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Description & Citation--Study No. 4690

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:4690
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04690
 
Title:Americans' Changing Lives: Waves I, II, III, and IV, 1986, 1989, 1994, and 2002
 
Principal Investigator(s):James S. House, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center
 
Funding Agency:National Institute on Aging
 
Grant Number:AG05561
 
Bibliographic Citation:House, James S. AMERICANS' CHANGING LIVES: WAVES I, II, III, AND IV, 1986, 1989, 1994, AND 2002 [Computer file]. ICPSR04690-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center [producer], 2006. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-10-11.
 

Scope of Study

Summary:Focusing especially on differences between Black and White Americans in middle and late life, these data constitute the first, second, third, and fourth waves in a national longitudinal panel survey covering a wide range of sociological, psychological, mental, and physical health items. The fourth wave of Americans' Changing Lives (ACL IV) was collected in 2002 and is part of a larger research program designed to investigate the following: (1) the ways in which a wide range of activities and social relationships that people engage in are broadly "productive," (2) how individuals adapt to acute life events and chronic stresses that threaten the maintenance of health, effective functioning, and productive activity, and (3) sociocultural variations in the nature, meaning, determinants, and consequences of productive activity and relationships. Among the topics covered are interpersonal relationships (spouse/partner, children, parents, friends), sources and levels of satisfaction, social interactions and leisure activities, traumatic life events (physical assault, serious illness, divorce, death of a loved one, financial or legal problems), perceptions of retirement, health behaviors (smoking, alcohol consumption, overweight, rest), and utilization of health care services (doctor visits, hospitalization, nursing home institutionalization, bed days). Also included are measures of physical health, psychological well-being, and indices referring to cognitive functioning. Background information provided for individuals includes household composition, number of children and grandchildren, employment status, occupation and work history, income, family financial situation, religious beliefs and practices, ethnicity, race, education, sex, and region of residence.
 
Subject Term(s):coping, experience, family relationships, health behavior, interpersonal relationships, life events, life satisfaction, mental health, older adults, psychological wellbeing, quality of life, race, social networks, stress
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1986, Wave 1; 1989, Wave 2; 1994, Wave 3; 2002, Wave 4
 
Date(s) of Collection:1986; 1989; 1994; 2002
 
Universe:The continental United States' household population aged 25 and older.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) This data collection incorporates data from the first three waves of this survey: AMERICANS' CHANGING LIVES: WAVE I AND II, 1986 AND 1989 (ACLII) [ICPSR 6438], AMERICANS' CHANGING LIVES: WAVE I, II, AND III 1986, 1989, AND 1994 (ACLIII) [ICPSR 3394], with data from the fourth wave carried out in 2002. (2) Wave IV supercedes all previous collections. The earlier data collections, Waves I and II (ICPSR 6438), and Waves I, II, and III (ICPSR 3394), are no longer available from ICPSR.
 

Methodology

Sample:For Wave I, a multistage stratified area probability sample with oversampling of Blacks and those aged 60 and older was used. For Wave II, an attempt was made to contact all the respondents from Wave I (N = 3,617). The cases responding to Wave II numbered 2,867. For Wave III, an attempt was made to contact all the respondents from Waves I and II. The cases responding to Wave III numbered 2,562. In addition, some Wave III interviews (N = 164) were done by proxy respondents and not by the original Wave I respondent. The cases corresponding to Wave IV number 3,617.
 
Mode of Data Collection:face-to-face interview
 

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.
 
Restrictions:To preserve respondent confidentiality, certain identifying variables are restricted from general dissemination.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2007-03-23
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2007-10-11.
 
  2007-10-11 - The codebook has been updated.
 
  2007-04-12 - The data and codebook have been updated.
 

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