DOI: 10.3886/icpsr34641.v1
title: National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (FHWAR), 1996
title: Version 1

description: The National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (FHWAR) is a series conducted by the Census Bureau for the United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service. This collection contains information regarding fishing, hunting, and other wildlife-associated activities for 1996. The survey is conducted every 5 years and includes 3 waves. Wave 1 is household-based and consists of a screener with the possibility of detailed interviews asking about a person's hunting, fishing or wildlife-watching activities and the likelihood that they will hunt, fish or watch wildlife. Wave 2 and Wave 3 are person-based, detailed interviews in which respondents were selected for the sample based on data collected from the screener in the first wave. The Sportsman and Wildlife-Watching surveys for wave 2 and 3 gathered specific information about respondents' recreational participation, including species hunted, fished, and watched; the state in which these activities occurred; number of trips taken; days of participation; and expenditures for food, lodging, transportation, and equipment. The questions asked throughout the 3 waves have been organized by topic into 3 datasets. The three datasets, (1) Screening, (2) Sportsman (Fishing and Hunting), and (3) Wildlife Watching, may contain responses from people surveyed during multiple waves. Demographic variables include sex, age, race, marital status and parental relations, education level, household income, state of residence, and type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural).
description: The purpose of the FHWAR Survey is to gather information on the number of anglers, hunters, and wildlife-watchers in the United States as well as about the activities they participate in, how often they participate, and how much they spend on these activities.
description: The data contains a weight variable for each dataset that should be used when analyzing the data. Please refer to the "Original P.I. Documentation" section in ICPSR Codebook for information on weights.
description: 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: Created variable labels and/or value labels.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: Screening 
 DS2: Sportsman (Fishing and Hunting) 
 DS3: Wildlife Watching
description: National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (FHWAR) Series
description: computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI), computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) 
 Additional information on the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (FHWAR) Series can be found at the United States Census Bureau Web site.
description: Persons 16 years and older residing in the United States. Smallest Geographic Unit: state
description: Please refer to the "Original P.I. Documentation" section in ICPSR Codebook for information on sampling.