Katrina@10: Katrina Impacts on Vietnamese Americans in New Orleans (KATIVA NOLA) Subsample, Louisiana, 2005-2019 (ICPSR 39340)
Version Date: Jun 24, 2025 View help for published
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Mark Jennings VanLandingham, Tulane University;
David M. Abramson, New York University;
Mary C. Waters, Harvard University
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39340.v1
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The NIH-funded Katrina@10 Program consists of an interrelated set of three primary data collection projects that focus on specific sub-populations who were uniquely affected by Hurricane Katrina: households along Louisiana and Mississippi's Gulf Coast, low-income parents from New Orleans, and Vietnamese families living in New Orleans. In addition, the program contains two secondary analyses of data that are more broadly representative of the overall affected population, and three cores (Administrative, Data Collection, Data Management and Dissemination) to support the set of research projects. The following research questions represent the studies together as a whole:
- How well does the socio-ecological model of disaster recovery developed by the research team (Abramson et al. 2010) predict recovery across the three cohort studies?
- How do trajectories of long-term recovery differ among and within these sub-populations?
- How do the trajectories of recovery compare to those of mainstream populations?
- How do the effects of predisposing factors (such as poverty) and degree-of-impact (such as flooding depth) vary among the three sub-populations?
- How do interpretations of the disaster, resilience, and recovery differ among respondents?
- What are the determinants of long-term recovery in domains such as mental and physical health, socio-economic status, and community and social roles? How are these domains related to each other across individuals and across sub-populations?
The Katrina Impacts on Vietnamese Americans in New Orleans (KATIVA NOLA) study was a longitudinal study interested in measuring the impact of Hurricane Katrina on Vietnamese-Americans living in New Orleans. The original sample was taken in summer 2005 and was followed by three rounds of short and medium-term data collection in the 5 years following Katrina. This study measured a variety of outcomes, including physical and mental health, economic stability, housing stability, and social ties, to examine the long-term recovery trajectories of participants.
The data in this collection are from an additional, long-term follow-up survey conducted between 2017 and 2019. A public-use version (DS1) and restricted-use version (DS2) are available. Open-ended responses, continuous respondent age, continuous total household income, and a variable indicating exposure to specific flood events have been masked in the public-use version. These items are available in the restricted-use version.
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These data 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 strictly prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, this data collection is restricted from general dissemination. To obtain this file, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement in accordance with existing ICPSR servicing policies.
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For more information on the Katrina@10 Project, please visit the project website.
Additional information on the Katrina Impacts on Vietnamese Americans in New Orleans (KATIVA NOLA) study is available on the Project 3: KATIVA NOLA webpage.
Study Purpose View help for Study Purpose
This goal of this study was to measure the long-term recovery trajectories of Vietnamese families living in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina.
The purpose of the overall Katrina@10 project was to analyze three separate studies on sub-populations uniquely affected by Katrina under a single theoretical framework for disaster recovery.
Study Design View help for Study Design
The Katrina Impacts on Vietnamese Americans in New Orleans (KATIVA NOLA) study was a longitudinal study surveying a cohort of Vietnamese families at 1 year, 2 years, and 5 years post-Hurricane Katrina to study families' short and medium-term recoveries. An additional follow-up survey was fielded between 2017 and 2019 to study long-term recovery trajectories. In addition to data collection, the KATIVA NOLA project maintained contact with community members through annual Happy New Year cards and other community outreach programs described on the project website.
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The Katrina@10 study builds from three existing studies, Gulf Coast Child and Family Health Study (GCAFH), Resilience in Survivors of Katrina Project (RISK), and Katrina Impacts on Vietnamese Americans in New Orleans (KATIVA NOLA). Each had a different original sampling strategy that can be found on the project website.
KATIVA NOLA constructed a representative sample of all Vietnamese families living in New Orleans based on an existing, comprehensive, and recently-updated population register of Vietnamese families. The original sample included 125 families.
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First-generation Vietnamese-American families living in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina.
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- Housing and residential mobility post-Katrina
- Physical and mental health, including chronic health conditions, health insurance coverage, mobility limitations
- Social capital and resources, including organizational memberships, racial/ethnic community ties, relationships with friends, family members, and mentors
- Risk behaviors (smoking, drinking), other traumatic experiences over the lifetime (including sexual assault/rape, arrest, being charged with a crime, serious injuries or life-threatening illnesses)
- Family dynamics
- Financial constraints
- Neighborhood conditions, specifically perceptions of safety, disorder, and cohesion
- Child-specific items reported by the respondent (mental and physical health, chronic conditions, insurance coverage, risky behaviors, temperament)
- Recovery and outlook, including sense of purpose, role of religion/spirituality, change of priorities, and other changes in behavior/beliefs as a result of Hurricane Katrina
- Recent experiences (circa 2016) with natural disasters, such as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
- Demographics, including household income, marital status, employment status, education level, social benefits receipt, race, and sex
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Of the 125 Vietnamese-Americans interviewed prior to Katrina, 112 (89.6 percent) were included in the final dataset.
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2025-06-24
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2025-06-24 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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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.