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American Health Values Survey (AHVS): Sentinel Communities Segmentation, 5 American communities, 2016-2017 (ICPSR 37910)

Released/updated on: 2021-11-22

Geographic coverage: Baltimore, United States, Phoenix, California, Alabama, Maryland, Mobile, Arizona, Stockton, Nebraska

Time period: 2016-01-01--2017-01-01

The American Health Values Survey (AHVS) was conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago in order to develop a typology of Americans based on their health values and beliefs. The survey, of more than 10,000 adults from five individual communities, examined values and beliefs related to health at both the individual as well as societal levels. The community surveys sought to compare differences between the local typologies, but also to investigate any similarities with national typology groups. The survey assessed the importance of health in:

day-to-day personal life (i.e. the amount of effort spent on disease prevention as well as appropriate seeking of medical care);
equity, the value placed on the opportunity to succeed generally in life as well as on health equity;
social solidarity, the importance of taking into account the needs of others as well as personal needs;
health care disparities, views about how easy/hard it is for African Americans, Latinos and low-income Americans to get quality health care;
and, the importance of the social determinants of health.

In addition, the survey also explored views about how active government should be in health; collective efficacy, the ease of affecting positive community change by working with others; and health-related civic engagement e.g. the support of health charities and organizations working on health issues.

There are public-use and restricted-use versions of the data provided for each of the five sentinel communities participating in this study. Although each site differs on the number of respondents as listed below, each data file contains the same 143 variables for each site and version of the data. The only difference between the public-use versus restricted-use versions of the data is the variable ZIP, which was MASKED in the public-use version.

DS1 and DS2 - Baltimore, Maryland: 2,139
DS3 and DS4 - Maricopa County, Arizona: 2,247
DS5 and DS6 - Stockton, California: 2,127
DS7 and DS8 - Mobile, Alabama: 1,821
DS9 and DS10 - North Central counties in Nebraska: 2,846

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Evaluation of the Balance Calories Initiative, 2016 Baseline, Alabama and Mississippi (ICPSR 37110)

Released/updated on: 2018-12-17

Geographic coverage: Mississippi, United States, Montgomery, Alabama, Birmingham

The Evaluation of the Balance Calories Initiative collection includes datasets consisting of intercept interviews of adults and adolescents regarding their beverage consumption. This data was collected as part of an evaluation of the Balance Calories Initiative (BCI) campaign. The BCI is a campaign launched by the top three American beverage companies (Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper, and Pepsi) to help Americans reduce their consumption of sugar from beverages, especially through increasing interest in low- and no-calorie beverages. The BCI began in 2015, and was introduced to the Mississippi Delta region and Montgomery, Alabama in 2016. Researchers conducted point-of-purchase interviews in the South Delta and Montgomery communities to study the BCI campaign progress in predominantly low-income neighborhoods. Two non-BCI comparison communities matched by population and socio-demographic composition in the region, the North Delta of Mississippi and Birmingham, AL, were also included. Participants were recruited outside of retail food outlets, primarily grocery stores and big box stores, but also restaurants and convenience stores.

Demographic information in this collection include sex, age, race, education level, employment status, marital status, and categorical income.

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Southern Rural Access Program (SRAP) Survey of Access to Outpatient Medical Services in the Rural Southeast, 2002-2003 (ICPSR 4724)

Released/updated on: 2007-10-17

Geographic coverage: West Virginia, Mississippi, United States, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina

Time period: 2002-11-01--2003-07-01

This survey was conducted to obtain baseline data as part of an evaluation of the Southern Rural Access Program (SRAP), a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative to improve access to health care services in select rural areas of eight states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, West Virginia, and eastern Texas. Within these states, 150 nonmetropolitan counties were selected for SRAP participation based on perceived local health needs, willingness of local organizations and providers to partner with the program's efforts, and prospects for long-term program viability. The SRAP counties demonstrated greater socioeconomic need than other nonmetropolitan counties in the eight states: approximately 50 percent higher poverty rates, 30 percent higher unemployment, and 40 percent greater minority proportions. Topics covered by the survey include health status, health insurance coverage, health care access challenges, confidence in and satisfaction with health care, and utilization of outpatient services including specific disease prevention services. Personal demographic characteristics collected by the survey include age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, primary language spoken at home, marital status, educational achievement, work status, income, number of children at home, and the state, county, town, and ZIP code of residence. The data file also contains county-level and Primary Care Service Area (PCSA)-level contextual variables from external sources, such as population size, population composition by race, number of hospital beds, and variables indicating the presence of short term hospitals and Federally Qualified Health Centers.

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Study of the Response of Small Businesses to State Health Insurance Exchanges, 2012-2013 (ICPSR 35246)

Released/updated on: 2024-02-14

Geographic coverage: Oregon, United States, Colorado, Minnesota, Alabama, New York (state)

Time period: 2012-10-31--2013-09-09

This survey studied small businesses' health insurance offerings and their owners' knowledge about health insurance exchanges and other Affordable Care Act provisions in five of the states participating in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Health Reform Assistance Network: Alabama, Colorado, Minnesota, New York and Oregon. Statewide online and computer-assisted telephone interviews provided baseline information -- before the establishment of the ACA's individual or Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) exchanges -- on the types of health insurance offered by small firms with 3 to 100 employees, which workers were offered insurance, and the cost of that coverage to the employer and employee. Other topics covered by the survey include the firms' characteristics, reasons for offering or not offering health insurance, claims for the ACA small business tax credit, general impressions of the ACA, changes the firms made to their health insurance benefits in response to ACA provisions, and whether the availability of coverage in the new individual and SHOP exchanges would influence their decisions to offer health insurance in the future.