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ABC News Hurricane Katrina Anniversary Poll, August 2006 (ICPSR 4664)

Released/updated on: 2007-12-18

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

This special topic poll, conducted August 14-20, 2006, is part of a continuing series of monthly polls that solicit public opinion on various political and social issues. The focus of this data collection was on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Part 1, FEMA Counties, contains data from a sample of 501 adults living in counties in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama that were designated as Hurricane Katrina disaster areas. Part 2, Orleans Parish Including Oversamples, contains data on respondents living in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, including oversamples of 160 respondents contacted via landline telephones, and 120 respondents contacted via cell phones. Respondents were asked to rate the recovery efforts of federal, state, and local governments with respect to Hurricane Katrina, and how much trust and confidence they had in the federal government and the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) ability to respond to another disaster. Opinions were collected on whether Hurricane Katrina was the result of global climate change or just a severe weather event. Information was collected about the damage caused to respondents' residence and personal property, as well as the severity of the damage, how much of the losses were insured, and whether recovery had already occurred. Respondents were asked to rate the impact Hurricane Katrina had had on their life, whether they suffered a long-term negative impact on their finances, health, and emotional well-being, and whether any friends or family members were seriously injured or killed as as a result of the hurricane. A series of questions asked respondents to rate the job of groups involved with assisting recovery, such as the the United States Small Business Administration, state relief agencies, and insurance companies. Views were sought concerning whether respondents' trust in the government and fellow man was affected by the hurricane, how much they worried about another hurricane occurring, and how much extra stress was created by the possibility of another hurricane. Additional topics addressed whether race and poverty affected the recovery effort, and whether problems with the relief effort were an indication of racial inequality in the United States. Demographic variables include sex, age, race, education level, household income, political party affiliation, political philosophy, employment status, marital status, and type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural).

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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 Hurricane Katrina Poll, September 2005 (ICPSR 4519)

Released/updated on: 2007-03-08

Geographic coverage: United States

This special topic poll fielded September 2, 2005, was undertaken to assess respondents' opinions on Hurricane Katrina and the governmental response. Respondents were asked whether or not they approved of President Bush's and the federal government's response to the aftermath of the hurricane and whether or not they felt the state, local, and national governments were adequately prepared for this or other potential disasters. Respondents were also queried on their opinion on the deployment of National Guard troops, and if the city should be rebuilt on the same location. The survey also included questions on gas prices and whether or not oil companies were taking advantage of the situation from the hurricane. Demographic information included political affiliation, age, race, and sex.

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ABC News/Washington Post Poll #1, June 2006 (ICPSR 4661)

Released/updated on: 2007-11-30

Geographic coverage: United States

This poll, conducted June 22-25, 2006, is part of a continuing series of monthly polls that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Respondents were asked whether they approved of the way President George W. Bush was handling the presidency and issues such as the economy and the situation in Iraq. Several questions asked which political party respondents trusted to handle the main problems the country would face in the next few years, whether they would vote for a Democrat or Republican candidate if the November 2006 election for the United States House of Representatives were being held that day, and which issue was most important in their vote. Views were sought on the war in Iraq and whether it had improved the lives of the Iraqi people, encouraged democracy in other Arab nations, and contributed to the long-term security of the United States. Respondents were polled on whether the Bush Administration and the Democrats in the United States Congress had a clear plan for handling the situation in Iraq, how well the United States campaign against terrorism was going, whether the country was safer from terrorism than before September 11, 2001, and whether President Bush would be remembered more for the United States campaign against terrorism or the war in Iraq. A series of questions asked respondents whether they approved of the way United States military forces in Iraq were doing their job, whether a deadline should be set for their withdrawal from Iraq, and respondents' reactions to the alleged killings of Iraqi civilians by United States military forces. Additional topics addressed the death penalty, the federal government's detention of suspected terrorists without trial in the United States military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the federal government's progress in its efforts to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Demographic variables include sex, age, race, education level, household income, political party affiliation, political philosophy, voter registration status, religious preference, and whether respondents considered themselves born-again or evangelical Christians.

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Adversity and Resilience After Hurricane Katrina (ICPSR 35900)

Released/updated on: 2015-06-03

Geographic coverage: United States, New Orleans

This project collects data to examine how a group of low-income parents from New Orleans, most of whom are single African American women, have coped with the effects of Hurricane Katrina. The 1,019 low-income parents in the sample are part of a randomized intervention, which was started before Hurricane Katrina, and provides pre-hurricane information on the health, social networks, and economic status of members of the treatment and control groups. This project conducts one post-hurricane follow-up survey and set of qualitative interviews, and collects another wave of data shortly after the three-year anniversary of the hurricane.

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CBS News Monthly Poll #1, September 2005 (ICPSR 4399)

Released/updated on: 2007-02-14

Geographic coverage: United States

This poll, fielded September 6-7, 2005, is part of a continuing series of monthly polls that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other social and political issues. Respondents were asked to give their opinions of President George W. Bush and his handling of the presidency and issues such as the situation in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina. Those polled identified the most important problem facing the country, and they expressed their level of confidence in the federal government to protect the country against terrorism and respond to natural disasters. Views were sought on how well federal, state and local government officials prepared for and responded to Hurricane Katrina, who was to blame for the disaster, and whether race and National Guard deployment in Iraq were factors in the government's response. Other questions asked whether the looting and violence in New Orleans in the days following Hurricane Katrina were understandable, whether New Orleans would ever be a working city again, and how well the media covered the hurricane and its aftermath. Respondents were also asked whether they had ever visited New Orleans, whether they or someone they knew was directly affected by Hurricane Katrina, and whether a member of their household made a charitable donation to the victims. Additional topics addressed gasoline prices and availability after the hurricane, United States troop levels in Iraq, whether the United States Senate should confirm United States Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, and how often respondents watched network television news programs. Demographic variables included sex, age, race, marital status, household income, education level, religious preference, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), political party affiliation, political philosophy, voter registration status, and for whom the respondent voted in the 2004 presidential election.

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CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #5, October 2004 (ICPSR 4228)

Released/updated on: 2007-09-06

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2004-10-21--2004-10-25

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 to give their opinions of the 2004 presidential campaign and the candidates, and the way George W. Bush was handling certain issues such as the economy, prescription drug costs, the war in Iraq, and terrorism. Respondents were also asked about their opinions of both George W. Bush and John Kerry and which candidate they favored in the election. The survey also included questions about various issues of the campaign such as health care and social security, their opinions of Governor Jeb Bush and the Florida economy, and government response to hurricanes. Background information on respondents includes union membership, military service, voter registration status, party identification, marital status, sex, religious preference, education record, age, ethnicity, and income.

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CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll, June 2010 (ICPSR 31576)

Released/updated on: 2011-10-04

Geographic coverage: United States

This poll, fielded June 16-20, 2010, is a part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on a range of political and social issues. A national sample of 1,259 adults was surveyed, including an oversample of Gulf Coast residents. Respondents were asked whether they approved of the way that Barack Obama was handling his job as president, the economy, and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, whether they approved of the way Congress was handling its job, whether they thought the country was headed in the right direction, and what they thought was the most important problem facing the country. Respondents were queried on how they would rate the condition of the national economy, whether they thought Obama had strong qualities of leadership, whether they though he had a strong plan for creating jobs, developing new sources of energy, and dealing with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and how much confidence they had in Obama's ability to handle a crisis. Respondents were also asked how much they thought Obama cared about the needs and problems of people whose lives had been directly affected by the oil spill, whether they favored allowing increased drilling for oil and natural gas off the United States coast, whether they thought the United States was too dependent on other countries for its supply of oil, their views on government regulation of oil companies, whether they would favor increased taxes on gasoline if it could help pay for the development of renewable sources of energy, and how likely they thought that in the next 25 years the United States would develop an alternative to oil. Respondents were queried on how much they trusted oil companies to act in the best interest of the public, whether they approved of the way BP was handling the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, how much control they thought the Obama Administration had over whether BP would pay for the damages caused by the oil spill, how confident they were that BP would fairly compensate those affected by the oil spill, how much they blamed weak federal regulations on offshore drilling for the oil spill in the Gulf, how long they thought it would take BP to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf, and why they thought it was taking so long to stop. Respondents were also asked who they thought was mostly to blame for the oil spill, who they trusted more to handle the clean-up of the oil spill, BP or the federal government, whether they thought that BP was doing all it reasonably could do to clean up the oil spill, whether they though that members of the Obama Administration and BP were telling the truth about the oil spill, whether they thought that the wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico could recover from the oil spill, and whether they thought that the economy in the Gulf coast could recover from the oil spill. Information was collected on whether respondents thought that the moratorium on offshore drilling was a good idea, whether they themselves or a member of their family was directly or indirectly affected by the oil spill, whether they were directly affected by Hurricane Katrina, whether they would be less likely to buy gasoline from a BP station as a result of the oil spill, whether they had to change their vacation plans due to the oil spill, and whether they or someone in their household worked in the oil or fishing industry. Finally, respondents were asked if they watched or listened to President Obama's speech about the oil spill, how they would rate their household's financial situation, and how concerned they were that they or someone else in the household might lose their job in the next 12 months. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, marital status, education level, household income, employment status, religious preference, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), political party affiliation, political philosophy, voter registration status, and whether respondents thought of themselves as born again Christians.

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CBS News/Vanity Fair Monthly Poll #2, August 2010 (ICPSR 32503)

Released/updated on: 2012-02-15

Geographic coverage: United States

This poll, fielded August 20-24, 2010, solicited respondents' opinion on how Barack Obama was handling the office of president, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the economy, and terrorism, whether Congress is handling their job well, their opinions of Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama, whether war causalities were worth the cost of attacking Iraq, and what was the most important problem facing the United States. Respondents were also asked whether they feel that the terror threat was reduced by the Iraq and the Afghanistan wars, whether they thought the economy had improved, their estimate of how long the recession might last. Respondents were also queried about Islam, World Trade Center, tax cuts, hurricane Katrina, rebuilding New Orleans, federal help to Katrina cities and who bore responsibility for the recession. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, education level, household income, marital status, religious preference, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), political party affiliation, political philosophy, and voter registration status and participation history.

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CTDA 1027: Posttraumatic Stress in Children Age 7 to 12 After Hurricane, United States, 1992-1993 (ICPSR 39338)

Released/updated on: 2025-06-02

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1992-01-01--1993-01-01

The aims of this study were to describe the course of posttraumatic stress responses in children after exposure to a hurricane and to examine potential predictors of child outcomes.

Three months after a major hurricane, the study enrolled students in grades three to five (age 7 to 12) in local schools. At the initial (3 month) assessment, children reported on specific hurricane-related trauma exposures, posttraumatic stress and anxiety symptoms, coping, and social support; at 7 months and 10 months post-hurricane, children reported on posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and coping.

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CTDA 1035: Posttraumatic Stress in Children Age 8 to 16 and Their Parents After Hurricane, United States, 2005-2008 (ICPSR 39322)

Released/updated on: 2025-06-18

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2005-01-01--2008-01-01

The overall objective of this study was to examine trajectories and predictors of posttraumatic stress and depression in children and parents after a major hurricane, with a particular focus on hurricane exposure and on parenting variables that might be amenable to intervention.

Three months after the hurricane, the study enrolled students in grades four through eight (age 8 to 16) in local schools and invited parent participation, and conducted assessments at four time points post-hurricane. Children reported on prior violence exposure and hurricane-related trauma exposure, and on posttraumatic stress, coping, social support; and parents reported on child behavior as well as their own posttraumatic stress and other mental health symptoms, coping, and parenting practices. (Note: The current dataset does not include measures of parenting practices.)

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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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Galveston Bay Recovery Study, 2008-2010 (ICPSR 34801)

Released/updated on: 2016-06-21

Geographic coverage: United States, Texas, Galveston

Time period: 2008-01-01--2010-01-01

The Galveston Bay Recovery Study (GBRS) was designed to study trajectories of wellness after Hurricane Ike hit the Galveston Bay area on September 13, 2008. The sample included adults who were living in Galveston County or Chambers County, Texas at the time of the hurricane, not just those who remained in the area after the hurricane, who may have been less affected by the storm. Three interviews were conducted approximately 2-5, 5-9, and 14-18 months after the hurricane, respectively. Information was obtained on experiences during Hurricane Ike, lifetime traumatic events, and mental health and functioning before and after the hurricane, as well as between survey waves (including assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and suicidality). Demographic variables include race/ethnicity, age, education, marital status, number of children/offspring, income, and employment status.

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Hurricane Andrew: Its Impact on Law and Social Control [Florida, 1992] (ICPSR 22629)

Released/updated on: 2009-06-19

Geographic coverage: United States, Florida, Miami

This data collection examines the degree of concensus/dissensus concerning ideal and actual priorities of policing during the breakdown of formal social control directly following Hurricane Andrew in Miami, Florida. Both citizens of the damaged neighborhoods and the attending police were nonrandomly surveyed using semistructured interviews. A small sample of students were also interviewed.

Residents were asked about what happened to their neighborhood, their home, themselves, and their family before, during, and immediately after the hurricane, and in the time since the hurricane. Questions focused on precautions taken before the hurricane to guard against the storm's impact, the effects of the storm on families, the occurrence of crime and violence following the hurricane, and the actions taken by the police and military to maintain order after the storm.

Police were asked about disaster training, termination of department services during the storm, crime frequency in the aftermath of the storm, and the effectiveness of their police departments in dealing with crime immediately after the hurricane. Police were also asked about the origin of people (e.g., local vs. nonlocal) arrested for "hurricane related" crimes, such as looting.

Both citizens and police were asked to make two ratings of various police activities: (1) how much time they thought police actually spent on that activity, and (2) what priority should have been given to that activity. Respondents were then asked to reconstruct these considerations for the first day, first week (days 2-7), second and third weeks, and first month after the hurricane, as well as at the time of the survey (which was at least two months after the hurricane).

Students were asked questions concerning their family and the family's neighborhood, preparations for the hurricane, victimization experiences, formal/informal social controls prior to and after the hurricane, and the disruption/re-establishment of routines in family and neighborhood life after the event.

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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: Gulf Coast Child and Family Health Study (GCAFH) Subsample, Louisiana and Mississippi, 2005-2019 (ICPSR 39339)

Released/updated on: 2025-06-23

Geographic coverage: Mississippi, United States, Louisiana

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?

This collection contains data from the Gulf Coast Child and Family Health Study (GCAFH), a longitudinal cohort study of families living in the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast who had been displaced or sustained extensive household damage due to Hurricane Katrina. The GCAFH research team collected survey data from the initial cohort in 2006 (n=1,079) with multiple follow-ups through 2010, assessing post-disaster recovery via indicators such as economic recovery, social engagement, personal resilience, community cohesion, infrastructure stability, and physical and mental health.

The data in this collection is from the most recent survey follow-up with participants, conducted between 2016 and 2018. A public-use version (DS1) and restricted-use version (DS2) are available. Open-ended responses, continuous respondent age, continuous total household income, and a 7-category race variable have been masked in the public-use version. These items are available in the restricted-use version.

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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

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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Katrina@10: Resilience in Survivors of Katrina Project (RISK) Subsample, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005-2019 (ICPSR 39335)

Released/updated on: 2025-05-27

Geographic coverage: United States, 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?

This collection contains data from the Resilience in Survivors of Katrina (RISK) Project, which was a longitudinal study of low-income parents who lived in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina (August 2005). The initial study design was intended to increase educational attainment among college students, measuring economic status, social ties, and mental and physical health starting in 2003 (initial cohort n=1,019). However, with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the research design evolved to study the consequences of a disaster for the lives of vulnerable individuals and their families. Follow-up surveys and in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with participants at one year and five years post-Katrina, regardless of where participants lived.

The data in this collection is from the most recent survey follow-up with RISK Project participants (n=716), conducted between 2016 and 2018. A public-use version (DS1) and restricted-use version (DS2) are available. Open-ended responses and continuous variables for respondent age and total household income 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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Washington Post Florida Statewide Election Poll, October 2004 (ICPSR 4144)

Released/updated on: 2005-03-25

Geographic coverage: United States, Florida

This special topic poll, which 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, asked Floridian respondents questions about their voting inclinations for the 2004 presidential race and the 2004 Florida United States Senate election. With respect to the presidential race, respondents were asked their likelihood of voting, for whom they would vote if elections were being held that day, and the likelihood of changing their vote. Respondents were also asked which presidential candidate -- George W. Bush or John Kerry -- would do a better job handling specific issues (e.g., the economy, Iraq, immigration issues with Latin America), which of those issues was the single most important issue in the vote for president, and which presidential candidate -- again Bush or Kerry -- would understand the problems of people like the respondent, would be a strong leader, could be trusted in a crisis, was a likable person, and do a better job coping with the main problems facing the nation over the next few years. Additional questions polled respondents on their approval or disapproval of the way George W. Bush was handling his job as president and the way Jeb Bush was handling his job as governor of Florida. Respondents were also asked about the nation's economy, how things were financially for them and their family compared to a year ago, their satisfaction level with the way the federal government responded to the impacts of hurricanes Charley, Frances, and Ivan in Florida, if the government's response to those hurricanes would impact respondents' potential to vote for George W. Bush, and whether they approved or disapproved of re-establishing diplomatic trade relations with Cuba. With respect to the Florida United States Senate election, respondents were asked for whom they would vote if elections were being held that day. Further questions asked respondents if they voted in the 2000 presidential elections, whether they were confident votes would be counted accurately, whether vote miscounts were honest mistakes or deliberate miscounts to help one candidate win, and which candidate would benefit most from the miscounting of votes. Background information includes voter registration, political party affiliation, religious affiliation, sex, number of children living in the household, education, age, race, language of interview, marital status, income, and Hispanic origin.