Correlates of Gun Ownership in Anchorage and the Mat-Su Borough

Group: University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center

URL: http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/27/2summer2010/d_gunownership.html

Description

This article is based on data from two residential surveys recently conducted by the Justice Center. The first is the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Community Survey (MSCS), which has been carried out annually since 2006. It is a mail and web-based survey of randomly-selected adult heads-of-household. Data from the 1,411 respondents to the 2009 survey are used in this analysis. The second data source is the Anchorage Community Survey (ACS) which has been conducted biannually since 2003. The ACS was conducted most recently over the winter of 2009–2010 and had 2,080 respondents. Like the MSCS, the sample is randomly-selected adult heads-of-household, and the methodology is a mixed-mode, mail and web design.

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guns, location, city level

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