Entry:

Dancer, L. Suzanne, "Stability of the Structure of Attitudes Toward Abortion from 1977 to 1985: A Partial Order Structuple Analysis," Paper presented at the Second International Facet Theory Conference, Guildford, U.K., 1989.


Abstract:

From 1977-85, attitudes toward abortion had a stable radex structure. Yet evidence suggests several orders with systematic relationships exist within the scale and thus a single scale score doesn't accurately represent all the dimensions of abortion attitudes.

GSS Years:

1977-8, 1980, 1982-5

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
ABDEFECT

STRONG CHANCE OF SERIOUS DEFECT

ABNOMORE

MARRIED--WANTS NO MORE CHILDREN

ABHLTH

WOMANS HEALTH SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED

ABPOOR

LOW INCOME--CANT AFFORD MORE CHILDREN

ABRAPE

PREGNANT AS RESULT OF RAPE

ABSINGLE

NOT MARRIED

ABANY

ABORTION IF WOMAN WANTS FOR ANY REASON