Midlife in the United States (MIDUS 2): Milwaukee African American Sample, 2005-2006 (ICPSR 22840)

Version Date: Feb 26, 2024

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Principal Investigator(s):
Carol D. Ryff, University of Wisconsin-Madison; David M. Almeida, Pennsylvania State University; John Z. Ayanian, University of Michigan; Deborah S. Carr, Boston University; Paul D. Cleary, Yale University; Christopher Coe, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Richard J. Davidson, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Robert F. Kruger, University of Minnesota; Margie E. Lachman, Brandeis University; Nadine F. Marks, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Daniel K. Mroczek, Northwestern University; Teresa E. Seeman, University of California-Los Angeles; Marsha Mallick Seltzer, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Burton H. Singer, University of Florida; Richard P. Sloan, Columbia University; Patricia A. Tun, Brandeis University; Maxine Weinstein, Georgetown University; David R. Williams, Harvard University

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22840.v7

Version V7 ()

  • V7 [2024-02-26]
  • V6 [2022-10-12] unpublished
  • V5 [2018-03-09] unpublished
  • V2 [2013-02-07] unpublished
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Alternate Title

MIDUS 2 Milwaukee

Summary

As a refinement to Midlife in the United States (MIDUS 2), 2004-2006 (ICPSR 4652), a sample of African Americans from Milwaukee was included to examine health issues in minority populations. Areas of the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were stratified according to the proportion of the population that were African American. Those areas with high concentrations were sampled at higher rates than areas with lower concentrations. Area probability sampling methods were used along with population counts from the 2000 United States Census to identify potential respondents. Field interviewers screened households to determine if they contained any African American adults. There was additional screening to achieve an appropriate age/gender distribution in a manner similar to what was done for the original MIDUS sample Midlife in the United States (MIDUS 1), 1995-1996 (ICPSR 2760). Milwaukee respondents were interviewed in their homes using a Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) protocol and afterwards asked to complete a Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ). All measures paralleled those used in the larger MIDUS 1 and 2 samples. After successful completion of the Project 1 survey, some participants were eligible to participate in other MIDUS projects (2 through 5). Survey data was collected for 592 individuals.

Citation

Ryff, Carol D., Almeida, David M., Ayanian, John Z., Carr, Deborah S., Cleary, Paul D., Coe, Christopher, … Williams, David R. Midlife in the United States (MIDUS 2): Milwaukee African American Sample, 2005-2006. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-02-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22840.v7

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Funding

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (P01-AG020166)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

city

Restrictions

This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, these data are restricted from general dissemination. To obtain this file, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement and send the signed forms to the National Archive of Computerized Data at icpsr-nacda@umich.edu.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2005 -- 2006

Date of Collection

2005-03-30 -- 2006-06-29

Data Collection Notes

  1. The title of this study was changed from Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS II): Milwaukee African American Sample, 2005-2006, to Midlife in the United States (MIDUS 2): Milwaukee African American Sample, 2005-2006, on June 2, 2017.

  2. Additional information about the Midlife Development in the United States study can be found at the MIDUS website.

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Study Purpose

A specific aim of the MIDUS 2 was to recruit a new city-specific oversample of African Americans to participate in a field interview and questionnaire that paralleled the main sample instruments. Milwaukee was chosen in hopes of recruiting many of these respondents to the biological and neuroscience assessments.

The goal of this project was to complete interviews with 400 African Americans between 35 and 85 years of age. All respondents self-identified as black during the in-person screening process.

Study Design

All respondents were invited to participate in a phone interview of approximately 30 minutes in length and to complete 2 self-administered questionnaires (SAQs), each of approximately 45 pages in length. In addition, the twin subsample was administered a short screening survey to assess zygosity and other twin-specific information.

Sample

The sampling design was a stratified area probability sample of households in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. The sampling frame included Census tracts in which at least 40 percent of the population was African American. The Census blocks were stratified by income, with roughly half coming from tracts in which the median household income was $40,000 or greater, and the rest coming from tracts in which the median household income was below $40,000.

Of the 7,108 participants in MIDUS 1, 4,963 were successfully contacted to participate in another phone interview of about 30 minutes in length. The average longitudinal follow-up interval was approximately 9 years and ranged from 7.8 to 10.4 years.

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend / Repeated Cross-section

Universe

Adult African American residents aged 25-74 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

The overall response rate for the in-person interview was 70.7 percent. The overall SAQ response rate was 67.2 percent. The phone survey administration of the Telephone Assisted Cognitive Testing (TACT) had an overall response rate of 51.8 percent. Full discussion of the response rates for all of these portions of the MIDUS 2 Project 1 Milwaukee oversample are reported in the response rates section of Appendix A.

Presence of Common Scales

  • The Affect Balance Scale
  • The General Well-Being Schedule
  • Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Inventory (CES-D)
  • The University of Michigan's Composite International Diagnostic Interview
  • The Health Opinion Survey
  • Health Locus of Control
  • Somatic Amplification Scale

Additional information regarding scales can be found in the Psychosocial Constructs and Composite Variables documentation.

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Original Release Date

2008-08-26

Version History

2024-02-26 This collection was updated to include the full product suite.

2022-10-12 An updated email contact and formatting changes were added to the Restricted Data Use Agreement.

2018-03-09 This collection is being updated, per request from the PI, to reflect a title change; the corresponding downloadable files are only being updated to reflect the title change, where applicable.

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Ryff, Carol D., David M. Almeida, John Z. Ayanian, Deborah S. Carr, Paul D. Cleary, Christopher Coe, Richard J. Davidson, Robert F. Kruger, Margie E. Lachman, Nadine F. Marks, Daniel K. Mroczek, Teresa E. Seeman, Marsha Mallick Seltzer, Burton H. Singer, Richard P. Sloan, Patricia A. Tun, Maxine Weinstein, and David R. Williams. Midlife in the United States (MIDUS 2): Milwaukee African American Sample, 2005-2006. ICPSR22840-v7. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-02-26. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22840.v7

2013-02-07 The Restricted Data Use Agreement has been updated.

2012-05-21 The Restricted Data Use Agreement for this study has been updated.

2009-11-10 Editing changes made to the Restrictions field.

2008-08-26 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:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
  • Created online analysis version with question text.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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