Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Poll: The Public's Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress, United States, 2013 (ICPSR 38382)

Version Date: Mar 10, 2022

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Principal Investigator(s):
Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS)

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38382.v1

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Summary

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This collection includes variable-level metadata of the 2013 poll The Public's Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress, a survey from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted by Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS). Topics covered in this survey include:

  • Most important Congressional issues
  • Role of government in health care system
  • One way to improve health care
  • When to work on budget deficit
  • Best way to reduce deficit
  • Support for program spending reductions
  • Support for deficit reduction proposals
  • View of 2010 healthcare law
  • Importance of government insurance programs to family
  • Medicare working well
  • Wealthier seniors paying higher premiums
  • Changes to Medicare to reduce deficit
  • Raising eligibility age
  • Need for Medicare reductions
  • Program cuts without increasing costs
  • State government priorities
  • Medicaid working well
  • State participation in Medicaid funding
  • Greatest health threats to Americans
  • Priorities of federal spending
  • Preventative care saving money in long run

The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092360]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 185 variables from this survey are available through the ICPSR social science variable database and can be accessed from the Variables tab.

Citation

Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS). Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Poll: The Public’s Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress, United States, 2013. Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [distributor], 2022-03-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38382.v1

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Funding

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Harvard University. School of Public Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

State

Distributor(s)

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
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Time Period(s)

2013

Date of Collection

2013-01-03 -- 2013-01-09

Data Collection Notes

  1. Please visit the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research website for more information on the 2013 The Public's Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress poll.
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Study Design

Telephone interviews were conducted in English and Spanish by Social Science Research Solutions on both landline (n=807) and cell phone (n=540, including 253 who had no landline telephone) samples generated through Marketing Systems Group's GENESYS sampling system. For the landline sample, respondents were selected by asking for the adult male or female with the most recent birthday currently at home based on a random rotation. If no one of that gender was available, interviewers asked to speak with a household member of the opposite gender. For the cell phone sample, interviews were conducted with the person who answered the phone.

Sample

The sample includes a nationally representative random sample of 1,347 national adults ages 18 and older.

Universe

National adult

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

The response rate for this study was 18% for the landline sample and 16% for the cell phone sample.

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Original Release Date

2022-03-10

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Weight

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 combined landline and cell phone sample was weighted to balance the sample demographics to match estimates for the national population data from the 2012 March Supplement of the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey, and to match current patterns of telephone use using data from the January - June 2012 National Health Interview Survey. The weight also takes into account the fact that respondents with both a landline and cell phone have a higher probability of selection in the combined sample, and also adjusts for the household size for the landline sample. All statistical tests of significance account for the effect of weighting.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

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This study is maintained and distributed by the Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA). HMCA is the official data archive of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.