Assessing public opinion toward homelessness in the United States

This study examines the relationship between a variety of demographic characteristics and an individual's feelings and helping behavior towards the homeless population. This study also distinguishes between the way urban residents feel and act towards the problem of homelessness with the way that rural residents feel and act towards the problem of homelessness. Respondents were identified as urban or rural by using the nine party county codification scheme of rural-urban continuum codes from the United States Department of Agriculture. This study is a secondary data analysis of the 2002 General Social Survey (GSS), which has a sample size of 3,000 non-institutionalized English speaking adults. Bivariate logistic regression and multivariate logistic regression were used to analyze the data.

Name thesis:degree_name

MA

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology and Anthropology

Year dc:date.available

2007

Author dc:creator

• Dugan, Joni Mari

Contributors dc:contributor

• James J. Nolan, III.
• Susan Pearce
• Mohamed Alkadry

• Public policy

Identifier

https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/826

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:researchrepository.wvu.edu:etd-1829