Description & Citation--Study No. 23140

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:23140
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23140
 
Title:Study on Aging, 1980
 
Principal Investigator(s):Rusell A. Ward , State University of New York-Albany
 
Bibliographic Citation:Ward , Rusell A. Study on Aging, 1980 [Computer file]. ICPSR23140-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-10-29. doi:10.3886/ICPSR23140
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This study investigates the mental health impact of residential segregation of the aged, comparing older residents of age-integrated and age-segregated neighborhoods in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, standard metropolitan statistical area (SMSA).
 
Subject Term(s):aging, mental health, neighborhoods, older adults, residential segregation
 
Geographic Coverage:New York (state), United States
 
Time Period:1980
 
Date(s) of Collection:1980, Fall
 
Universe:Persons aged 60 from the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, SMSA.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:Fieldwork and data preparation and cleaning were done by Opinion Research Corp., Princeton, NJ.
 
  This data collection includes unprocessed, as-is data recovered from obsolete media. Please refer to the user guide for details on working with these files.
 

Methodology

Sample:A sample of 1,185 persons aged 60 from the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, SMSA.
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2008-10-29
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Study on Aging, 1980