
Metropolitan Atlanta Jewish Population Study, 1984
Sponsor(s): Atlanta Jewish Federation, Atlanta Jewish Federation Endowment Fund, Harriet Zimmerman Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta
Principal Investigator(s): Jay Weinstein
Study Dates: July, 1983-November, 1984
In 1945, 9,600 Jewish persons lived in the City of Atlanta, and the five surrounding counties of Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett and Clayton: 1.5% of all people in the area. In 1984, Jews represented 3.2% of the five county population.
In 1945, virtually the entire Jewish population lived in the Atlanta City limits, while in 1984, over 70% of the Jewish community lived outside the City of Atlanta limits.
Survey methodology, estimation and weighting procedures are described in detail at the end of the Main Report.
Three sampling strata were used: Stratum I was a 1/20 random sample with a systematic start of all households on a combined Jewish organizational list; Stratum II: a random sample of households on a snowball sample based on responses to the Stratum I surveys; Stratum III: a random digit dialed telephone survey of phone numbers not on the Jewish organization list. Report provides details on number of calls, etc.
First, the data file is extremely dirty, with almost every variable having incorrect punches which are not correctable at this time, and would need to be placed into missing data.
Second, many variables remain unlabeled, and many data entries in other variables appear to be totally inappropriate.
Third, the data file available to the Data Bank since 1996 contains only 477 cases, while written materials indicate that there should be 579 interviews in the file.
Finally, the Main Report methodology summary is sufficiently detailed to provide researchers with sufficient information to evaluate the surveys quality, and to provide needed data. It is unlikely that reanalysis of the 1984 data file currently available will add anything of use to the reported data.
Upon special request, the 1984 Atlanta data file (and the frequencies) are available to registered Data Bank members. Extreme caution should be used with this data set: the data file totals do not match those found in the published report, and there is no "weight" variable in the data file.
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