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Michigan Public Policy Survey Restricted 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 MPPS 2009-2015

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MPPS_2011_spring_data_OPENS-Redacted.xlsx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet	126.5 KB	05/01/2017 07:05:AM
s11restricted_codebook.pdf	application/pdf	5.2 MB	02/05/2013 03:03:AM
spring2011-restricted.csv	text/csv	632.3 KB	05/01/2017 07:05:AM
spring2011-restricted.dta	application/x-stata	490.8 KB	03/16/2017 05:08:AM
spring2011-restricted.sav	application/x-spss-sav	448.8 KB	03/16/2017 05:07:AM

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

Folder Description

Summary: The Spring 2011 MPPS wave focused on fiscal, budgetary and operational policies. Additional questions focused on property tax charge-backs from the county government, special tax authorities such as DDAs, job approval assessments for the governor and state legislators, the state's new emergency manager law, performance measurement activities, and the federal stimulus package (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act).

Scope of Folder

Subject Terms: labor union; public officials; governors; government revenue; local government; government expenditures; budgets; property taxes; taxes; government performance; federal stimulus; federal aid; ARRA

Geographic Coverage: Michigan

Collection Date(s): 4/18/2011 – 6/13/2011 (Spring 2011)

Universe:

3,483 top elected and top appointed officials from all 1,856 Michigan

counties, cities, villages, and townships

Data Type(s): survey data

Methodology

Response Rate: 69% by jurisdiction; 41% by individual respondent

Sampling:

The sample for the Spring 2011 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 2011 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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