Description & Citation--Study No. 4690 | | | ICPSR Study No.: | 4690 |
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Persistent URL:
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| | | Title: | Americans' Changing Lives: Waves I, II, III, and IV, 1986, 1989, 1994, and 2002 |
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| | | Principal Investigator(s): | James S. House, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center |
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| | | Funding Agency: | United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging |
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| | | Grant Number: | AG05561 |
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| | | Bibliographic Citation: | House, James S. Americans' Changing Lives: Waves I, II, III, and IV, 1986, 1989, 1994, and 2002 [Computer file]. ICPSR04690-v4. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-12-11. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04690 |
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| | | | 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. |
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| | | 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 |
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| | | Geographic Coverage: | United States |
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| | | Time Period: | 1986; 1989; 1994; 2002 |
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| | | Date(s) of Collection: | 1986; 1989; 1994; 2002 |
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| | | Universe: | The continental United States' household population aged
25 and older. |
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| | | Data Type: | survey data |
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| | | Data Collection Notes: | 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. |
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| 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. |
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| | | | 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. |
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| | | Mode of Data Collection: | face-to-face interview |
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| | | | 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. |
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| | | Restrictions: | To preserve respondent confidentiality, certain
identifying variables are restricted from general dissemination. |
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| | | Original ICPSR Release: | 2007-03-23 |
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| | | Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2008-12-11. |
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| 2008-12-11 - The data have been updated. |
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| 2008-11-18 - The data and codebook have been updated. |
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| 2007-10-11 - The codebook has been updated. |
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| 2007-04-12 - The data and codebook have been
updated. |
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| | | Dataset(s): | - DS1: Americans' Changing Lives: Waves I, II, III, and IV, 1986, 1989, 1994, and 2002
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