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ABC News/Washington Post Hurricane Follow-Up Poll, September 2005 (ICPSR 4520)

Released/updated on: 2006-09-19

Geographic coverage: United States

This special topic poll, conducted September 9-11, 2005, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. The focus of this poll was to ascertain the feelings and opinions of respondents surveyed about Hurricane Katrina and the federal government's response to the events leading up to and after the hurricane. This poll, surveying a different sample of respondents, is a follow-up to a post-hurricane Katrina poll (ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST HURRICANE KATRINA POLL, SEPTEMBER 2005 [ICPSR 4519]) conducted earlier in the same month. Respondents were queried on the federal government's overall emergency preparedness plan, as well as the government's preparedness and response efforts during Hurricane Katrina in regard to delivering food, water, and medical help, recovering and identifying those who lost their lives, dealing with the oil supply and rising gasoline prices, evacuating and resettling people who had lost their homes, and clearing and repairing the hurricane and flood damage. A series of additional questions dealt with how the government should pay for the hurricane relief effort, whether the government's lack of preparedness in New Orleans was racially or socio-economically driven, and the call by Congress for a full-scale congressional investigation of the government's Hurricane Katrina preparedness and response efforts. Respondents were also asked whether they approved of the way George W. Bush was handling the presidency, the economy, the situation in Iraq, and the United States campaign on terrorism. Demographic variables include race, gender, age, level of education, employment status, income, political party affiliation, political philosophy, and religious affiliation.

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ABC News/Washington Post Poll, August 1993 (ICPSR 6283)

Released/updated on: 1997-05-16

Geographic coverage: United States

This poll is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Respondents were asked whether they approved of Bill Clinton's handling of his job as president and whether he was a strong and decisive leader. They were also asked to rate Clinton's handling of the nation's economy, foreign affairs, the federal budget deficit, and the federal response to the flooding in the Midwest. Those queried were also asked in detail about Clinton's economic plan -- specifically, whether they supported the increase in federal tax on gasoline and diesel fuel, the new federal tax rate on upper-income families, raising the tax on Social Security benefits, the increase in the federal business tax rate, and spending cuts in Medicare. Other topics included abortion, the situation in Serbia and Bosnia, and whether the respondent approved of United States airstrikes against Bosnian Serbs. The Roman Catholic Church was also a focus of this monthly survey, with specific questions on church policies and moral rules. Demographic background variables include political orientation, sex, age, race, income, and education.

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Community Engagement in Northeast Houston, Texas: Geospatial Results from a Household Survey on the Disaster Experiences of Northeast Houston, 2021-2022 (ICPSR 39119)

Released/updated on: 2024-09-25

Geographic coverage: United States, Texas, Houston

Time period: 2021-01-01--2022-01-01

This survey was conducted as part of the "Community Engagement in Southeast Texas: Pilot Project to Enhance Community Capacity and Flood Resilience" pilot project conducted by staff at the Gulf Research Program (GRP) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). Building on the lessons learned through previous community engagement efforts in Southeast Texas around flood risks, this project engaged communities in Northeast Houston to explore 1) how compounding events--specifically, flooding, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and Winter Storm Uri (2021)--increased vulnerability and risk to communities, 2) how to effectively communicate these risks to community members, and 3) how to better prepare for and mitigate these risks.

In partnership with West Street Recovery (WSR), Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG), and Research 4 Progress, the Gulf Research Program (GRP) and Resilient America Program (RAP) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) designed a household survey to investigate the flood-related experiences of residents from Northeast Houston using quantitative methods and probabilistic sampling. The survey, administered in December 2021-March 2022, also asked about residents' experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic and Winter Storm Uri to capture information about the compounding impacts of the pandemic and winter storm on existing flood disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.

Consultants from Research 4 Progress programmed the survey tool using Qualtrics XM, performed the survey deployment and conducted preliminary descriptive statistical analyses (e.g., descriptive statistics, cross-tabulations) of the survey data. The principal investigators then conducted an advanced statistical and geospatial analysis of the survey data. Analyses include: descriptive statistics; geocoding response using ArcGIS Pro; comparing "real" risk to perceived flood risk using a Flood Risk score created using inverse distance weighting and empirical Bayesian kriging; determining flood risk perception influence on protective action with classical and spatial regression models; and identifying risk communication preferences and types of services sought after varying types of disasters (i.e., flooding, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Winter Storm Uri) with Wilcoxon tests and contingency tables.

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Detroit Metro Area Communities Study (DMACS) Wave 21, Michigan, 2025 (ICPSR 39694)

Released/updated on: 2026-03-30

Geographic coverage: Detroit, United States, Michigan

Time period: 2025-01-13--2025-03-03

The Detroit Metro Area Communities Study (DMACS) is a panel survey of Detroit residents aged 18 and older. The original panel of respondents was drawn from an address-based probability sample of all occupied Detroit households in 2016 and has since been refreshed through additional address-based sampling annually. Between January 13, 2025 and March 3, 2025, 3,112 previously enrolled panelists were invited to participate in a self-administered online or interviewer-administered telephone survey.

Topics included: household composition; housing status; perceptions of neighborhood; political trust; challenges; homeownership; homeowner's insurance; stormwater management; flooding; mental health; employment.

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Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study (DNORPS) (ICPSR 29523)

Released/updated on: 2011-03-24

Geographic coverage: United States, Louisiana, New Orleans

Time period: 2005-08-01--2006-11-01

The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study was designed to examine the current location, well-being, and plans of people who lived in the city of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck on August 29, 2005. The study is based on a representative sample of pre-Katrina dwellings in New Orleans. Fieldwork focused on tracking respondents wherever they currently resided, including back to New Orleans. Respondents were administered a short paper-and-pencil interview by mail, by telephone, or in person. The pilot study was fielded in the fall of 2006, approximately one year after Hurricane Katrina. The goal of DNORPS was to assess the feasibility of the study design and thereby to lay the groundwork for launching a major longitudinal study of displaced New Orleans residents.

ICPSR only holds the public data for the pilot study. The main study (DNORS) was carried out 2009-2010. These data are not yet publicly available, but for more information, visit the RAND Corporation website.

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Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group Study [United States] (ICPSR 22325)

Released/updated on: 2010-06-10

Geographic coverage: Mississippi, United States, Louisiana, New Orleans, Alabama

Hurricane Katrina was the most destructive and costliest natural disaster to occur in the United States. Nearly 5 million people lived in the path of Katrina. An additional 1.3 million lived in the New Orleans metropolitan area at the time of the hurricane. Although not in the direct path of Katrina, New Orleans was devastated by a massive flood that occurred as a result. The purpose of this study is to inform policy-makers of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on survivors' physical and mental health and barriers to treatment, as well as assist in future natural disaster planning efforts. This will be achieved by monitoring, over time, a group of people who represent those affected by Katrina. The Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group consists of a broad cross-section of people affected by Katrina, including separate samples of people who resided in the New Orleans metropolitan area at the time of the hurricane and those who resided in the counties or parishes of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi that were in the path of the hurricane. Follow-up interviews conducted with the Advisory Group members to monitor the pace of recovery, as well as reports prepared for policy-makers, press releases, and digitally recorded oral histories are being posted on the Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group Web site as they become available. Demographic variables include gender, age, race, ethnicity, pre-hurricane residence (place), pre-hurricane type of housing (detached home, mobile home, apartment, etc.), pre-hurricane employment, family income, marital status, education, home ownership (owned with mortgage, owned without mortgage, rented, etc.), where the respondent lived at time of interview, religious preference, and religiosity.

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Katrina@10: Katrina Impacts on Vietnamese Americans in New Orleans (KATIVA NOLA) Subsample, Louisiana, 2005-2019 (ICPSR 39340)

Released/updated on: 2025-06-24

Geographic coverage: Mississippi, United States, Texas, Louisiana, New Orleans

Time period: 2005-01-01--2019-01-01

The NIH-funded Katrina@10 Program consists of an interrelated set of three primary data collection projects that focus on specific sub-populations who were uniquely affected by Hurricane Katrina: households along Louisiana and Mississippi's Gulf Coast, low-income parents from New Orleans, and Vietnamese families living in New Orleans. In addition, the program contains two secondary analyses of data that are more broadly representative of the overall affected population, and three cores (Administrative, Data Collection, Data Management and Dissemination) to support the set of research projects. The following research questions represent the studies together as a whole:

How well does the socio-ecological model of disaster recovery developed by the research team (Abramson et al. 2010) predict recovery across the three cohort studies?
How do trajectories of long-term recovery differ among and within these sub-populations?
How do the trajectories of recovery compare to those of mainstream populations?
How do the effects of predisposing factors (such as poverty) and degree-of-impact (such as flooding depth) vary among the three sub-populations?
How do interpretations of the disaster, resilience, and recovery differ among respondents?
What are the determinants of long-term recovery in domains such as mental and physical health, socio-economic status, and community and social roles? How are these domains related to each other across individuals and across sub-populations?

The Katrina Impacts on Vietnamese Americans in New Orleans (KATIVA NOLA) study was a longitudinal study interested in measuring the impact of Hurricane Katrina on Vietnamese-Americans living in New Orleans. The original sample was taken in summer 2005 and was followed by three rounds of short and medium-term data collection in the 5 years following Katrina. This study measured a variety of outcomes, including physical and mental health, economic stability, housing stability, and social ties, to examine the long-term recovery trajectories of participants.

The data in this collection are from an additional, long-term follow-up survey conducted between 2017 and 2019. A public-use version (DS1) and restricted-use version (DS2) are available. Open-ended responses, continuous respondent age, continuous total household income, and a variable indicating exposure to specific flood events have been masked in the public-use version. These items are available in the restricted-use version.

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National Survey of Disaster Experiences and Preparedness (NSDEP), 2007-2008 (ICPSR 34891)

Released/updated on: 2014-03-25

Geographic coverage: New York City, District of Columbia, United States, Los Angeles

Time period: 2001-09-11--2008-02-13

The National Survey of Disaster Experiences and Preparedness (NSDEP), 2007-2008 examined public preparedness, mitigation, avoidance actions, intended actions and perceptions of major hazards with an emphasis on the hazards created by terrorism. Telephone interviews were conducted with 3300 United States residents between April 13, 2007 and February 13, 2008. Information was collected on topics such as terrorism, the government, knowledge about terrorism, and disaster/emergency planning and preparedness. Demographic and background variables included marital status, household composition, age, gender, education, country of birth, ethnicity, employment status, and income.

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North Dakota Health Insurance Survey, 1998 (ICPSR 3313)

Released/updated on: 2024-02-14

Geographic coverage: United States, Grand Forks, North Dakota

The objectives of this survey were (1) to determine who the uninsured were in North Dakota, (2) to show how the 1997 flood affected Grand Forks and other Red River Valley residents, (3) to provide information to help government and private industry respond to the needs of disaster survivors, and (4) to update the results of the 1993 health care survey conducted under the State Initiatives in Health Care Reform Program (ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION EMPLOYER HEALTH INSURANCE SURVEY, 1993 [ICPSR 6908] and ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION FAMILY HEALTH INSURANCE SURVEY, 1993 [ICPSR 6894]). The interview collected information on household composition, health insurance status for each member of the household, impact of the flood, and demographic characteristics such as employment status, age, sex, and income. All households with at least one uninsured individual were administered a needs assessment module to collect more detailed information on health care coverage, utilization, and needs, as well as additional demographic information. Data are presented at the person level and the "family insurance unit" (FIU) level, a grouping typically used by insurance carriers. A FIU comprises an adult household member, his or her spouse, if any, and any dependent children 0-17 years of age, or 18-22 years of age if unmarried full-time students.