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Description & Citation--Study No. 6838

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:6838
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06838
 
Title:Alameda County [California] Health and Ways of Living Study, 1974 Panel
 
Principal Investigator(s):George A. Kaplan
 
Funding Agency:National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging
 
Grant Number:5 R37 AG11375-03
 
Bibliographic Citation:Kaplan, George A. ALAMEDA COUNTY [CALIFORNIA] HEALTH AND WAYS OF LIVING STUDY, 1974 PANEL [Computer file]. ICPSR06838-v2. Berkeley, CA: Human Population Laboratory, California Dept. of Health Services [producer], 1974. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-01-31.
 

Scope of Study

Summary:These data constitute the second wave of a survey designed to study the influence of health practices and social relationships on the physical and mental health of a typical sample of the population. The first wave (HEALTH AND WAYS OF LIVING STUDY, 1965 PANEL [ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA] [ICPSR 6688]) collected information for 6,928 respondents (including approximately 500 women aged 65 years and older) on chronic health conditions, health behaviors, social involvements, and psychological characteristics. The 1974 questionnaire was sent to 6,246 living subjects who had responded in 1965, and were able to be located. A total of 4,864 individuals responded in 1974. Questions were asked on marital and life satisfaction, parenting, physical activities, employment, and childhood experiences. Demographic information on age, race, height, weight, education, income, and religion was also collected. Included with this dataset is a separate file (Part 2) containing mortality data for respondents who died between the 1965 and 1974 panels, and information on nonrespondents.
 
Subject Term(s):chronic illnesses, health behavior, mental health, physical condition, population characteristics, psychological wellbeing, social life
 
Geographic Coverage:California, United States
 
Time Period:1974
 
Date(s) of Collection:November 1973 - August 1974
 
Universe:Households in Alameda County, California.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) See the codebook for a listing of publications related to this study as provided by the Human Population Laboratory. (2) The machine-readable documentation (which includes the data collection instrument) is provided as a Portable Documentation Format (PDF) file.
 

Methodology

Sample:A nine-year follow-up of the respondents to the 1965 survey, which consisted of a stratified random sample of Alameda County households with noninstitutionalized residents aged 21 or older, or aged 16-21 and older if married.
 
Data Source:self-enumerated questionnaires
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Restrictions:ICPSR obtained these data from the Human Population Laboratory under the agreement that the data are for the sole use of ICPSR and may not be sold or provided to third parties outside the ICPSR membership, and that these data are not to be used for any commercial purpose. Users are reminded that, per ICPSR Bylaws, data and other materials provided by ICPSR are to be used solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations. Each member institution gives assurance that such uses of statistical data will conform to widely accepted standards of practice and legal restrictions that are intended to protect the confidentiality of research subjects.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1997-01-22
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2008-01-31.
 
  2008-01-31 - The data have been reformatted and the setup files updated.
 
  2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 3 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: 1974 Data
  • DS2: 1965-1974 Mortality and Response Data
 

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