Description & Citation--Study No. 6438 | | | ICPSR Study No.: | 6438 |
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Persistent URL:
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| | | Title: | Americans' Changing Lives: Waves I and II, 1986 and 1989 |
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| | | Principal Investigator(s): | James S. House |
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| | | Funding Agency: | National Institute on Aging. |
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| | | Grant Number: | P01 AG05561 |
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| | | Bibliographic Citation: | House, James S. AMERICANS' CHANGING LIVES: WAVES I AND II, 1986 AND 1989 [Computer file]. ICPSR06438-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Survey Research Center [producer], 1994. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06438 |
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| | | | Summary: | This study is part of a larger research program designed to
investigate (1) the ways in which a wide range of activities and
social relationships that people engage in are broadly "productive,"
(2) how individuals adapt to acute life events and chronic stresses
that threaten the maintenance of health, effective functioning, and
productive activity, and (3) sociocultural variations in the nature,
meaning, determinants, and consequences of productive activity and
relationships. Focusing especially on differences between Black and
white Americans in middle and late life, these data constitute both
the first and second waves in a national longitudinal panel survey
covering a wide range of sociological, psychological, mental, and
physical health items. Among the topics covered are interpersonal
relationships (spouse/partner, children, parents, friends), sources
and levels of satisfaction, social interactions and leisure
activities, traumatic life events (physical assault, serious illness,
divorce, death of a loved one, financial or legal problems),
perceptions of retirement, health behaviors (smoking, alcohol
consumption, overweight, rest), and utilization of health care (doctor
visits, hospitalization, nursing home institutionalization, bed
days). Also included are measures of physical health, psychological
well-being, and indices referring to cognitive functioning. Background
information provided for individuals includes household composition,
number of children and grandchildren, employment status, occupation
and work history, income, family financial situation, religious
beliefs and practices, ethnicity, race, education, sex, and region of
residence. |
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| | | Subject Term(s): | African Americans, health, health behavior, health care utilization, hospitalization, institutional care, leisure, life events, mental health, physical condition, psychological wellbeing, retirement, social interaction, social life, White Americans |
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| | | Geographic Coverage: | United States |
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| | | Data Type: | survey data |
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| | | Data Collection Notes: | (1) This data collection incorporates data from the
first wave of this survey (AMERICANS' CHANGING LIVES: WAVE I, 1986
[ICPSR 9267]) (ACLI), with data from a second wave carried out in
1989. Slight changes have been made in some Wave I variables in this
updated version of the data. These changes were made primarily to take
into account new information that was obtained during the second wave
of interviewing. Past users of ACLI should compare this new version of
the ACLI variables with the earlier version, to check for possible
changes in variable distributions before proceeding with analyses
involving ACLI variables. |
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| | | | Sample: | For Wave I, a multistage stratified area probability
sample with oversampling of Blacks and those 60 years of age and over
was used. For Wave II, an attempt was made to contact all the
respondents from Wave I (N = 3,617). The cases responding to Wave II
numbered 2,867. |
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| | | Data Source: | personal interviews |
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| | | Extent of Processing: | DDEF.ICPSR/ MDATA.PR/ SCAN/ REFORM.DOC |
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| | | | 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. |
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| | | Restrictions: | To preserve respondent confidentiality, certain
identifying variables are restricted from general dissemination.
Aggregations of this information for statistical purposes that
preserve the confidentiality of individual respondents can be obtained
from ICPSR in accordance with existing servicing policies. |
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| | | Original ICPSR Release: | 1995-03-16 |
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| | | Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 1997-11-04. |
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| 1997-11-04 - The codebook and data collection instruments are
being released as PDF files, and the SAS and SPSS data definition
statements have undergone minor editing. |
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| | | Dataset(s): | - DS1: Data File
- DS2: SAS Data Definition Statements
- DS3: Data Collection Instrument for Wave I (PDF)
- DS4: Codebook (PDF)
- DS5: Data Collection Instrument for Wave II (PDF)
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