Michigan Metro Area Communities Study (MIMACS) Wave 3, Flint, Michigan, 2024 (ICPSR 39834)
Version Date: Aug 18, 2026 View help for published
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Elisabeth Gerber, University of Michigan;
Jeffrey Morenoff, University of Michigan;
Mara Ostfeld, University of Michigan
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39834.v1
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The Michigan Metro Area Communities Study (MIMACS) is a panel survey of select Michigan communities residents aged 18 and older. Flint is one of the communities included in MIMACS. The initial survey in Flint was conducted in 2022 and the sample was drawn from an address-based probability sample of all occupied Flint households. The 3rd survey wave, collected between January 15 - March 18, 2024, researchers invited 823 previously enrolled panelists and 1,554 invitations to a randomly selected address-based refreshment sample of Flint households to participate in a self-administered online or interviewer-administered telephone survey. Survey topics included: Household Composition, Residence and Housing Status; Health, Social Determinants of Health, Long COVID, Mental Health; Disability; Perceptions of Neighborhood; Transportation Mode; Financial Precarity; Perception of Control; Voting; Employment; Demographics.
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This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, this data collection is restricted from general dissemination. To obtain this file, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement in accordance with existing ICPSR servicing policies.
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Data Collection Notes View help for Data Collection Notes
- For additional information, please visit the MIMACS website.
Study Purpose View help for Study Purpose
The Michigan Metro Area Communities Study (MIMACS) seeks to assist Michigan communities making important decisions about community investments and public policy by conducting periodic surveys of adult residents of the area.
Study Design View help for Study Design
Surveys were self-administered online or interviewer-administered via telephone between January 15, 2024 and March 18, 2024. All respondents who completed the survey received an incentive (e.g., check or gift card) via mail from the University of Michigan.
Mail recruitment: All households were sent invitation letters and/or reminder postcards providing information regarding the survey, a unique access code to complete the survey online, a phone number to call to complete the survey with an interviewer, and information regarding post-paid incentives.
Email and text recruitment: Existing panel respondents were contacted by email and/or text, with the message including a clickable individualized URL. Up to three emails and/or texts were sent over the course of the data collection period.
Survey administration: On January 15, as part of a soft launch, invitations were sent by text to 50 established panelists who had completed previous MIMACS Flint surveys early in the field period. The full launch occurred during the week of January 15-19, 2024; all remaining panelists were sent a letter invitation, and those who had previously provided email or texting contact information were sent an invitation via email and/or text.
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Panelists were first recruited to the MIMACS Flint Panel in 2022 (Wave 1) from a stratified random address-based sample of Flint household addresses. The panel is refreshed for this survey (Wave 3, 2024), based on the following strata:
- All records with a Hispanic Surname or Hispanic Ethnic Group Code
- All records with an African American Ethnic Group Code
- All remaining records within the geographic footprint
There are currently 823 active panelists in the MIMACS Flint panel. Panelists are able to unenroll from the panel at any time. There were some incidents where we decided to drop the respondents from the panel, for example, when they were verbally abusive toward our staff or when they attempted to fill out multiple surveys under false identification.
Please see the P.I. methodology documentation for more detail.
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Universe View help for Universe
Adults over the age of 18 who reside in the City of Flint.
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Description of Variables View help for Description of Variables
The data includes variables about the following topics:
- housing composition and status
- physical and mental health
- disabilities
- neighborhood satisfaction
- transportation
- finances
- voting
- employment
- conspiracy thinking and trust
- demographics, including gender, race, sexuality, and languages spoken
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The study had an overall response rate of 31.5% (using AAPOR Response Rate 1). The response rate was 57.8% for existing panelists and 16.8% for new panelists.
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Likert-type scales and dichotomous scales were used.
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2026-08-18
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2026-08-18 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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