DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38376.v1
title: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: America's Health Agenda, United States, 2011
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 America's Health Agenda, a survey from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health conducted by Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS). Topics covered in this survey include: Rating local community's healthiness Most threatening disease or health condition Most important medical care system problems Rating government illness prevention Rating government health care systems Preferred government size Federal government health care priorities Rating federal government health care performance Contact with federal government health agencies Overall national health changes State government health priorities Rating state government health care performance Contact with state government health agencies Overall state health changes Local government health care priorities Rating local government health care performance Contact with local health agencies Overall local health changes Personal problems in past year Spending money to save in the long run The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092347]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 421 variables from this survey are available through the ICPSR social science variable database and can be accessed from the Variables tab.
description: This study was intended to provide a better understanding of Americans' beliefs about what health care system priorities should be at the federal, state, and local levels of government.
description: The study collected a nationally representative sample of adult respondents. An overlapping, dual-frame landline/cell phone design was used to address concerns about coverage, with RDD samples generated using Marketing Systems Group's GENESYS system. The interview questionnaire was developed by the Harvard School of Public Health research staff, with the SSRS project team consulting.
description: The study dataset contains weight factors that should be employed in any data analysis. Weights are typically used in an attempt to ensure that the survey sample more accurately represents the population. The weight variable in this study is WEIGHT. The baseweight was calculated as the product of the dual-frame adjustment, which corrected for differences in the likelihood of selection for respondents answering both landlines and cell phones, and the within-household selection adjustment, which assigned landline respondents from single-adult households a lower weight than households with two or more adults. Cell phone respondents also received the landline mean as their adjustment. The baseweight was applied to the sample, which then underwent iterative post-stratification balancing based on the approximate population distribution presented in the U.S. Census Bureau's 2011 March Supplement to the Current Population Survey. The weights were then truncated to a more limited range to control for variance.
description: Response Rates: The response rate for this study was 19.0%.
description: Nationally representative sample of 1,598 adult respondents
description: Datasets: DS1: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: America's Health Agenda, United States, 2011
description: National adult. Smallest Geographic Unit: State
description: computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI); telephone interviewPlease visit the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research website for more information on the 2011 America's Health Agenda poll.