ABSTRACT
The questionnaire consisted of two basic parts: Wave I administered in June, 1945; Wave II administered in August, 1945. In both cases, the respondents were the same (minus the “mortality” common to such “panel studies”). In addition, there were a variety of special follow-up questionnaires for the purpose of interviewing the several types of influentials and influencees designated by our panel respondents. Rather than merely reproduce the questionnaire here, it would seem most useful to classify the different questions so that the reader can clearly relate them to the different parts of the main body of the text. This classification, in addition, will include some of the additional parts of the questionnaire which were not utilized for the present report; as was mentioned in the Introduction, the scope of the Decatur Study went well beyond the specific groups of data which were selected for inclusion in the text. 1 Bearing in mind that the special follow-up questions and procedure will be discussed in Appendix C, the following grouping exhausts the total content of the basic (panel) questionnaire schedules addressed to the cross-sectional sample of women in Decatur, Illinois: 2
