National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: The Burden of Stress in America, United States, 2014 (ICPSR 38383)

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This collection includes variable-level metadata of the 2014 poll The Burden of Stress in America, 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:

  • Stress experienced in past month
  • Impact of stress on life aspects
  • Stress affecting health
  • Stress affecting family and household
  • Stress affecting friendships
  • Stress affecting work
  • Stress affecting community involvement
  • Responses to stress
  • Time to relax in past month
  • Causes of stress
  • Concern about various problems
  • Daily events contributing to stress
  • Reasons for not experiencing stress
  • Stress experienced in past year
  • Most stressful event in past year
  • Things done to reduce stress
  • People advising stress reduction methods
  • Stress level changes in last few years
  • Stress contributing to major life problems
  • Stress contributing to future problems
  • Stress having positive effect
  • Control over stress
  • Effect of stress on other people

The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092361]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 410 variables from this survey are available through the ICPSR social science variable database and can be accessed from the Variables tab.

Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS). National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: The Burden of Stress in America, United States, 2014. Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [distributor], 2022-03-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38383.v1

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National Public Radio, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Harvard University. School of Public Health

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2014-03-05 -- 2014-04-08
  1. Please visit the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research website for more information on the 2014 The Burden of Stress in America poll.
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The study was intended to measure the experiences of Americans as far as dealing with everyday stress, and measuring the prevalence of stress in the general adult population.

The study utilized an overlapping landline/cell phone frame RDD design, with phone numbers randomly generated by Marketing Systems Group's (MSG) GENESYS sampling system.

The questionnaire was developed by HORP researchers in consultation with the SSRS project team. The questionnaire was also translated into Spanish, with a total of 46 interviews completed in Spanish.

The sample includes 2,505 national adults, age 18 or older across the 50 United States and the District of Columbia.

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2022-03-10

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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 WEIGHT.

The survey data were weighted to adjust for the fact that not all survey respondents were selected with the same probabilities, and account for systematic nonresponse along known population parameters. Weighting involved several stages: 1) adjustment for the likelihood of selection (base-weight), 2) non-response correction by stress-level, 3) post-stratification weighting using Iterative Proportional Fitting (or "raking"), and 4) adjustment to control variance among weights ("trimming").

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