Yahoo Personals Relationships Preferences Learn – Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, 2004-2005 (ICPSR 36347)

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Major Investigator(s): see support for Major Investigator(s) Cynthia Feliciano, college of California-Irvine; Belinda Robnett, institution of California-Irvine

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The Yahoo Personals matchmaking Preferences research tried to look at the internet dating needs of web daters in four biggest metropolitan areas: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta. Net daters’ profiles of self-identified Asian, Black, Latino, and White men and women getting opposite-sex schedules had been obtained and coded from Yahoo Personals, which was the preferred nationwide online dating sites internet site in 2004 and 2005. Information had been obtained on topics’ height, frame, smoking cigarettes and sipping behavior, whether subject areas had kiddies, religious services attendance, dialects talked, and kilometers subjects are ready to traveling for a date. Facts were furthermore obtained on issues’ needs for schedules, like ideal physical appearance, life style habits, living circumstances, work condition, occupation, girls and boys, religious provider attendance, and languages spoken. Demographic suggestions collected consists of topics’ gender, get older, ethnicity, marital position, degree, political affiliation, and religious affiliation.

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Yahoo personals internet dating users are installed and coded.

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Two hundred pages each from 18-50 yr old self-identified Asian, Black, Latino or light both women and men searching for opposite-sex dates living within 50 miles of New York, la, Chicago or Atlanta had been gathered and coded, for an overall trial size of 6,070. The targeted sample proportions is 6,400 so that you can permit sturdy analytical examinations of differences across three strata: sex, competition, and metropolitan location. The trial size is smaller than focused because there happened to be under 200 Latina and Asian men pages posted in Atlanta, and some replicate pages happened to be done away with. To pull the sample, the look conditions on the internet website was utilized to show off every users per gender and race fusion in a long time within 50 kilometers of each and every area. Next, to have as consultant a sample as possible within each race/gender fusion in each urban area, pages were arranged by exactly how lately these people were posted or modified; the initial 200 pages that appeared within each race/gender/city are then selected.

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Users of Yahoo Personals online dating Web site.

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