Healthy Americas Survey, 2014 (ICPSR 36433)

Version Date: Aug 31, 2016

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Principal Investigator(s):
Adolph Falcon, National Alliance for Hispanic Health

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36433.v1

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Summary

The Healthy Americas Survey interviewed Hispanics, white non-Hispanics and black non-Hispanics about their health status; smoking; leisure-time physical activities; consumption of fruit and vegetables, sugary drinks, and sodium; preventive health checkups and vaccinations; chronic conditions; health insurance and access to health care; knowledge of and opinions about the Affordable Care Act; and use of the ACA marketplace websites. Personal characteristics covered by the survey include age, sex, education, religion, marital status, employment status, race, Hispanic origin, country of birth, income, and household composition.

Citation

Falcon, Adolph. Healthy Americas Survey, 2014. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-08-31. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36433.v1

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Funding

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (70581), Healthy Americas Foundation

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Restrictions

As explained in the ICPSR Processing Notes in the codebook, ICPSR restricted the variables state (state postal code), dma (Nielsen DMA), countyc (county FIPS) and division (census division) from general dissemination for reasons of confidentiality. Users interested in obtaining the restricted data must complete an Agreement for the Use of Confidential Data, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research. Apply for access to the restricted data through the ICPSR restricted data contract portal, which can be accessed via the study home page.

Distributor(s)

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

2014-02-16 -- 2014-03-02

Date of Collection

2014-02-16 -- 2014-03-02

Data Collection Notes

  1. Additional information about the survey is available on the Healthy Americas Institute website.

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Sample

The Healthy Americas Survey was implemented as an insert to the EXCEL Omnibus Survey, a national, weekly, dual frame bilingual telephone survey conducted by Social Science Research Solutions/SSRS. Respondents were selected using randomly generated landline and cell phone numbers. The interviews were conducted over four waves of the SSRS Omnibus fielded during February 16 to March 2, 2014.

Universe

Hispanics, white non-Hispanics and black non-Hispanics ages 18 and over.

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

11.4 percent

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Original Release Date

2016-08-31

Version History

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:
  • Falcon, Adolph. Healthy Americas Survey, 2014. ICPSR36433-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-08-31. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36433.v1

2016-08-31 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:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

  • One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions. Restricted data files are not available for direct download from the website; click on the Restricted Data button to learn more.