Social Indicators Study of Alaskan Coastal Villages. IV. Postspill Key Informant Summaries. Schedule C Communities, Part 2 (Kenai, Tyonek, Seldovia, Kodiak City, Karluk, Old Harbor, Chignik)

摘要

In late 1986, the Minerals Management Service Joseph G. Jorgenseq as principal investigator, through (MMS) awarded a contract to the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF), for the analysis of contemporary life in 30 Alaskan villages located among seven ANCSAl Native regions from Kodiak Island to the North Slope. The MMS requested that special attention be paid to distinguishing differences, if they existed, among ANCSA regions, between Native and non-Native residents (ethnicity/race), between villages that possessed well-developed infrastructures and superstructures and those that did not, and between Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil-related activities and other activities that might affect village organizations and life within villages. The 30 villages in the original sample were selected to provide contrasts along each of these dimensions. The contract called for developing two separate Social Indicator systems that periodically can be used to monitor the social conditions of Alaskas rural communities. Each system shall be composed of variables that are sensitive to political and economic changes occurring in rural Alaska and shall provide valid longitudinal measures of the consequences of those changes. One system was to be based on a questionnaire and was administered by questionnaire investigators (or questionnaire interviewers) (QI is the abbreviation for both terms). The other was to be based on a protocol administered by key investigators (or key interviewers) (KI is the abbreviation for both terms). Each of the methodologies possessed unique strengths and was to produce a unique data set. Unavoidably, each method also had inherent weaknesses. A third, less formal method, comprising anthropological observations, informed the two formal methodologies and facilitated interpretation. The multimethod and multidata-set design is structured so that the strength of each formal method compensates for the weakness of the other method, and the informal method allows for close analysis of the construct validity of items in each formal method.