National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: Health Education Survey, United States, 2013 (ICPSR 38381)
Version Date: Mar 10, 2022 View help for published
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Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS)
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38381.v1
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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 the 2013 poll Health Education Survey, a survey from National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health conducted by Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS). Topics covered in this survey include:
- Grade child enrolled in
- Location of child's school
- Enrollment total
- Giving grade to child's school
- Biggest problem at school
- Emphasis on various subjects
- School teaching same values as home values
- School obligations interfering with family time
- Knowledge about common core
- Common core improving education
- Method of learning about common core
- Success of common core
- School preparing students for careers
- Attending technical
- Vocational classes
- Preparing students for college
- Preparing students for job market
- Student plans after high school
- College or career planning services
- Healthiness of school lunches
- Foods available at school
- Length of school lunch
- Time of lunch period
- Vending machines at school
- Fast-food chains at school
- Physical education as mandatory
- Frequency of PE classes
- Length of PE classes
- PE classes for other purposes
- Rating PE school offerings
- Playgrounds available after school
- Recess as structured or free time
- School safety
- Security precautions at school
- Ways of preventing violence at school
- Increasing security after Newtown shooting
- Method of transport to school
- Time to get home from school
- Safety of travelling to school
- School related stress
- School counseling for stressed students
- Time of school day
The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092359]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 148 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 the Health Education Survey 2013 poll.
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The study was intended to learn about the experiences of children in U.S. public schools as reported by knowledgeable adults in their households.
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The study utilized an overlapping landline (n=744)/cell phone (n=624) dual-frame RDD design, with RDD samples randomly generated by Marketing System Group's (MSG) GENSYS system. The sample was also stratified by the ethnic makeup of telephone exchanges, and used Census Block Groups to address representation concerns. In addition, to supplement the landline sample, 70 interviews were completed by re-contacting respondents who had previously completed interviews on SSRS's omnibus survey and indicated that someone between the ages of 6 and 18 lived in their households.
The questionnaire was developed by the HORP research team in consultation with SSRS. The questionnaire was translated into Spanish, with 56 interviews completed in Spanish.
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The sample includes 1,368 national adults.
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Adults, who were knowledgeable about the experiences of a child living in their household who attended kindergarten through 12th grade in a public school
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The response rate for the landline component was 20% and the cell phone component was 17%.
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The study dataset contains weight factors that should be employed in any data analysis. Typically weights are used in an attempt to assure that the survey sample more accurately represents the population. The weight variable in this study is HHWEIGHT.
A multi-phase weighting adjustment was conducted for this study in order to adjust for differences in the probability of selection between listed households (LHH) and the remaining RDD sampling frames, to adjust for the oversampling of high-density African American exchanges, to adjust for any difference in non-response between the various landline strata, to adjust for the greater probability of selection of dual-mode users (people whose households answer both landlines and cell phones), and to balance the sample to known population parameters.
Weight was first calculated by making 1) sample design adjustments to account for the over- and under-sampling of landline and systematic differences in nonresponse rates among these strata, 2) correction for re-contact nonresponse, 3) dual-user adjustments, and 4) created a child weight to account for more qualifying children living in a household. With the base weight applied, the data were then subjected to 5) post-stratification child-level adjustment using Iterative Proportional Fitting to match population estimates from the 2011 U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. Data then underwent 6) truncation ("trimming") to reduce variance in the weights and minimize design effect, and finally 7) analytical household weight to be able to analyze the data on the basis of U.S. households instead of children.
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