Gallup public-opinion data on civil-rights salience are scattered and inconsistently coded across surveys

Evidence

Notes: Gallup polls 1950-1979. This item has at least four limitations to note. First, it is not asked on a regular schedule. The question is fielded six times in 1962 but only once in the key year of 1963. Second, we are unable to produce analysis by race and region. In order to retain as many data points as possible, we graph the frequencies using the website Gallup Brain rather than reading in the data ourselves, which would mean losing those surveys without usable data on ipoll. Third, in some surveys Gallup allows individuals to provide more than one response to the most important problem question, which adds noise to our analysis. Finally, Gallup does not code the responses consistently from survey to survey. In some surveys the frequency responding “civil rights” is reported alone. In other surveys “civil rights” responses are grouped with, “racial problems, discrimination and states rights,” in other surveys with “integration,” and in still others with “demonstrations.” For each survey, we graph the frequency responding to the category that includes “civil rights,” so inconsistencies arise year-to-year. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1139

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Only one survey question spans the pre- and post-Civil-Rights eras — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1328

Broader Connections

• Only one survey question spans the pre- and post-Civil-Rights eras #exemplifies (0.85) — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1328