Description & Citation--Study No. 4102

Bibliographic Description
Scope of Study
Methodology
Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:

4102

Persistent URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04102

Title:

Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly, Wave III, 1998-1999: [Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas]

Principal Investigator(s):

Kyriakos S. Markides, University of Texas Medical Branch

Funding Agency:

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging

Grant Number:

RO1 AG10939

Bibliographic Citation:

Markides, Kyriakos S. HISPANIC ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE ELDERLY, WAVE III, 1998-1999: [ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, NEW MEXICO, AND TEXAS] [Computer file]. ICPSR04102-v2. Galveston, TX: University of Texas, Medical Branch [producer], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-01-23.

Scope of Study

Summary:

This dataset comprises the second follow-up of the baseline Hispanic EPESE, HISPANIC ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE ELDERLY, 1993-1994: [ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, NEW MEXICO, AND TEXAS] (ICPSR 2851), and provides information on 1,980 of the original respondents. The Hispanic EPESE collected data on a representative sample of community-dwelling Mexican-American elderly, aged 65 years and older, residing in the five southwestern states of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. The primary purpose of the series was to provide estimates of the prevalence of key physical health conditions, mental health conditions, and functional impairments in older Mexican Americans and to compare these estimates with those for other populations. The Hispanic EPESE attempted to determine whether certain risk factors for mortality and morbidity operate differently in Mexican Americans than in non-Hispanic White Americans, African Americans, and other major ethnic groups. The public-use data cover background characteristics (age, sex, type of Hispanic race, income, education, marital status, number of children, employment, and religion), height, weight, social and physical functioning, chronic conditions, related health problems, health habits, self-reported use of dental, hospital, and nursing home services, and depression. The follow-ups provide a cross-sectional examination of the predictors of mortality, changes in health outcomes, and institutionalization and other changes in living arrangements, as well as changes in life situations and quality of life issues. The vital status of respondents from baseline to this round of the survey may be determined using the Vital Status file (Part 2). This file contains interview dates from the baseline as well as vital status at Wave III (respondent survived, date of death if deceased, proxy-assisted, proxy-true). The first follow-up of the baseline data (Hispanic EPESE Wave II, 1995-1996 [ICPSR 3385]) followed 2,438 of the original 3,050 respondents. Hispanic EPESE, ICPSR 2851, was modeled after the design of ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE ELDERLY, 1981-1993: [EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, IOWA AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES, IOWA, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, AND NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA] (ICPSR 9915) and ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE ELDERLY, 1996-1997: PIEDMONT HEALTH SURVEY OF THE ELDERLY, FOURTH IN-PERSON SURVEY [DURHAM, WARREN, VANCE, GRANVILLE, AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA] (ICPSR 2744).

Subject Term(s):

demographic characteristics, ethnicity, health behavior, health problems, health status, Hispanic Americans, life expectancy, living arrangements, mental health, Mexican Americans, mortality rates, older adults, population characteristics, quality of life

Geographic Coverage:

Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, United States

Time Period:

1998 - 1999

Date(s) of Collection:

August 1998 - July 1999

Universe:

Southwestern United States.

Data Type:

survey data

Methodology

Sample:

Multistage, stratified, probability sample.

Data Source:

personal interviews, questionnaires, and physical assessments

Response Rates:

82.9 percent

Presence of Common Scales:

Mini Mental Status Exam Scoring (MMSE), Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), ZARIT Caregiver Burden Scale, Performance Oriented Mobility Assessments (POMA's)

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.

Original ICPSR Release:

2004-11-05

Version History:

The last update of this study occurred on 2007-01-23.

2007-01-23 - The setup files have been updated.

2006-01-18 - File CB4102.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

Dataset(s):

DS1: Data
DS2: Vital Status
DS3: Resource Book of the Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly