Social Forum Surveys Data

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The University of California-Riverside Research Working Group on Transnational Social Movements has carried out four paper surveys of attendees at Social Forum meetings:

            The World Social Forum meeting in Porto Alegre Brazil in January of 2005

            The World Social Forum meeting in Nairobi, Kenya in January of 2007, and

            The U.S. Social Forum meeting in Atlanta, Georgia in July of 2007.

            The U.S. Social Forum meeting in Detroit, Michigan in July of 2010.

The Survey questions that were used in each of these were broadly similar, but there were also differences. Each of the survey forms is available on the UCR Research Working Group project website at http://www.irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy.htm

The project website also includes information about the publications that have come from our project.

For now we want to allow use of these data on a case-by-case basis. If you would like to use the survey data for purposes of answering research questions please contact Chris Chase-Dunn chriscd@ucr.edu and  Ellen Reese ellen.reese@ucr.edu. State what you want the questions are that you are investigating.

We request that those who use the data for research publications please cite the source as follows:

 

University of California-Riverside Research Working Group on Transnational Social Movements. Social Forum Surveys. http://www.irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy.htm

 

The survey data and code books for each of the surveys are linked below.  The data are contained in SPSS system files (.sav), STATA files (.dta) and Excel files (.xls). The codebooks are Microsoft Word files.

 

World Social Forum Porto Alegre 2005 Survey Data

            http://irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy/data/wsf2005.sav

Codebook for WSF05 http://irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy/data/wsf2005codebook.doc

 

World Social Forum Nairobi 2007 Survey Data http://irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy/data/wsf2007.sav

World Social Forum Nairobi 2007 Survey Data http://irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy/data/wsf2007.xls

Codebook for WSF07 http://irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy/data/wsf2007codebook.doc

 

United States Social Forum Atlanta 2007 Survey Data (SPSS)

            http://irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy/data/ussf2007.sav

United States Social Forum 2007 Atlanta Survey Data (STATA)

            http://irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy/data/ussf2007.dta

Codebook for USSF 2007 Atlanta http://irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy/data/ussf2007codebook.doc

 

United States Social Forum 2010 Survey Data (STATA) http://irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy/data/ussf2010.dta

Codebook for USSF 2010 http://irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy/data/ussf2010codebook.doc

 

An SPSS File that contains Results for Comparable Questions from Porto Alegre 2005, Nairobi 2007 and Atlanta 2007 http://irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy/data/3surveys.sav

 

A README file with information about some recoded variables in the Porto Alegre 2005 and Nairobi 2007 data files http://irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy/data/readme.doc

 

All Four Surveys Combined. For purposes of examining small groups of attendees it can be helpful to combine the results of all four surveys. This was done in our study of indigeneity:

#87 Global Indigenism and the Web of Transnational Social Movements

 C. Chase-Dunn, James Fenelon, Thomas D. Hall,  Ian Breckenridge-Jackson and Joel Herrera

 

A README file explains how some variables were recoded for the combined spss file: http://irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy/data/allfour/all4README.htm

SPSS file with all four surveys:        4surveys_alpha.3.sav