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7-~ -~-±-~--~t- ~7~~ ~-Y. -,--~- ---UNCLASSIFIEDDOC REPORT BIBLIOGRAPHY SEARCH CONTROL NUo /ZMML7AU-728 849 15/3IOWA STATE UNIV AMES DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY ANDANTHROPOLOGYPUBLIC RESPONSE TO COMMUNITY SHLLTERPLANNING: DES MOINES ANU POLK COUNTY,lOtA, APPENDICES* (U)DLSCRIPTIVE NOTE: FINAL REPT,,MAY 71 34'P YARBROUGmsPAUL ;KLONGLANtGERALD E* IPADGITTSTEvE IREPT. NO. SOCIOLOGY-BBCONTRACT; DAHC20-69-C-OI3PROJ: OC0-q811GUNwCLASSIFIEDREPORTSUPPLEMENTARY NOTE: REPORT ON SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES INCIVIL DEFENSE. PREPARED IN COOPERATION AITH IOWAAGRICULTURAL AND HOME ECONOMICS EXPERIMENTSTATION, PROJECT 1754o SEE ALSO SUMMARY REPORT,AD-728 848oDESCRIPTORS: (*CIVIL DEFENSE SYSTEMS, ATTITUUES);(*FALLOUT SkELTERSt *ATTITUDES)$ QUESTIONNAIRES,SOCIOLOGY(U)THE STUoY INVESTIGATED RESPONSES MADE BY ADULTS INDES MOINES, IO*A. TO THE COSMUNITY SHELTERPLAN (CSP)# A TOTAL OF 938 INTERVIEWS AERECOMPLETED OURIN4 THE STUDj, THIS INCLUDED ADEQUATECONTROL SAMPLES BEFORE AND AFTEN PUBLICATION OF CS1AS NELL AS PANELS. ONE PANEL *AS INITIATED gEFORECSPI OTHER *ERE CONTINUED FROM THE RESEARCHERS'EARLIER HOME FALLOUT PROTZCTION SURVEY STUDY,THE CSP MESSAGE INCLUDED A PLAN ALLOCATING PUBLICFALLOUT SHELTERS TO RESIDENTS BASED ON PLACE OFRESIDENCE. IT *AS PUBLISHED IN THE FORM OF A 12-PAGE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT.ATTEN1ION GIVEN THE MESSAGE WAS ABOUT AVERAGE *ITHSIMILAR SUPPLEMENTS (SLIGHTLY LESS THAN HALF OF THETOTAL AUDIENCE). BUT COMPREHENSION OF THE PLAN NASL 0 4, ONLY SEVEN PERCENT OF OUR CONTROL SAMPLECULLD RECALL THE NAME ON LOCATIUN OF A SHELTERALLOCATED FOR HIS USE AND O,,LY FOUR PERCENT COULDRECALL mOo THEY *LRL !NSTeUCTED TO TRAVEL TC THESMELTER, ACCEPTANCE RESPONSES WLRE LOW. A SLIGHTINCREASE *Ab OBSERVtD IN LEVEL uF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ALOCAL CIVIL DEFENSE PROGRAM AND IN THE ANTICIPATORYDECIbION TO CONCURRENTLY ADOPT PUBLIC OR HOME SMELTERPROTECTION ALTERNATIVES. THL DISPOSITIONAL MODELDID NOT HOLD WELL IN PREDICTING ATTENTION TO CSP, (U)146UNCLASSIFIED/ZMiiL7