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The General Social Surveys

📅 Published: August 20, 2021 👤 Tom Smith 📖 The Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice 📊 688 citations
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The National Data Program for the Social Sciences is a social indicators and data diffusion program. The GSS is widely used in teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Key Findings
  • 1 Both the General Social Survey (GSS) and the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) surveys have been efficiently collected, widely distributed, and extensively analyzed by social scientists around the world.
  • 2 The GSS is divided into five components: the replicating core, topical modules, cross-national modules, experiments, and reinterviews and follow-up studies.
  • 3 The GSS has spurred cross-national research by inspiring other nations to develop similar data collection programs.
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Source OpenAlex
Category ⚛️ Physics & Space Science
Published Aug 20, 2021
Journal The Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice
DOI 10.1002/9781119111931.ch11
Citations 688
Authors Tom Smith