DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38382.v1
title: Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Poll: The Public's Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress, United States, 2013
title: Version 1

description: This catalog record includes detailed variable-level descriptions, enabling data discovery and comparison. The data are not archived at ICPSR. Users should consult the data owners (via the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research) directly for details on obtaining the data. This collection includes variable-level metadata of the 2013 poll The Public's Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress, a survey from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted by Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS). Topics covered in this survey include: Most important Congressional issuesRole of government in health care systemOne way to improve health careWhen to work on budget deficitBest way to reduce deficitSupport for program spending reductionsSupport for deficit reduction proposalsView of 2010 healthcare lawImportance of government insurance programs to familyMedicare working wellWealthier seniors paying higher premiumsChanges to Medicare to reduce deficit Raising eligibility age Need for Medicare reductionsProgram cuts without increasing costs State government priorities Medicaid working wellState participation in Medicaid funding Greatest health threats to AmericansPriorities of federal spendingPreventative care saving money in long run The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092360]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 185 variables from this survey are available through the ICPSR social science variable database and can be accessed from the Variables tab.
description: Telephone interviews were conducted in English and Spanish by Social Science Research Solutions on both landline (n=807) and cell phone (n=540, including 253 who had no landline telephone) samples generated through Marketing Systems Group's GENESYS sampling system. For the landline sample, respondents were selected by asking for the adult male or female with the most recent birthday currently at home based on a random rotation. If no one of that gender was available, interviewers asked to speak with a household member of the opposite gender. For the cell phone sample, interviews were conducted with the person who answered the phone.
description: The study dataset contains weight factors that should be employed in any data analysis. Typically weights are used in an attempt to assure that the survey sample more accurately represents the population. The weight variable in this study is WEIGHT.The combined landline and cell phone sample was weighted to balance the sample demographics to match estimates for the national population data from the 2012 March Supplement of the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey, and to match current patterns of telephone use using data from the January - June 2012 National Health Interview Survey. The weight also takes into account the fact that respondents with both a landline and cell phone have a higher probability of selection in the combined sample, and also adjusts for the household size for the landline sample. All statistical tests of significance account for the effect of weighting.
description: Response Rates: The response rate for this study was 18% for the landline sample and 16% for the cell phone sample.
description: The sample includes a nationally representative random sample of 1,347 national adults ages 18 and older.
description: Datasets: DS1: Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Poll: The Public's Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress, United States, 2013
description: National adult. Smallest Geographic Unit: State
description: telephone interviewPlease visit the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research website for more information on the 2013 The Public's Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress poll.