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Michigan Public Policy Survey Restricted Use Datasets

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Version Title: View help for Version Title MPPS 2009-2015

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To view the citation for the overall project, see http://doi.org/10.3886/E100148V10.

Folder Description

Summary: The Spring 2012 MPPS wave focused on fiscal, budgetary and operational policies. Additional questions focused on job approval assessments for the governor and state legislators, the state's new emergency manager law, the system of funding local government, and issues related to K-12 schooling. This survey ran from April 9 to June 26, 2012 and receieved responses from 72% of jurisdictions.

Scope of Folder

Subject Terms: union membership; public officials; governors; government revenue; local government; government expenditures; employee benefits; state legislatures; state government; collective bargaining; government performance; union negotiations; furloughs; government operations; government spending; labor unions; budgets; taxes; government services; government employees

Geographic Coverage: Michigan

Time Period(s): 4/9/2012 – 6/26/2012 (Spring 2012)

Universe: 3,523 top elected and top appointed officials from all 1,856 Michigan counties, cities, villages, and townships

Data Type(s): survey data

Methodology

Response Rate: 72% by jurisdiction; 42% by individual respondent

Sampling:

The sample for the Spring 2012 MPPS included on average two officials from each of the local

general purpose units of government (83 counties, 277 cities, 256 villages, and 1,240 townships)

in the state of Michigan. The sample frame included, where the position existed and was not vacant, the top elected and top appointed official in each jurisdiction. For counties, this consisted

of county administrators and board chairs; for cities, mayors and city managers; for villages, village presidents and managers. Townships are a special case, in that, typically, their governing officials are all elected. Therefore, in townships, both the elected supervisors and the elected

clerks were administered surveys, as well as the few appointed township managers.

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

Weights:

The Spring 2012 dataset includes two separate weights—one for individual-level and one for jurisdiction-level analyses—that should be used to account for nonresponse at the individual and

jurisdictional levels.

Unit(s) of Observation: Jurisdiction, Individual

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