Survey data explores the relationship between residential building design and grassroots political participation in West African cities. The dataset includes original survey measures of tenants' spatial network centrality within their residential buildings. It was authored by Paige Bollen and last updated on June 17, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the link between housing type and political participation based on survey responses.
- Modeling the effect of architectural design on social ties and information access among co-tenants.
- Investigating how spatial network centrality within a residential building correlates with political behavior.
Strengths
- Dataset includes novel measures of tenants' spatial network centrality.
- Focus is on a specific, understudied urban housing form: the West African compound house.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- American Political Science Review Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Original survey data collection.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-17 10:24:48; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Urban Ghana, West Africa