{"id":4137,"date":"2003-02-04T16:52:02","date_gmt":"2003-02-04T16:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2003-02-04T16:52:02","modified_gmt":"2003-02-04T16:52:02","slug":"index-of-youth-civic-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4137","title":{"rendered":"index of youth civic engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\">CIRCLE <\/a>staff meeting<\/p>\n<p>this morning. The most interesting question we dealt with was this: To<\/p>\n<p>what extent is it useful to construct a broad index of civic engagement?<\/p>\n<p>CIRCLE was part of an elaborate process that developed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/research\/products\/youth_index.htm\">19<\/p>\n<p>survey questions covering a wide range of civic and political behaviors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is it useful to derive one number from these 19 questions, as an overall<\/p>\n<p>measure of overall civic engagement? If we promote such an index, some<\/p>\n<p>practitioners will use it to assess the condition of their own communities<\/p>\n<p>(compared to the national average) and to see what happens as a result<\/p>\n<p>of their programs. Is this beneficial or misleading?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a CIRCLE staff meeting this morning. The most interesting question we dealt with was this: To what extent is it useful to construct a broad index of civic engagement? CIRCLE was part of an elaborate process that developed 19 survey questions covering a wide range of civic and political behaviors. Is it useful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}