Miss America Titleholders

Miss America over the years

About this dataset

Every year, young women from across the United States compete for the title of Miss America. The competition is open to women between the ages of 17 and 25, and includes a talent portion, an interview, and a swimsuit competition (which was removed in 2018). The winner is crowned by the previous year's titleholder and goes on to tour the nation for about 20,000 miles a month, promoting her particular platform of interest.

The Miss America dataset contains information on all Miss America titleholders from 1921 to 2022. It includes columns for the year of the pageant, the name of the crowned winner, her state or district represented, awards won, talent performed, and notes about her win

How to use the dataset

This dataset contains information on Miss America titleholders from 1921 to 2022. The data includes the name of the winner, her state or district, the city she represented, her talent, and the year she won

Research Ideas

• Miss America could be used to study changes in American culture over time. For example, the decline in the swimsuit competition could be seen as a sign of increasing body positivity in the US.
• The dataset could be used to study the effect of winning Miss America has on a woman's career. Does winning lead to more opportunities?
• The dataset could be used to study geographical patterns inMiss America winners. For example, are there any states that have produced more winners than others?

Acknowledgements

License

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Columns

File: miss_america_titleholders.csv | Column name | Description | |:----------------------|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | year | The year the Miss America pageant was held. (Integer) | | crowned | The name of the Miss America titleholder. (String) | | winner | The name of the Miss America winner. (String) | | state_or_district | The state or district represented by the Miss America winner. (String) | | city | The city represented by the Miss America winner. (String) | | awards | The awards won by the Miss America winner. (String) | | talent | The talent performed by the Miss America winner. (String) | | notes | Notes about the Miss America winner. (String) |

File: eurovision_winners.csv | Column name | Description | |:--------------|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Year | The year the pageant was held. (Integer) | | Date | The date the pageant was held. (Date) | | Host City | The city where the pageant was held. (String) | | Winner | The name of the pageant winner. (String) | | Song | The song performed by the pageant winner. (String) | | Performer | The name of the performer of the pageant winner's song. (String) | | Points | The number of points the pageant winner received. (Integer) | | Margin | The margin of points between the pageant winner and runner-up. (Integer) | | Runner-up | The name of the pageant runner-up. (String) |

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, Reference Information

Provenance for this README

• File name: README_Dataset-Academic-JEDI.txt
• Authors: Erin A. McKenney
• Other contributors: Diana J. R. Lafferty, Tru Hubbard, Sarah Trujillo, DeAnna Beasley
• Date created: 2023-06-08
• Date modified: 2023-10-18

Dataset Attribution and Usage

• Dataset Title: Data for the article “A path forward: creating an academic culture of justice, equity, diversity and inclusionâ€
• Persistent identifier: DOI:10.5061/dryad.cfxpnvxbb
• License: Use of these data is covered by the following license:
  • Title: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
  • Specification: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; the authors respectfully request to be contacted by researchers interested in the re-use of these data so that the possibility of collaboration can be discussed.

Methodological Information

• All data were collected by the authors.
• Methods of data collection/generation: see manuscript and Supplemental Materials f...

Political basic positions, political culture and political socialization of the population in the United States.

Topics: Except for a few items the same questionnaire as in ZA Study No. 0027 was used.

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The two text files are our lists of excluded word forms.