Letter from Court to Lado RE: Information Requested from Armor Letter in Timely Manner

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MacKenzie Hall 

110 Sherman Street 

Hartford, CT 06105 

  

RICHARD BLUMENTHAL 
ATTORNEY GENERAL 

  

FAX (203) 523-5536 

Office of The Attorney General Tel: - 566-7173 

State of Connecticut 
August 31, 1992 

Marianne Engleman Lado, Esq. 
NAACP Legal Defense and 
Education Fund, Inc. 

99 Hudson Street 

New York, NY 10013 

RE: SHEFF v. O'NEILL/DEFENDANTS' FIRST REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION 
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Dear Marianne: 

Thank you for providing us with a replacement copy of the 
Crain data diskette. After receiving the diskette work was 
immediately started on the analysis of the data. For the reasons 
stated in the enclosed letter of August 28, 1992 from Dr. David 

J. Armor to Lloyd Calvert, the diskette is not usable unless we 

receive the additional information listed in that letter. 

The information listed in the August 28, 1992 Armor letter 

falls within the scope of the defendants' first request for 
production of documents. Within five (5) business days after the 
FAX transmittal of this letter would you please advise me of the 
following in writing: (1) whether the plaintiffs will provide all 
of the information requested in the August 28th Armor letter; and 
(2) when the defendants can expect to receive the requested 
information and material. 

Given the unreasonable time constraints under which the 
defendants are now forced to operate, we are not anxious to waste 
our time bringing yet another motion for order for compliance 
with discovery against the plaintiffs. You should, however, 
treat this letter as an attempt by the defendants to reach an 
agreement with the plaintiffs regarding the adequacy of the 
plaintiffs' response to defendants' first request for production. 
We will have no choice but to pursue the motion for order of 
compliance if it appears that we will not get the information and 
material identified in the August 28th Armor letter promptly. 

 



  

Marianne Engleman Lado, Esq. 

August 31, 1992 

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Thank you for your attention to this matter. 

Very truly yours, 

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RICHARD B! 
ATTORNEY G 

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cc: Philip Tegeler, Esq. 
Martha M. Watts, Asst. Atty. Gen. 

David Armor, Ph.D. 

 



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DAVID J. ARMOR, Ph.D. 
5006 Klingle St., NW 
Washington, DC 20016 

(202) 363-7041 
August 28, 1992 

Lloyd Calvert 
Attorney General's Office 
State of Connecticut 
MacKenzie Hall, 110 Sherman St. 
Hartford, CT 06105 

Dear Lloyd: 

I have now had a chance to investigate the data file for the 

Crain data along with the documentation files sent earlier, and I 

have the following problems: : 

vA First and foremost, the data file I have is apparently a raw 

data file and not the "working" file described in the "codebook" 

provided in hard copy form with the other documents. Hence I can 

do nothing with this data without the following: 

a. To make the raw data file usable, I need a detailed 

description of the file layout (what information or items are in 

what positions), and a codebook for this raw data file 

(definitions of each item and code meanings, etc.). I can use 

the student questionnaire for part of this, and I have been able 

to figure out which part of the file contains the student 

questionnaire information, but I have no idea what the rest of 
the data is. 

b. The codebook which is sent is for what we call an SPSS 

ngystem" file which is used for the actual analysis. We should 

request this file. The SPSS file contains much (but not all) of 

the raw data, plus derived and recoded variables, and 

variable/code labels for most items which makes them 

interpretable. It is this SPSS system file that is used for the 

actual analysis, and I might be able to use it directly=--but 

explain to whoever prepares the file that I am using the PC+ 

version of SPSS. 

2. The raw data file apparently has some test score and other 

data from the original Project Concern evaluation, which I would 

very much like to use, but the SPSS file has no definitions for 

such variables. Since this information is not in the main 8PSS 

file for which we have documentation, we need to request its 

location and definition in the raw data file as well as any SPSS 

system file which might also have it. 

 



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3. The SPSS file only contains part of the information from the 

"parent Supplement" guestionnaire--only questions 1 to 3 and 10 
to 26. Were the other questions not analyzed? Is the full 

questionnaire in the raw data file? 

4. The SPSS file also identifies some information from another 

parent questionnaire (identified as PQ items). Again, the file 

includes only a few items from this questionnaire, and also we do 

not have a copy of the complete parent questionnaire. 

5. Some items in the SPSS file, particularly some derived or 

recoded items, are not fully documented. I will list the 

relative item number the SPSS variable name, and a label (if 

there is one) for the items on which we need more documentation: 

49,50 LOCC, LIND OCCUPATION, INDUSTRY CODES 

105,106 FOCC, FIND " 

141 JASPIHS OCCUPATION CODE 

142 JASPISY " 
340 TIDSCH ID OF SENDING SCHOOL 

343 TVOLUNTE ID VOLUNTEER FOR PC? 

350 PWHYLEAV WHY QUIT PC? (P. SUPP.) 

362 PWHATDO WHAT CHILD DOING NOW (P. SUPP.) 

364,365 POCC, PIND OCC, IND CODES 

371 PYOURJOB WHAT PARENT DOES 

373 PMATEJOB WHAT SPOUSE DOES 

408-424 Source of item not clear 

425-429 Undefined (derived att. scales?) 

430-447, 449-460 Code values undefined (appear to 
be recodes of original items) 

  
  

 



State of Connecticut 
ATTORNEY GENERAL 

MacKENZIE HALL 

110 SHERMAN STREET 

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT 06105 

MARIANNE ENGLEMAN LADO ESQ wey 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION Fo INC 
99 HUDSON STREET 

NEW YORK NY 10013, 

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