the C&O Railroad. Maintenance-of-way workers (N=298) and their foremen (N=72) were interviewed. | 31 |
| 19 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1948 | American Cancer Society Study | Metzner, Charles | Study to determine public information about and attitudes toward cancer; to determine to what extent aims of ACS are known and accepted; to assess effectiveness of 1948 money-raising and educational campaign. | 34 |
| 20 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1948 | American National Election Study | Campbell, Angus, and Robert Kahn | Study of political behavior and attitudes. Originally planned as a pre-election study only. Due to upset election of Truman, a post-election re-interview was added. | 46 |
| 21 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1949 | Prudential Experiment - Intermediate Supervisory Questionnaire | NA | Study of supervisory roles, perceptions of supervisor/employee relationships. | 67 |
| 22 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1949 | October Economic Survey | Katona, George | Interviews with new cross-section respondents and re-interviews with January 1949 SCF respondents, asking about economic attitudes and durable goods purchases and purchase plans, and bond and stock ownership. | 60 |
| 23 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1949 | Sixth International Survey | Metzner, Charles | Attitudes about foreign affairs, the relationship between respondents and foreign policy makers, and changes in attitudes over time. | 61 |
| 24 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1949 | Survey of Consumer Finances | Katona, George | Survey of consumer habits and expectations regarding savings, stock ownership, liquid assets, and expenses | 42 |
| 25 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1949 | Rockefeller Reliability Check of 1948 and 1949 SCF Studies | Katona, George | Methodological study to check reliability of data collected in the 1948 and 1949 Survey of Consumer Finances studies (Projects #14 and #42). | 51 |
| 26 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1949 | 5th International Affairs Study | Metzner, Charles | Study of factors leading to an interest in foreign affairs, and to the development of different attitudes toward international events. Interviews conducted with residents of Albany, New York. | 52 |
| 27 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1949 | Phoenix (AZ) Community Survey of Mental Health | Horwitz, Murray | Investigation of the attitudes and opinions of the public toward mental health and mental health facilities. | 55 |
| 28 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1949 | Summer Economic Survey - 1949 | Katona, George | Study to determine consumer attitudes toward the 1949 economic downturn, and it's effect on buying plans, savings, and feelings of economic security. | 57 |
| 29 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1950 | Office of Naval Research | Campbell, Angus | Study of ONR personnel to learn about the factors which influence the porposes, performance and satisfactions of people who work together in an organization | 62 |
| 30 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1950 | Public Evaluation of Life Insurance | Katona, George | To study public attitudes toward life insurance as a means of achieving economic security; satisfaction with agents and companies; attitudes toward other forms of saving (bonds, securities, real estate) | 83 |
| 31 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1950 | Survey of Consumer Finances | Katona, George | Fifth consecutive survey of consumer financial habits: savings; changes in family composition; use o fliquid assets; life insurance; stock ownership, purchases and sales. | 59 |
| 32 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1950 | Pilot Study of Mortgage Lenders | Katona, George | Study of lending institution records of recent home purchases. If institution agreed to allow access to records, Iwer selected two names from back records and contacted purchasers. | 92 |
| 33 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1950 | The Public and Business | Withey, Stephen, and B.R. Fisher | Study of public attitudes toward "big business." | 73 |
| 34 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1950 | Public Thinking Regarding Atomic Energy | Metzner, Charles | Study to determine the effect of living near an atomic energy installation on reactions to atomic energy. Information collected on awareness of issues, knowledge of phenomena, hazards, and information sources. | 53 |
| 35 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1950 | Civil Defense in the Atomic Age | Belknap, G. | Expectations of war and bombings; conceptions of and reactions to atomic attack; reactions to civil defense measures and R's own role | 89 |
| 36 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1950 | Factors Affecting Home Purchases | Katona, George | To provide information to the building industry about the needs, interests, and desires of those purchasing homes; to study how people make decisions about home purchases; to study the effect of credit controls | 84 |
| 37 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1950 | Seventh International Study | Fisher, B. R. | Reinterview survey of Study #61 participants, asking about attitudes toward the European Aid Program, aid for Asian countries, and whether respondents see Communism as an imminent danger. | 77 |
| 38 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1950 | Caterpillar Tractor Co. Study | Kahn, Robert, and Daniel Katz | Survey of worker satisfaction in a large industrial company. Areas considered: the job itself, wages and promotions, working conditions, supervision, work group and fellow employees, the company as a whole. | 58 |
| 39 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1950 | Industrial Mobility in Michigan | Katona, George | Executives of small and medium sized firms were interviewed to determine what things are important in locating a plant, and to study Michigan's advantages/disadvantages compared to other states as an industrial location. | 82 |
| 40 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1951 | Television Survey in Ann Arbor Schools | NA | Survey of student attitudes toward television and TVprogramming. Additional survey items about hobbies, movie attendance and preferances. | 81 |
| 41 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1951 | Attitudes Towards Inflation and Savings Bonds | Katona, George | To measure attitudinal change about inflation and savings bonds; to explore the relationship between international events and U.S. economic conditions | 119 |
| 42 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1951 | Survey of Consumer Finances | Katona, George | Sixth annual study of consumer attitudes, purchase plans, and savings. Additional questions about war bonds, credit terms and G.I. Dividends. | 86 |
| 43 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1951 | Attitudinal Survey of Foreign Relations | Withey, Stephen | Training interview; public attitudes about how nations interact; how the U.S could improve it's foreign policy; level of understanding about world affairs | 101 |
| 44 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1951 | Civil Defense | Belknap, G. | Follow-up to 1950 study (P.#89 )on public attitudes toward atomic warfare and civil defense; to study effects of Korean talks on these attitudes | 102 |
| 45 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1951 | Maytag Employees Study | Kahn, Robert, and Gerald Gurin | Study of job satisfaction, attitudes of supervisory personnel, and working conditions at a major manufacturing plant. | 95 |
| 46 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1951 | Caterpillar Methodology Study | Kahn, Robert, and Daniel Katz | 110 | |
| 47 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1951 | Economic Affairs and Foreign Affairs | Katona, George | Consumer attitudes about the economy, durable purchase expectations, and foreign affairs; emphasis on inflation, threat of war with Russia, the Korean conflict, and the Truman/McArthur situation | 101 |
| 48 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1951 | Mental Hygienists Relationships Study | Zander, Alvin, and W. Hymovitch | To describe the nature of the existing relationships among psychiatrists, psychiatric social workers, and clinical psychologists; to examine causes for cooperation or lack thereof, among these mental hygiene workers. | 8 |
| 49 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1952 | Phoenix Project | Fisher, Charles | To determine attitudes towards citizen participation in solving social problems (atomic war and the colst of living), and to study some of the factors which affect these attitudes and the nature of the effect which they have | 115 |
| 50 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1952 | Human Relations Study of NIH | NA | Study of working conditions, individual and group interactions and organizational structure in a large Federally-funded institute | 205 |
| 51 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1952 | Survey of Consumer Finances | Katona, George | Survey of consumer buying expectations for durable goods; information on consumer debt, income, assets including stocks, bonds and real estate | 108 |
| 52 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1952 | National Election Study: Post-Election | Miller, Warren, and George Katona | Re-interviews with Respondents from the Pre-Election Study (P. 400), asking about views of the 1952 election results. Also includes questions on economic trends, price controls, savings bonds and inflation. | 607 |
| 53 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1952 | Study of Business Owners (from Survey of Consumer Finances) | NA | Edit of selected items from P. 42, 59, 86, 108 to provide more detailed information on business owners. No field work was involved. | 600 |
| 54 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1952 | J. E. Milholland Coding Project | Milholland, John | Coding of answers to math tests administered to high school students. Coders scored answers and entered results on coding sheets. | 800 |
| 55 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1952 | Public Attitudes Toward Business Conditions, Inflation and Savings | Katona, George, and John Lansing | Study of how consumers view inflation, their own financial situation, and that of the country as a whole, and how their economic outlook affects the extent to which they spend or save. | 601 |
| 56 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1952 | Pilot Study of Consumer Satisfaction | Dent, James K, and James Morgan. | Pilot/focus group methodological study on purchase decisions, and satisfaction with articles owned. Sample respondents were chosen by interviewers. | 606 |
| 57 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1952 | Blood Donor Survey | Withey, Stephen | Study to determine how people who responded to past appeals for blood wound respond to further appeals. Project sponsored by Civil Defense Agency. | 401 |
| 58 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1952 | National Election Study: Pre-Election | Campbell, Angus, and Warren Miller | Study of voting behavior; attitudes toward political parties, civil rights, and foreign policy. 2021 interviews. | 400 |
| 59 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1952 | Public Reactions to Civil Defense | Withey, Stephen | 3rd study to measure public attitudes towards civil defense programs, how world events affect public thinking about civil defense, and to measure attitudes of rural residents not included in previous studies | 136 |
| 60 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1953 | Survey of Consumer Finances | Katona, George | Opinions about wisest investment choices, life insurance premiums and coverage, common stock ownership and value, and rough estimate of net worth. Separate instruments for farm/non-farm households. | 608 |
| 61 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1953 | Survey of Physiological Sciences | Lieberman, Seymour | To assess the types of work physiologists do, and the conditions under which they do their work; to assess productivity of workers in the physical sciences | 215 |
| 62 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1953 | Navajo Project | Aberle, David | Coding of interviews taken with residents of three Najavo communities. Interviews administered in English and Navajo (translations provided). Topics included work/income; education; relationships with whites; kinship relations. | 810 |
| 63 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1953 | Detroit Area Study, 1953: Child Training Patterns Among Urban Families | Freedman, Ronald, and Theodore Newcomb | Two types of interviews used: "Mother Interview" asking mothers about activities of children in different phases of their growth; "Census Interview" collected data about social and economic charactestics normally asked for in Census interviews. | 802 |
| 64 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1953 | Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, Fall 1953 | Katona, George, and Eva Mueller | Consumer decisions on small and large purchases; attitudes towards personal and national economic affairs; attitudes toward work and values on and off the job. | 613 |
| 65 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1953 | Study of Adult Leadership | Withey, Stephen | Study objectives were to obtain a picture of Adult Leadership magazine readers ("leaders"), and to investigate the attitudes, information and skills of sample leaders to determine factors which make for effective leadership. | 404 |
| 66 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1953 | Michigan State College Disaster Study | Cannell, Charles, and Charles Loomis | Survey of residents who experienced a tornado. Cooperative research effort with MSC Social Research Service and National Opinion Research Center. | 805 |
| 67 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1954 | Civil Defense Study | Withey, Stephen | Fourth in a series of studies for the Federal Civil Defense Administration, studying publics attitudes about atomic warfare, atomic energy, and civil defense activities. | 408 |
| 68 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1954 | Labor Union Study | Tannenbaum, Arnold | Study of members of a local union to determine attitudes of workers toward union structure and staff; employee influence in union decisions | 216 |
| 69 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1954 | Kirkwood, Mo. Parish Project 2 | Lippitt, Ronald | In a self-administered questionnaire, young people were asked about the kinds of decisions they made . A follow-up personal interview was conducted to ask about the kinds of influences involved in making those decisions. | 46 |
| 70 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1954 | Polio Placebo Area Study | Voight, and Francis | Investigation into the health of children in counties which participated in the Salk vaccine experiment. Question asked about state of child's health; how well informed parents were about polio; health environment in the home. | 831 |
| 71 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1954 | Foreign Operations Administration | Fisher | Attitudes about the Korean War, international relations, proposed cuts in U.S. military budget, foreign aid, operning of trade between Japan and China. | 825 |
| 72 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1954 | Fall Interim Study | Katona, George | Consumer attitudes about personal and national economics; planned expenditures for durable goods; automobile ownership/second auto ownership. Additional questions on Congressional election. | 623 |
| 73 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1954 | Survey of Economic Attitudes and Behavior | Katona, George, and Eva Mueller | Attitudes toward personal and national economic events; purchasing durables; questions on income, umemployment, and savings bonds. | 620 |
| 74 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1954 | Study of Youth Leaders | Goffman | Related to P. 407, Study of Adolescent Boys. Study designed to explore the attitudes and activities of adults who work with boys, and some of the problems involved in youth work. | 407 |
| 75 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1954 | Economic Behavior and Attitudes: Phase II | Katona, George, and Eva Mueller | Reinterview of P. 620 respondents. The primary objective was to learn how consumers' motives, opinions, and expectations influence their willingness to make major expenditures and their desire to save. | 627 |
| 76 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1954 | Survey of Consumer Finances | Katona, George | This survey emphasized contractual payments such as mortgages, rent, property taxes, and installment debt. Respondents also asked about best place for savings, and 1953 income of persons in housing unit. | 612 |
| 77 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1954 | Detroit Area Study, 1954: Ideal Family Size in Detroit | Freedman, Ronald | Objective was to investigate contact, knowledge and attitudes of the public toward government agencies. Questions were asked about contact with six selected agencies representing local, state and federal levels. | 816 |
| 78 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1954 | Study of Adolescent Boys | Douvan, Elizabeth | Study of the attitudes, opinions and activities of a national sample of 14-16 year old boys. Areas included school/vocational attitudes, life with family, getting along with peers, memberships, interests and activities. | 407 |
| 79 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | National Association of Science Writers - Pilot | Withey, Stephen | Attitudes of the public about science news, and how it could be better presented by science writers. | 411 |
| 80 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Spring Interim Survey | Katona, George | Economic attitudes; attitudes toward life insurance and whether respondent has insurance; preferences for mode of travel, frequency of travel, and types of trips people take | 633 |
| 81 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Economic Behavior and Attitudes: Phase III | Katona, George | Reinterviews of P. 620 and P. 627. Primary objective was to learn what makes people change their minds about business conditions and their own financial prospects. | 631 |
| 82 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Employee Health Service | Dent, James K. | Attitudes of businessmen toward employee health services; amount of information businessmen have about these services; the channels of communication for business and health information in five cities | 234 |
| 83 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Civil Defense Study | Withey, Stephen | Survey of Oakland, California residents' reactions to air raid warnings. | 415 |
| 84 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Economic Behavior and Attitudes: Phase IV | Katona, George | Fourth wave (third reinterview of P. 620, 627, 631), with focus on respondent financial data; additional questions on installment debt, car purchases, and financial expectations for the future. | 642 |
| 85 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Gasoline Price Study | Lansing, John | Surveyof price expectations; reasons for price changes; attitudes about price controls, local/regional price differences. | 637 |
| 86 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Hope College Study on Unemployment Compensation | Lansing, John, and D. B. Yntema | Study of persons who received unemployment compensation during 1955. The intent was to provide information on the adequacy of unemployment compensation, and how payments are related to availability for work. | 638 |
| 87 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Motivation and Participation in a Voluntary Organization | Seashore, Stanley, and Seymour Lieberman | Study of how a volunteer organization (Oil Industry Information Committee) operates, the motivations of group members, and how attitudes and behavior are affected by group membership and supervision | 231 |
| 88 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Attitudes of Business Firms Toward Banks | Katona, George | Pilot study to learn how business firms make use of banks; how businesses allocate liquid funds among banks; satisfaction with banking services | 641 |
| 89 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Detroit Area Study, 1955: A Description of Urban Kinship Patterns and the Urban Family | Axelrod, Morris, and Robert Blood | Focus was on frequency and nature of contact with relatives; division of labor within the family, and family decision-making processes; expected family size. 260 interviews conducted by SRC staff, remainder by students. | 828 |
| 90 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Survey of Consumer Finances, 1955 | Katona, George | Emphasis on housing, previous and presnt ownership and value, satisfaction with home and space, expected duration of tenure; mortgage information, how family finances are handled and change in liquid assets. | 625 |
| 91 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Growth of American Families | Freedman, Ronald | Joint study with Scripps Foundation to learn about expected family size, use of birth control measures, the attitudes about ideal family size, and the extent to which family economic expectations are related to expectations about family size. | 827 |
| 92 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Social Long Distance Telephone Calls | Lansing, John | To determine how Michigan Bell subscribers decide on whether to make long distance calls; to attempt to learn how and why these decisions are made, and in what contexts. | 643 |
| 93 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Michigan Study of UPS Personnel (includes P. 232-1 and P. 232-2) | Mann, Floyd, Stanley Seashore, Basil Georgopoulos, and Arnold Tannenbaum. | Study of supervisory and non-supervisory personnel working for United Parcel Service, to learn how this organization works, and what makes a company a good or bad place to work | 232 |
| 94 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1955 | Fall Interim Survey | Katona, George | Economic attitudes; attitudes toward life insurance and whether respondent has insurance; preferences for mode of travel, frequency of travel, and types of trips people take | 635 |
| 95 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1956 | Survey of Consumer Finances, 1956 | Lininger, Charles | This SCF concentrated on consumer debt: whether consumers were over-indebted; wwhether debt expansion of 1955 be followed by large-scale repayments; at what rate were consumers paying off debt. | 640 |
| 96 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1956 | Summer Omnibus | Katona, George | To measure consumer attitudes toward own and national economic situation; automobile buying intentions; attitudes about travel; attitudes toward payroll savings plans for purchase of savings bonds. | 649 |
| 97 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1956 | National Election Study: Post Election; Fall Omnibus Survey | Miller, Warren, George Katona, and Eva Mueller | One study including both post-election(N=1739) and economic affairs material(N=1444). Reinterview with subjects from P. 417. Some Rs were asked only election material, some only economic questions, and others were asked both. | 651 |
| 98 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1956 | Spring Interim (Omnibus) Survey | Katona, George | Economic attitudes and behavior; reasons for saving and investing in U.S. Savings Bonds; travel habits of Americans; attitudes towards the November elections. | 646 |
| 99 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1956 | National Election Study: Pre-Election | Campbell, Angus, Philip Converse, and Warren Miller | Attitudes and voting behavior of 1940 respondents. | 417 |
| 100 | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | sroadmin | 03/12/2025 01:29 PM | 1956 | Civil Defense Study | Withey, Stephen | Project for the Federal Civil Defense Administration asking how people feel about the possibility of war, the adequacy of U.S. civil defense preparedness, what is known about effects of atomic war and civil defense. | 418 |