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There was a query on this list sometime last year about  the National
Organizations Survey.  The survey was released to the public in September
and will be distributed by ICPSR.  In the meantime, you can get the data
and codebook via ftp.

The attached document briefly describes the survey and give instructions
for obtaining these data.

Best,
Jim
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Jim Cassell                                        Jim_Cassell@UNC.EDU
Institute for Research in Social Science           Phone:  919-962-0782
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill           Fax:    919-962-4777
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3355   USA

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               THE 1991 NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS SURVEY

The 1991 National Organizations Survey (NOS) is the first
representative sample of U.S. work establishments, physical sites
where paid employment occurs. Principal investigators were Arne L.
Kalleberg (University of North Carolina), David Knoke (University
of Minnesota), Peter V. Marsden (Harvard University) and Joe L.
Spaeth (University of Illinois). It was sponsored by a grant from
the National Science Foundation (SES-9022192, "Collaborative
Research: U.S. Organizations' Human Resources Policies"), with a
subcontract from the Employment and Training Administration of the
U.S. Department of Labor for the analysis of job training. The main
data collection was carried out by the Survey Research Laboratory
at the University of Illinois at Champaign during the director of
Joe L. Spaeth and Diane O'Rourke (SRL Project 666). Additional
aggregate-level data were compiled from secondary sources at the
University of North Carolina by Mark Van Buren and Arne L.
Kalleberg. Preparation of the 1991 NOS for distribution was done at
the University of Minnesota by Alisa Potter and David Knoke. These
data were released to the public on September 1, 1993, to be
distributed by the inter-university Consortium for Political and
Social Research.

The NOS consists of data on 727 employers of the respondents, and
their spouses in the 1991 General Social Survey, an annual
cross-sectional sample of the adult population. The NOS
concentrated on the establishments' human resources policies and
practices. Items asked about current staffing procedures, internal
job ladders and promotion chains, job training programs, and
employee benefits and incentives. Additional items gathered basic
information about each organization's formal structures, social
demography, environmental situation, and productivity and
performance. Four other data sets were merged with the organization
survey: (1) all variables from the corresponding GSS respondents,
including more than 50 job-related questions; (2) industry-level
variables at the two-digit SIC code level; and (3) county-level and
(4) zipcode-level information about the social and economic setting
within which each establishment is located. The 1991 NOS thus
offers numerous opportunities for researchers to test explanations
of organizational structures and impacts on employees, with a
representative sample having high generalizability.

An appropriate citation for users of the NOS is:

Kalleberg, Arne L., David Knoke, Peter V. Marsden and Joe L.
   Spaeth. The 1991 National Organization Survey [machine readable
   data file]. University of Minnesota [producer] 1992.
   Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
   (ICPSR) [distributor] 1993.

                        ACCESSING THE 1991 NOS

The 1991 National Organization Study (NOS) is available to the:
public on September 1, 1993. It will be distributed by the
Interuniversity Consortiurn for Political & Social Research (ICPSR)
at the University of Michigan. This dataset,consists of: (1) an
SPSS-X (mainframe) export file with all variables from the NOS
interviews of organizational informants, the corresponding 1991
General Social Survey respondents, and two-digit industry data; and
(2) a WordPerfect 5.1 codebook describing the variables and data
collection procedures. However, to protect the confidentiality of
the GSS respondents, the county-level and zipcode-level variables
will be released to the public only by special written permission
from ICPSR.

Until ICPSR is able to distribute these materials, starting on
September 1 the restricted version of NOS can be accessed directly
via Internet. Users can obtain their own copies of two files: (1)
MAINDAT8.EXE, which contains both a mainframe-SPSS export file
(MAINDAT8.EXP) and an ascii-version of the codebook (CODEBOOK.ASC);
and (2) README.TXT, a short description of how to re-create the
SPSS-X system file on your own university's mainframe computer. To
obtain these two files, use anonymous ftp from ftp.socsci.umn.edu.
Follow the steps below:


1) Ftp to ftp.socsci.umn.edu. Login as "anonymous" (don't type the
quote characters) and enter your full e-mail address for a password.

2) Change directory to /outgoing/knoke with the command
"cd/outgoing/knoke".

3) Transfer the text file README.TXT with the command "GET
README.TXT".

4) Change to binary mode with the command "binary".

5) Transfer the compressed self-extracting file MAINDAT8.EXE with
the command

 "GET MAINDAT8.EXE".

6) Quit ftp with the command "quit".

7) Follow the instructions in README.TXT to extract and uncompress
the SPSS export file and the codebook.

Alert Prof. David Knoke at the University of Minnesota Department
of Sociology to any problems via Internet:
"knokeOO1@staff.tc.umn.edu"