SRP Year
2009-2010
Principal Investigator(s)
Study Description
The purpose of the survey was to gauge public opinion regarding how the family is conceptualized. Many of the same questions were asked as had been asked in SRP2003 and 2006 but some were dropped and several new questions were also added. Data were collected on a range of topics including: definitions of family, rights and benefits of family, when and whether a family can stop being a family, post-secondary education, the relative importance of genetic, parental, and other factors in the development of traits, feminist self-identification, attitudes about gay and lesbian relationships, as well as such sociodemographic characteristics as education, age, gender, race, religion, and marital status.
Research Team
Cher Jamison
Oren Pizmony-Levy
Kristin Jordan
Tim O'Brien
Jill Waity
Lisa Warner
Long Doan
Sarah Hatteberg
Annalise Loehr
Emily Meanwell
Lisa Miller
Jamie Oslawski-Lopez
Jane Schlapkohl
Kristina Simacek
Nik Summers
Jackie Tabor
Tom VanHeuvelen
Emily Wurgler
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Justin Aguirre
Ryan Bell
Jennifer Cooke
Caroline Emoff
Nick Farid
Kimberly Fick
Alex Fraga
Mike Hoff
Kyle Inskeep
Laura Jones
Savreen Kaur
Savita Kharbas
Kara Lillwitz
David Lota
Matt Morris
Julia Napolitano
Lauren O'Neill
John Pelczar
Kelsey Shea
Audrey Stork
Erik Thorelli
David Tite
Stacie Van Dyke
Sarah Wells
Sean Yancey
This study was conducted with support from the staff at the Center for Survey Research at Indiana University and used the Center's centralized telephone interviewing facility located on the Bloomington campus. CSR interviewers assisted in data collection.
Sources of Support
This study is supported by funding from the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University-Bloomington.