Overview Description of Contents Categories by Alphabet Group Equivalence Category Type Comparison Statistics Affinities, Correlations Publications

Description of Contents Important Note:  We recommend viewing the site using Internet Explorer under Windows 2000 or WinXP. You may need to load Chinese True Type fonts onto your computer to view the Chinese characters contained in MS-Excel and HTML files.  Please consult your browser’s documentation for instructions on viewing pages with non-Western fonts. Web pages a. A brief overview of the research project b. Names and affiliations of research investigators c. Links to data files for 105 categories, organized by: i. Alphabet An alphabetical list of 105 categories, with links to data files (in HTML and MS-Excel formats) containing summary and frequency data ii. Group Equivalence · 7 separate worksheets are provided.  Each worksheet contains a list of 105 categories, sorted by degree of equivalence of responses, based on Hellinger Affinity (HA) and Jensen-Shannon (JS) scores, between two comparison groups.  · In each worksheet (with the exception of the last worksheet #7), the list of 105 categories is sorted by HA scores, from highest to lowest (i.e., from the most to least equivalent across comparison groups).  Each worksheet also contains links to data files (in HTML and MS-Excel formats) containing summary and frequency data for each category. · Worksheet #7 contains a list of 105 categories, with HA and JS scores summarized for each of the following comparison groups:  1) Young vs. Old American, 2) Young vs. Old Chinese, 3) Young American vs. Chinese, and 4) Old American vs. Chinese.  The 13 categories listed above the yellow line are judged to be relatively high in terms of equivalence across all culture by age groups.  Below the yellow line, the remaining 92 categories are listed alphabetically.  This worksheet also contains links to data files (in HTML and MS-Excel formats) containing summary and frequency data for each category iii. Category Type This page provides the list of 105 categories, sorted by 14 Category Types (and sorted alphabetically within Category Type), with links to data files (in HTML and MS-Excel formats) containing summary and frequency data for each category. Link to publications and instructions for citing the research manuscript, project web site, or data obtained from the web site. Data files (in HTML and MS-Excel formats) for each category includes the following worksheets: Category file description Worksheet #1 – summary and frequency data for Young American adults Worksheet #2 – summary and frequency data for Old American adults Worksheet #3 – summary and frequency data for Young Chinese adults Worksheet #4 – summary and frequency data for Old Chinese adults Worksheet #5 – Item Codes assigned to subject responses       For more information, please contact: Carolyn Yoon, Ph.D. Institute for Social Research, Room 5255 426 Thompson St. University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, 48104-2321 Telephone: 734-936-2121 Fax: 734-764-3576 E-mail: yoonc@umich.edu