Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Poll # 2006-VUL: Vulnerable Populations, United States, 2006 (ICPSR 38366)
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International Communications Research (ICR)
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38366.v1
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This collection includes variable-level metadata of Poll # 2006-VUL: Vulnerable Populations, a survey from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted by ICR-International Communications Research. Topics covered in this survey include:
- Knowledge of maximum yearly income for family of 4 to be considered to be living in poverty
- Knowledge of proportion of United States children who do not complete high school
- Proportion of children living in poverty who do not complete high school
- Government aid to children of legal immigrants
- Favor/oppose continuing government support for children in foster care until age 25
- Most important services for government to spend more money on for children in foster care
- Responsibility for paying for long-term care for older adults
- Preferred place to be if elderly and ill/disabled
- Long-term care insurance
- Seriousness of gun/domestic violence in the community
The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092321]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 108 variables from this survey are available through the ICPSR social science variable database and can be accessed from the Variables tab.
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- Please visit the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research website for more information on Poll # 2006-VUL: Vulnerable Populations.
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The sample includes 1,100 national adults.
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