Religion, Values, and Immigration Reform Survey - Arkansas Sample

DOI

10.17605/OSF.IO/QZHMC

Citation

Jones, R. P., & Cox, D. (2020, December 19). Religion, Values, and Immigration Reform Survey - Arkansas Sample.

Summary

The Religion, Values, and Immigration Reform Survey addressed respondents' views on immigration reform in America. The survey gauged views on the immigration system, levels of support for immigration reform policies, and perceptions of immigrants' influence on the economy and the job market. Additional questions focused on attitudes toward both illegal and legal immigrants, the moral implications of immigration, and Congress' ability to handle immigration reform during the economic downturn.

The ARDA has added six additional variables to the original data set to enhance the users' experience on our site.

Data File

Cases: 402
Variables: 65
Weight Variable: WEIGHT

Data Collection

March 5-11, 2010

Original Survey (Instrument)

Religion Values, and Immigration Reform Survey

Funded By

The Ford Foundation

Collection Procedures

Telephone interviews were conducted in English only under the direction of Opinion Research Corporation. Those interviewed were selected by random digit dial (RDD) process. The survey included three independent representative samples of the general public: national (n=1,201), Ohio (n=402), and Arkansas (n=402). The national and state surveys were conducted from March 5-11, 2010. The randomly sampled telephone numbers were subject to up to six different call attempts.

Sampling Procedures

The sample was derived by an unrestricted random-digit dial procedure, which minimizes serial bias and includes both listed and unlisted telephone numbers. Only one interview is conducted within an individual household. The sample is fully replicated and stratified by region to increase its representativeness.

Principal Investigators

Robert P. Jones and Daniel Cox

Related Publications

A summary of the Public Religion Research Institute's findings from this survey can be found here.

Notes on Weighted Data

Sample demographics were balanced by form to match target population parameters for gender, age, education, race and Hispanic ethnicity for each sample. The national sample was also balanced by census region. Weighting parameters were derived from an analysis of data from the November 2008 Current Population Survey (CPS).

Weighting was accomplished using Sample Balancing, a special iterative sample weighting program that simultaneously balances the distributions of all variables. Weights were trimmed to prevent individual interviews from having too much influence on the final results. The use of these weights in statistical analysis ensures that the demographic characteristics of the sample closely approximate the demographic characteristics of the target populations.