DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38378.v1
title: National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: Sick in America, United States, 2012
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 Sick in America, a survey from National Public Radio, 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: Quality of health care Health care costs as problem Reasons for health care quality problems Focus of doctor visits Reasons for rising health care costs Health care as good value Agreement with doctor statements Amount of doctors Doctor visits for check-up Personal insurance coverage Uninsured Overnight hospital stays Satisfaction with hospital medical care Medical care costs as reasonable Description of hospital stays Serious illness Interactions with medical professionals Impact of medical care costs on family Receiving care every time it's needed Being turned away for health care Insurance premiums as financial problem Out of pocket medical costs Negotiating lower charges Problems paying for insurance Changing regular doctor Personal financial situation The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092354]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 159 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 assess the attitudes and beliefs of the United States' adult population towards healthcare and associated costs, with a particular emphasis on the perspective of those most reliant on the healthcare system.
description: The study collected a 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. Additional interviews and prescreening were used to ensure adequate representation of African American and Hispanic respondents identified as sick (respondents who reported experiencing either one overnight stay in a hospital or a serious illness, condition, injury, or disability that required medical care within the past 12 months). 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 1) re-contact propensity correction, which accounted for possible bias when re-contacting households previously reported as including African American or Hispanic residents; 2) correction for oversampling of African Americans and Hispanics, which assigned a weight determined by the ratio of non-prescreened interviews of African Americans and Hispanics to all interviews from each ethnic group; 3) phone-status correction, which corrected for the likelihood of selection of respondents answering both landlines and cell phones; and 4) within-household selection correction, which assigned landline respondents from single-adult households a lower weight than households with two or more adults. Cell phone respondents also received the one-adult household weight as their adjustment. The baseweight was applied to the sample, which then underwent two stages of iterative proportional fitting based on the approximate population distribution of adults 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 22.2%.
description: Nationally representative sample of 1,508 adult respondents
description: Datasets: DS1: National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: Sick in America, United States, 2012
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 2012 Sick in America poll.