Voluntary Association Memberships of American Adults: Evidence from National Sample Surveys

The quality of metadata is a crucial determinant of usability/interpretability of data. This paper draws attention to the poor quality of India’s government statistics and the paucity of metadata necessary to understand the problems. The paper suggests that there has been a decline in India both in terms of the availability and quality of metadata for key government sources of information including maps, decennial population censuses and National Sample Surveys amidst growing sophistication in the understanding of metadata. The poor quality of metadata impairs cross-sectional as well as inter-temporal comparisons and policymaking apart from concealing biases and lapses of government statisticians. The paper draws on the experience of three states – erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur and Nagaland – where government statistics have been affected by serious errors that are not well-understood due to the lack of adequate metadata.

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The National Sample from the 1851 Census of Great Britain: Sampling and data handling procedures

Urban History ◽

10.1017/s0963926800002522 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 55-59 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Michael Anderson ◽

Brenda Collins ◽

Craig Stott

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Great Britain ◽

Household Head ◽

National Sample ◽

Household Composition ◽

Voluntary Association ◽

Marriage Patterns ◽

The Past ◽

Wide Range ◽

Age Of Marriage

Over the past two decades the enumerators' books of the nineteenth-century censuses have rightly become one of the major sources for the study of nineteenth-century social structure. Containing as they do, for the whole population of Great Britain, information on name, residence, marital status, relationship to household head, sex, age, occupation, birthplace and infirmity of sight or hearing, they have made possible a wide range of studies of, for example, patterns of residence, household composition, occupational structure, migration, age of marriage, patterns of education and farm labour utilization. Linked to other sources or bodies of material they have been used in studies of class consciousness, voting, voluntary association membership, property ownership and development, farming, poverty, the employment of married women and servant keeping, to name but a few.

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Needles in Haystacks: Studying "Rare" Populations by Secondary Analysis of National Sample Surveys

Public Opinion Quarterly ◽

10.1086/268248 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 39 (4) ◽

pp. 514 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

John Shelton Reed

Keyword(s):

Secondary Analysis ◽

National Sample ◽

Sample Surveys ◽

Rare Populations

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Voluntary Association Participation and Life Satisfaction: Replication, Revision, and Extension

The International Journal of Aging and Human Development ◽

10.2190/ymxj-hqa3-r32k-eu3u ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 127-137 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Neal E. Cutler

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Satisfaction With Life ◽

Voluntary Associations ◽

Secondary Analysis ◽

National Sample ◽

Voluntary Association ◽

Critical Importance ◽

Organizational Satisfaction ◽

Age Appropriate ◽

Overall Life Satisfaction

A secondary analysis of a national sample of American adults is used to examine the correlation between membership in voluntary associations and life satisfaction. It is hypothesized that the influence of membership on overall life satisfaction is indirect: Membership influences organizational satisfaction; in turn, organizational satisfaction influences satisfaction with life as a whole. The findings suggest that the hypothesized pattern of relationships is not ubiquitously present for all four of the older age categories studied. Such differences suggest the critical importance of utilizing age-appropriate rather than generic indicators when studying these issues.

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