Jewish Values Survey 2012

DOI

10.17605/OSF.IO/8QTDR

Citation

Jones, R. P., & Cox, D. (2020, May 3). Jewish Values Survey 2012.

Summary

The Jewish Values Survey examined the values, issues and political preferences of Jewish Americans. The survey included questions that explored views about religion and Jewish culture and traditions. The survey featured items to gauge views about foreign policy, Iran and Israel. The survey also covered voting behavior, economic inequality, immigration and social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage.

Data File

Cases: 1,004
Variables: 273
Weight Variable: WEIGHT

The final weighting involved conforming (often called "raking") the entire sample to overall population parameters derived from aggregated General Social Surveys (2000-2010) and the Pew Research Center's Religious Landscape Survey. The data was raked, by form, to match population parameters for sex, age, race, education, region, metro status, household size and denomination. As a final step, extreme weights were trimmed to ensure that no respondent has too large an influence on overall results.

The sample raking was accomplished using Sample Balancing, a special iterative sample weighting program that simultaneously balances the distributions of all variables using a statistical technique called the Deming Algorithm. The use of these weights in statistical analysis ensures that the demographic characteristics of the sample closely approximate the demographic characteristics of the target population.

Data Collection

Date Collected: Feb. 23-March 5, 2012

Original Survey (Instrument)

Jewish Values Survey 2012

Funded By

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Collection Procedures

The 2012 Jewish Values Survey was conducted by Public Religion Research Institute among a random sample of 1,004 self-identified Jewish adults (ages 18 and older) who are part of the Knowledge Networks' KnowledgePanel. Interviews were conducted online between February 23 and March 5, 2012.

Sampling Procedures

The population of Jewish Americans was determined by using two separate screening questions that were designed to identify the Core Jewish Population, a category with a long history in Jewish demography, consisting of self-identifying Jews by religion (JBR) and persons who consider themselves Jewish (e.g., ethnically or culturally) but who claim no religion (JNR). For more information: http://publicreligion.org/research/2012/04/jewish-values-in-2012/

Principal Investigators

Robert P. Jones and Daniel Cox

Related Publications

The following link contains a summary of the Public Religion Research Institute's findings of this survey: http://publicreligion.org/research/2012/04/jewish-values-in-2012/