kellstedt_2017_competence

10,252 responses from 1,075 respondents to 10 items.

One of 13 tables from the same source; this one measures Perceived institutional competence on climate change. The others are listed under Related tables.

About this table

DescriptionPerceived competence of ten institutions on climate change (EPA, NOAA, IPCC, auto industry, USGS, university scientists, local/state/federal officials, non-profits, environmental groups), 0 not at all - 10 completely competent; 2004 US national telephone survey, N = 1,093 adults; cov_gender, cov_age, cov_education, cov_ideology, cov_income.
ReferenceKellstedt, P. M., Ramirez, M. D., Vedlitz, A., & Zahran, S. (2019). Does political sophistication minimize value conflict? Evidence from a heteroskedastic graded IRT model of opinions toward climate change. British Journal of Political Science, 49(4), 1309-1332. Replication data: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SRC9HN
DOI10.1017/S0007123416000600
LicenceCC0 1.0
Source datahttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SRC9HN

Size and shape

Responses10,252
Respondents1,075
Items10
Response categories11
Responses per respondent9.537
Responses per item1025.200
Density0.954
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

age rangeAdult (18+)
sampleGeneral/non-specific
construct typeOpinion/attitude
measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)eng
construct namePerceived institutional competence on climate change

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, kellstedt_2017_climate_survey.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

ColumnWhat it isSource column
IRW standard columns
idIRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).resp_num
itemIRW standard Item identifier.made in the build script
respIRW standard Response value.made in the build script
Respondent covariates
cov_ageCovariate q117
cov_educationCovariate q116
cov_genderCovariate gender
cov_ideologyCovariate q118
cov_incomeCovariate q122

What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.

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# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("kellstedt_2017_competence")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("kellstedt_2017_competence")

How to cite

@article{V_ssing_2017, title={Information Behavior and Political Preferences}, volume={49}, ISSN={1469-2112}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007123416000600}, DOI={10.1017/s0007123416000600}, number={2}, journal={British Journal of Political Science}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Vössing, Konstantin and Weber, Till}, year={2017}, month=Mar, pages={533–556} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv584
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_7 v1.1
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/7pd3-sh31
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv1.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v44.0