Familial Responses to Financial Instability, Doubling Up When Times Are Tough: Obligations to Share a Home in Response to Economic Hardship, 2009 [United States] (ICPSR 26543)
Principal Investigator(s): National Center for Family and Marriage Research; Seltzer, Judith A., University of California-Los Angeles; Bianchi, Suzanne M., University of California-Los Angeles
Summary:
This study focused on household living arrangements of parents and adult children during times of financial instability. A survey of over 3,000 adults aged 18 years and older from the general population was conducted by Knowledge Networks on behalf of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research. The survey was completed by 3,132 respondents out of 4,478 cases (69.9 percent response rate).
Series: National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) Pilot Data Series
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Citation
National Center for Family and Marriage Research, Judith A. Seltzer, and Suzanne M. Bianchi. Familial Responses to Financial Instability, Doubling Up When Times Are Tough: Obligations to Share a Home in Response to Economic Hardship, 2009 [United States]. ICPSR26543-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-05-20. doi:10.3886/ICPSR26543.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR26543.v1
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: family size, family structure, household budgets, household expenditures, household income, marital status, occupational categories, occupational status, personal finances
Geographic Coverage: United States
Time Period:
- 2009
Date of Collection:
- 2009-08-14--2009-08-28
Unit of Observation: individual
Data Types: survey data
Data Collection Notes:
This research is supported by the National Center for Family and Marriage Research, which is funded by a cooperative agreement, grant number 5 U01 AE000001-03, between the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Bowling Green State University.
Methodology
Study Design: Study design is described in the study documentation.
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Mode of Data Collection: web-based survey
Response Rates: 69.9 percent
Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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Original ICPSR Release: 2010-05-04
Version History:
- 2010-05-20 PI requested minor revisions to the study title and PI listing.
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