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The University of Wisconsin Survey Center
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Core Questions
This is a list of the core questions from the UWSC's continuous National telephone survey, WISCON. Also included are questions that have been asked since the beginning of the project, March 1988, as well as the respondent selection questions and the informed consent/confidentiality statement used. The content includes questions on:
- Interest in civic affairs
- Following politics in the media
- Talking with others about politics
- Economic expectations
- Fairness of various taxes
- Performance of governmental bodies
- Depression scale
- Listening to religious broadcasts
List of Core Questions
- Household composition
- size
- number of children
- age of oldest child
- age of youngest child
- other relatives
- non-relatives
- Age
- Race/Ethnicity
- Education (using 1990 Census format)
- Marital Status/Cohabitation Status
- Religious Preference
- Frequency of Church Attendance
- Importance of Religion
- Income of Respondent
- Income of Spouse or partner
- Income of other household adults
- Employment status
- hours worked
- last week
- usually
- unemployment
- number of weeks looking
- occupation
- class of worker
- unemployment last year
- number of weeks
- Employment status of spouse/partner
- hours worked
- last week
- usually
- Political Party Preference
- Liberalism/Conservatism Scale