myers_2024_welfare_stereotypes

56,655 rated or chosen profiles from 1,893 respondents, in up to 30 tasks of 1 profile varying on 7 attributes.

About this table

Description1,893 US Lucid respondents (January 2021) rated up to 30 single profiles of a hypothetical person (race, gender, marital status, number of children, immigration status, employment status, criminal record) on how typical the person is of welfare recipients, 0-10, under one of two instruction versions. The article analyses the 1,293 non-Hispanic white respondents.
ReferenceMyers, C. D., Zhirkov, K., & Lunz Trujillo, K. (2024). Who is "on welfare"? Validating the use of conjoint experiments to measure stereotype content. Political Behavior, 46, 89-110.
DOI10.1007/s11109-022-09815-0
LicenceCC0 1.0
Source datahttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6ECD1D

Notes

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Size and shape

Respondents1,893
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)56,655
Tasks per respondent (most)30
Profiles per task1
Attributes7

Design

Topictax welfare economy
A profile representsperson
CountryUS
Language shownen
Language of stored levelsen
Task orderrecorded in the deposit
Profile positionrecorded in the deposit

Outcomes:

ratingHow typical is the person described in the profile of welfare recipients? (paraphrase) [rating, 0 (unknown) to 10 (unknown)]

Columns

attr_childrenattr_criminal_recordattr_employmentattr_genderattr_immigrationattr_maritalattr_racecov_agecov_educationcov_gendercov_hispaniccov_incomecov_party_id7cov_raceidprofileratingtasktrial_instruction_code

The layout (one row per respondent, task and profile; choice/rating outcomes; attr_ columns holding each attribute level as displayed) is defined in the IRW conjoint standard. What the outcomes asked is under Design above.

Get the data

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Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("myers_2024_welfare_stereotypes", source = "conj")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("myers_2024_welfare_stereotypes", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Myers_2022, title={Who Is “On Welfare”? Validating the Use of Conjoint Experiments to Measure Stereotype Content}, volume={46}, ISSN={1573-6687}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11109-022-09815-0}, DOI={10.1007/s11109-022-09815-0}, number={1}, journal={Political Behavior}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Myers, C. Daniel and Zhirkov, Kirill and Lunz Trujillo, Kristin}, year={2022}, month=Aug, pages={89–110} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv584
Redivis datasetirw_conjoint v4.2
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/qkye-q530
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv4.2
Metadata sourceirw_meta v44.0