Michigan Public Policy Survey Restricted Use Datasets

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To view the citation for the overall project, see http://doi.org/10.3886/E100148V11.

Folder Description

Summary: The Spring 2015 MPPS was the thirteenth wave in the MPPS survey program. The primary focus of the survey was on fiscal, budgetary and operational policies. Additional questions focused on retiree health care and income benefits and job approval assessments for the governor, state legislators, and state agencies. This survey ran from April 6 to June 8, 2015 and received responses from 72% of jurisdictions.

Scope of Folder

Subject Terms: retirement plans; health insurance; governors; government revenue; government performance; government spending; budgets; pension plans; government services; state legislatures; state government

Geographic Coverage: Michigan

Collection Date(s): 4/6/2015 – 6/8/2015 (Spring 2015)

Universe:

3,712 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; 41% by individual respondent

Sampling: The sample for the Spring 2015 MPPS included on average two officials from each of the local general purpose units of government (83 counties, 279 cities, 254 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 2015 dataset includes two separate weights—one for individual-level (ind_wgt) and

one for jurisdiction-level (juris_wgt) analyses—that should be used to account for nonresponse at

the individual and jurisdictional levels, respectively. The variable samp_juris can be used to

select cases according to whether analysis is being done at the individual-level or jurisdictionlevel.

Unit(s) of Observation: Jurisdiction, Individual

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