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

Released/updated on: 2022-03-10

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2014-01-01--2014-12-31

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 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.

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Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/National Public Radio Poll: What Shapes Health, United States, 2014 (ICPSR 38384)

Released/updated on: 2022-03-10

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2014-01-01--2014-12-31

This collection includes variable-level metadata of the 2014 poll What Shapes Health, 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:

Concerned about own health
Meaning of health
Control over own health
Effort into maintaining health
Frequency of healthy activities
Description of personal health
Types of healthy habits
On diet to lose weight
Ways to improve health
Things that cause health problems
Childhood problems causing future health issues
Participation in community organizations
Volunteering improving health
Being told to improve health
Family/friend behavior influencing health
Health habits of family/friends
Problems experienced in adulthood
Problems experience in childhood
Receiving health care
Difficulty accessing health care
Parents' health
Recent serious illnesses
Diagnosed with health conditions
Frequency of exercising
Personal weight
Smoking habits
Health insurance

The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092363]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 244 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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ABC News "20/20" Fur Poll, March 1989 (ICPSR 9245)

Released/updated on: 2007-07-03

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1989-02-27--1989-03-28

This data collection explores respondents" attitudes and opinions about fur. Respondents were asked whether women dress to please themselves or others, if they personally owned fur clothing items or would like to own furs, if they were no longer wearing fur garments and why, if it irritated them to see someone wearing fur since animals had been killed to make it, and if there are circumstances when it is all right to kill an animal for its fur. Additionally, respondents were asked if they had heard anything about protests made by animal rights groups against killing animals to make fur coats, if they had felt social pressure not to wear fur, if they were concerned about animal rights groups confronting them when wearing fur, if they had ever been confronted by an animal rights group, and if anyone had ever sprayed their fur garments with paint in protest. Background information on respondents includes year of birth.

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Urban Morality Issues Incidents in Ten Cities, 1990-2000: [United States] (ICPSR 3735)

Released/updated on: 2005-12-15

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1990-01-01--2000-12-31

This collection consists of data that tracked how ten city governments in the United States responded to morality issues in the last decade of the 20th century. The ten cities varied in their geographic properties and were characterized by their locations, e.g., South City, Metro City, and Coast City. Morality issues were defined as issues concerning actions or behaviors that were regulated by a deeply held belief and/or a religious value. The issues falling within this categorization were gay rights, abortion rights, abortion clinic protests, needle exchange programs for drug users, hate speech, hate groups, gambling policies and regulations, animal rights, and regulations pertaining to the sex industry, which included pornography, prostitution, and adult entertainment. Incidents or events in the ten cities related to these moral issues were identified. The data were generated by scanning local newspapers to isolate and gather relevant information about the selected cities, interviewing political elites (e.g., mayor, city manager, and council person), and reviewing public government records for the selected cities. Part 1, Ten City Data, contains data on 451 incidents related to morality issues in the ten cities. Part 2, Subset of Ten City Data With City-Specific Variables, is a subset of the cases included in Part 1 and also includes a broader array of city-specific contextual variables. The variables shared by Part 1 and Part 2 are whether a city had a mayor or a city manager, whether city council elections were at-large or by district, the percentage or share of the city council elected by a particular district, the strength and prevalence of the city's homosexual community, the percentage of residents in the county who attended religious services, the percentage of residents in the county who identified themselves as Catholic or as religious fundamentalists, and whether activists involved with this issue were more likely to be from the left or right, politically. Additional shared variables are city population in 1990 and 1998 (in thousands), the percentage of population change between 1980-1990 and 1990-1998, the metro area population in 1990 (in thousands), the percentage of population change in the metro area from 1980-1990 and from 1990-1996, the percentage of female, Asian, White, Black, and Hispanic residents, the median household income, the percentage of married residents, the percentage of female-headed households, the 1997 unemployment rate, the percentage of same gender partnerships, the total number of churches, the number of churches per capita, the percentage of households with children under the age of 19, the percentage of the population aged 18-34, the percentage of residents that were college educated, income per capita, the percentage of foreign-born residents, the percentage of residents living in poverty, and the acceptability and prevalence of the city's "unconventional" or "counter" culture. The variables contained only in Part 2, Subset of Ten City Data With City-Specific Variables, are the type of community education present, the type of social culture in the community, the percentage of the work force employed in education or technology related jobs, the percentage of women in the work force, and the total number of churches in the county.