The Computer Administered Panel Study (CAPS) collected demographic, personality, attitudinal, and other social psychological data from annual samples of University of North Carolina undergraduates from 1983 through 1988. Respondents spent 60 to 90 minutes per week for 20 weeks during the academic year answering questions via computer terminals. In their comparison of demographic and academic variables, researchers found few significant differences between respondents and the general undergraduate population. This dataset contains the Religious Fundamentalism Scale, which measures religious fundamentalism among Christians- a construct similar to 'orthodoxy' as conceived by some other researchers. As of October 2003, information about the full survey could be found at http://www.irss.unc.edu/irss/shortcourses/wigginshandouts/capshandout0800.pdf
Additional modules are available for free download through the Odum Institute's electronic archive, http://www.irss.unc.edu/data_archive/home.asp
- Data File
- Cases: 96
Variables: 30
Weight Variable: None - Data Collection
- Date Collected: 1986
- Funded By
- The Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
- Collection Procedures
- Each year of the study, a random sample of registered University of North
Carolina undergraduates was invited to attend an orientation session about the
project. From those who attended and signed up to participate, 96 (half males
and half females) were chosen on the basis of scheduling compatibility. Each
week for 20 weeks, respondents spent 60 to 90 minutes during the academic year
answering questions via computer terminals. Respondents were paid a base rate
of $4 to $5 per completed weekly session and an average of $2 per session more
in rewards and bonuses, including a chance at a substantial end-of-year bonus
designed to keep subject attrition low. Data presented here was taken from 1986,
1987, and 1988. This information about the survey was taken from the Odum
Institute's summary of the CAPS program, which can be found at:
http://www.irss.unc.edu/irss/shortcourses/wigginshandouts/capshandout0800.pdf. - Principal Investigators
- The Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
- Related Publications
- J. Martin, and F. Westie. 1959. The Tolerant Personality. American Sociological Review . 24:521-528.
- Notes
- When citing this study, the following information should be included:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
(insert study date(s)) Computer Assisted Panel Study (CAPS)
[Computer file]. Chapel Hill: Institute for Research in Social Science
[producer]. Module (insert name of specific CAPS module(s) here). - For SID
- Because the subject's ID is derived from the CAPS year and a sequential number,
respondents can be tracked for an entire year's worth of experiments. Datasets
can also be merged using the respondent's ID. The original SID, as we received
it from the primary investigator, had an underscore between the year and the ID
number. The underscore was deleted to make the variable numeric, but the SID
was not changed in any other way.
FOR BIBLE, DIVINE, RETURN, CRIME, and ETRNL
Scoring for these variables is 'positive' for scoring purposes.
FOR HEAVEN, MORTAL, STORIES, and DEATH
Scoring for these variables is 'negative.' Suggested scoring procedure: +2, +1, 0, -1, -2. Items to be transformed:
1 will be equal to -2
2 will be equal to -1
3 will be equal to 0
4 will be equal to +1
5 will be equal to +2
This information about the survey was taken from the Odum
Institute's summary of the CAPS program, which can be found at:
http://www.irss.unc.edu/irss/shortcourses/wigginshandouts/capshandout0800.pdf
