A Comparison of Alternative Models for Analyzing the Scalability of Response Patterns

A previous version of this chapter was presented at the 1979 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. The first author was supported in part by Grant SOC78-23759 from the Division of the Social Sciences of the National Science Foundation. The data used in this report were made available by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. The data for the Spring 1975 General Social Survey, National Data Program for the Social Sciences, were originally collected by James A. Davis (National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago) and distributed by Roper Public Opinion Research Center, Williams College. Neither the original collector of the data nor the consortium bear any responsibility for the analyses or interpretations presented here. For helpful comments, the writers are indebted to K. Crittenden, L. A. Goodman, 0. D. Duncan, S. E. Fienberg, N. W. Henry, S. Leinhardt, C. H. Proctor, S. A. Tuch, and two anonymous referees.