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Michigan Public Policy Survey Public Use Datasets

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy

Version Title: View help for Version Title Spring 2009 - Fall 2016

Name	File Type	Size	Last Modified
Budget-and-Fiscal-Health-Data			09/20/2018 12:16:PM
Drinking-Water-Data			09/20/2018 12:27:PM
Property-Tax-Appeals-Data			09/20/2018 12:11:PM
State-Direction-and-Job-Performance-Evaluation-Data			09/20/2018 12:14:PM
System-of-Funding-Local-Government-Data			09/20/2018 12:19:PM

To view the citation for the overall project, see http://doi.org/10.3886/E100132V25.

Folder Description

Summary: The Spring 2016 MPPS wave focused on fiscal, budgetary and operational issues. Additional questions focused on Michigan’s system of funding local government, drinking water provision and infrastructure, property tax appeals, and job approval assessments for the governor and state legislators.

Scope of Folder

Subject Terms: local government; budgets; fiscal health; water utilities; taxes; property taxes; state government

Geographic Coverage: Michigan

Collection Date(s): 4/4/2016 – 6/6/2016 (Spring 2016)

Data Type(s): survey data

Methodology

Response Rate: 74% by jurisdiction

Sampling: census survey of all 1,856 Michigan counties, cities, villages, and townships. Top elected and appointed officials in each jurisdiction were surveyed. One response from each responding jurisdiction is included. If two responses are received from the same jurisdiction, the criteria for inclusion in the data set are based on [in order]: completeness of the survey, if the official is appointed (rather than elected), or if the respondent is the top elected official.

Data Source: Michigan Public Policy Survey

Collection Mode(s): mail questionnaire; web-based survey

Unit(s) of Observation: local government jurisdictions

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