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Appendix A: Alternative Taxonomies of Social Capital
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From page 137... ... 2. Putnam who seeks to identify key dimensions of community and organizational life, engagement in public affairs, community volunteerism, informal sociability, and social trust in the United States. Read the entire page →
From page 138... ... 138 APPENDIX A social capital and to demonstrate how and how much it affects development outcomes." Horizontal Associations • number and type of associations or local institutions • extent of membership in local associations • extent of participatory decision making • extent of kin homogeneity within the association • extent of income and occupation homogeneity within the association • extent of trust in village members and households • extent of trust in government • extent of trust in trade unions • perception of extent of community organization • reliance on networks of support • percentage of household income from remittances • percentage of household expenditure for gifts and transfers Civil and Political Society • index of civil liberties • percentage of population facing political discrimination • index of intensity of political discrimination • percentage of population facing economic discrimination • index of intensity of economic discrimination • percentage of population involved in separatist movement • Gastil's index of political rights • Freedom House index of political freedoms • index of democracy • index of corruption • index of government inefficiency • strength of democratic institutions • measure of "human liberty" • measure of political stability • degree of decentralization of government • voter turnout • political assassinations • constitutional government changes • coups Read the entire page →
From page 139... ... . The numbers in parentheses indicate the item's coefficient of correlation with the final constructed measure across the individual states of the United States. Read the entire page →
From page 140... ... • percentage of individuals who agree that "most people are honest" (0.84) SOCIAL CAPITAL COMMUNITY BENCHMARK SURVEY Putnam's categories and indicators are similar to the domains and dimensions developed by the Saguaro Seminar for the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, which was the first major comprehensive survey related to social capital in the United States. Read the entire page →
From page 141... ... Equality of Civic Engagement Across the Community This is a constructed measure across race, income, and education levels. LONGITUDINAL SURVEY OF IMMIGRANTS TO CANADA Family and Relatives • having relatives in Canada upon landing: 1 if longitudinal respon dent (LR) Read the entire page →
From page 142... ... : − : no friends or having not seen or talked to friends since 0 arriving − etween 0 and 1: seeing or talking to friends in varied fre b quencies; the higher the index is, the more frequently LR contacts with friends − : seeing or talking to friends every day 1 Group and Organizational Network • number of organizations participated in: number of organizations or groups LR participated in, ranging from 0 to 13 • ethnic diversity of organizational network: ethnic diversity of organizational network (0~1) : − : not participated in any organization or all the members of 0 all organizations belong to the same ethnic or cultural groups as LR − etween 0 and 1: some members of organizations belong b to the same ethnic or cultural groups as LR; the higher the index is, the more ethnically diversified is the organizational network − : none of the members of organizations belong to the same 1 ethnic or cultural groups as LR • frequency of activities with organizations: frequency of activities with organizations (0~1) Read the entire page →

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... 2. Putnam who seeks to identify key dimensions of community and organizational life, engagement in public affairs, community volunteerism, informal sociability, and social trust in the United States.

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... 138 APPENDIX A social capital and to demonstrate how and how much it affects development outcomes." Horizontal Associations • number and type of associations or local institutions • extent of membership in local associations • extent of participatory decision making • extent of kin homogeneity within the association • extent of income and occupation homogeneity within the association • extent of trust in village members and households • extent of trust in government • extent of trust in trade unions • perception of extent of community organization • reliance on networks of support • percentage of household income from remittances • percentage of household expenditure for gifts and transfers Civil and Political Society • index of civil liberties • percentage of population facing political discrimination • index of intensity of political discrimination • percentage of population facing economic discrimination • index of intensity of economic discrimination • percentage of population involved in separatist movement • Gastil's index of political rights • Freedom House index of political freedoms • index of democracy • index of corruption • index of government inefficiency • strength of democratic institutions • measure of "human liberty" • measure of political stability • degree of decentralization of government • voter turnout • political assassinations • constitutional government changes • coups

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... . The numbers in parentheses indicate the item's coefficient of correlation with the final constructed measure across the individual states of the United States.

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... • percentage of individuals who agree that "most people are honest" (0.84) SOCIAL CAPITAL COMMUNITY BENCHMARK SURVEY Putnam's categories and indicators are similar to the domains and dimensions developed by the Saguaro Seminar for the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, which was the first major comprehensive survey related to social capital in the United States.

Read the entire page →

From page 141...

... Equality of Civic Engagement Across the Community This is a constructed measure across race, income, and education levels. LONGITUDINAL SURVEY OF IMMIGRANTS TO CANADA Family and Relatives • having relatives in Canada upon landing: 1 if longitudinal respon dent (LR)

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... : − : no friends or having not seen or talked to friends since 0 arriving − etween 0 and 1: seeing or talking to friends in varied fre b quencies; the higher the index is, the more frequently LR contacts with friends − : seeing or talking to friends every day 1 Group and Organizational Network • number of organizations participated in: number of organizations or groups LR participated in, ranging from 0 to 13 • ethnic diversity of organizational network: ethnic diversity of organizational network (0~1) : − : not participated in any organization or all the members of 0 all organizations belong to the same ethnic or cultural groups as LR − etween 0 and 1: some members of organizations belong b to the same ethnic or cultural groups as LR; the higher the index is, the more ethnically diversified is the organizational network − : none of the members of organizations belong to the same 1 ethnic or cultural groups as LR • frequency of activities with organizations: frequency of activities with organizations (0~1)

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Appendix A: Alternative Taxonomies of Social Capital Pages 137-142

Appendix A: Alternative Taxonomies of Social Capital
Pages 137-142