Data from Survey on American Civic Engagement Publicly Released

CDACS Announcement: Data from Survey on American Civic Engagement Publicly Released

The data from the U.S. "Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy" (CID) survey, conducted in the spring/summer of 2005, are now publicly available. The survey presents an unusually broad and deep picture of American civic engagement in comparative perspective. Among other themes, it includes a comprehensive set of questions on the composition and diversity of informal social networks, involvement in voluntary associations, democratic values, and tolerance. A subset of the survey was replicated from the European Social Survey (ESS), thus allowing for comparisons between the U.S. and 22 European countries.

The U.S. CID survey was directed by Marc Morjé Howard (Georgetown University), with the assistance of associate directors James L. Gibson (Washington University in St. Louis) and Dietlind Stolle (McGill University).

For more information on the survey, including instructions for downloading the data, see www.uscidsurvey.org. For more on the Center for Democracy and Civil Society (CDACS) at Georgetown University, see http://cdacs.georgetown.edu CDACS is also pleased to announce the inauguration of its Occasional Papers series. The first Occasional Paper, “Citizenship Norms and Political Participation in America: The Good News Is ... the Bad News Is Wrong,” by Professor Russell J. Dalton (UC Irvine), is available at http://cdacs.georgetown.edu/occasionalpapers.htm.