National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: African Americans' Lives Today, United States, 2013 (ICPSR 38379)
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This collection includes variable-level metadata of African Americans' Lives Today, a survey from National Public Radio, the Harvard School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted by Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS). Topics covered in this survey include:
- Satisfaction with life and environment
- Life improvements
- Satisfaction with living area
- Living area improvements
- Most important local issue
- Other black people in area
- Amount of black friends
- Economic class
- Rating various public institutions
- Rating quality of various resources
- Amount of discrimination
- Reason for discrimination
- Personal financial situation
- Economic class growing up
- Achieving American dream
- Better off than parents
- Importance of religion
- Making decisions about children
- Child schooling
- Rating child's school
- Black children in school
- Desired level of child's education
- Seeking long-term relationship
- Desire to marry
- Satisfaction with dating opportunities
- Race of romantic dates
- Looking for work
- Career success
- Unemployment concerns
- Health insurance and healthcare
- Access to care
- Medical expenses
- Quality of doctors
- Health and wellness
- Social and family life
The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092356]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 204 variables from this survey are available through the ICPSR social science variable database and can be accessed from the Variables tab.
National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: Latinos' Lives and Health Today, United States, 2013 (ICPSR 38380)
This catalog record includes detailed variable-level descriptions, enabling data discovery and comparison. The data are not archived at ICPSR. Users should consult the data owners (via the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research) directly for details on obtaining the data.
This collection includes variable-level metadata of Latinos' Lives and Health Today, a survey from National Public Radio, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, conducted by Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS). Topics covered in this survey include:
- Satisfaction with life
- Satisfaction with living area
- Most important local issue
- Other Hispanic people in living area
- Rating aspects of life
- Personal discrimination in past twelve months
- Personal finances
- Achieving American dream
- Economic class
- Better off than parents
- Opportunities for children
- Language spoken at home
- Looking for job
- Concerns about unemployment
- Biggest health problem in family
- Description of weight
- Trying to lose weight
- Medical care in past twelve months
- Problems with medical care access
- Confidence in ability to pay for major illness
- Health care facility used
- Health care professionals speaking Spanish
- Receiving poor medical care
- Health insurance coverage
- Personal health rating
- Frequency of exercise
- Country born in
- Age came to United States
- Parents' birth country
- Reasons for coming to US
- Comparing birth country to US
- Diet as more or less healthy in US.
National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: Sick in America, United States, 2012 (ICPSR 38378)
This catalog record includes detailed variable-level descriptions, enabling data discovery and comparison. The data are not archived at ICPSR. Users should consult the data owners (via the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research) directly for details on obtaining the data.
This collection includes variable-level metadata of Sick in America, a survey from National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health, conducted by Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS). Topics covered in this survey include:
- Quality of health care
- Health care costs as problem
- Reasons for health care quality problems
- Focus of doctor visits
- Reasons for rising health care costs
- Health care as good value
- Agreement with doctor statements
- Amount of doctors
- Doctor visits for check-up
- Personal insurance coverage
- Uninsured
- Overnight hospital stays
- Satisfaction with hospital medical care
- Medical care costs as reasonable
- Description of hospital stays
- Serious illness
- Interactions with medical professionals
- Impact of medical care costs on family
- Receiving care every time it's needed
- Being turned away for health care
- Insurance premiums as financial problem
- Out of pocket medical costs
- Negotiating lower charges
- Problems paying for insurance
- Changing regular doctor
- Personal financial situation
The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092354]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 159 variables from this survey are available through the ICPSR social science variable database and can be accessed from the Variables tab.