10.3886/ICPSR29523.v1
Sastry, Narayan
Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study (DNORPS)
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
2011
adjustment
alienation
communities
community development
construction costs
construction industry
demographic characteristics
disaster relief
disasters
economics
evacuations and rescues
evacuees
Federal Emergency Management Agency
floods
government agencies
health
home owners
home ownership
housing
housing conditions
housing construction
housing costs
housing needs
housing occupancy
housing shortages
housing units
hurricanes
income
living arrangements
living conditions
looting
neighborhood change
neighborhood characteristics
neighborhood conditions
place of residence
population characteristics
population dynamics
population migration
relocation
socioeconomic status
Southern United States
trust in government
2011-03-24
2011-03-24
2005-08
2006-11
survey data
29523
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The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study was designed to examine the current
location, well-being, and plans of people who lived in the city of New Orleans when Hurricane
Katrina struck on August 29, 2005. The study is based on a representative sample of pre-Katrina
dwellings in New Orleans. Fieldwork focused on tracking respondents wherever they
currently resided, including back to New Orleans. Respondents were administered a short paper-and-pencil interview by mail, by telephone, or in person. The pilot study was fielded in the
fall of 2006, approximately one year after Hurricane Katrina.
The goal of DNORPS was to assess the feasibility of the study design and thereby to lay
the groundwork for launching a major longitudinal study of displaced New Orleans residents.
The goal of this study was to determine the feasibility, best practices, and expected costs of conducting a long-term study of the demographic, social, economic, and health effects of Hurricane Katrina on the population of New Orleans.
Starting with a sample of 344 housing units selected from the period pre-Katrina, the project team used a multi-mode approach to locate and interview an individual from each sampled housing unit. The protocol called for sending every sampled household a letter and questionnaire, while concurrently sending the sample through multiple batch tracing and intensive tracing searches to attempt to assign a name and telephone number to each sampled unit.
Primarily demographic and housing information