DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04216.v1
title: Community Tracking Study Household Survey, 2003: [United States]
title: Version 1

description: This collection contains data and documentation for the fourth round of the Community Tracking Study (CTS) Household Survey. Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the CTS is a national study designed to track changes in the United States' health care system and their effects. The fourth round was administered to households in the 60 CTS sites: 51 metropolitan areas and nine nonmetropolitan areas which were randomly selected to form the core of the CTS and to be representative of the nation as a whole. The first round of the CTS Household Survey was conducted in 1996-1997 (ICPSR 2524), the second round in 1998-1999 (ICPSR 3199), and the third in 2000-2001 (ICPSR 3764). Respondents to the fourth round provided information about health insurance coverage, use of health services, unmet needs for health care, children's special health care needs, out-of-pocket medical costs, patient trust in physicians, sources of health information, attitudes about medical care, and satisfaction with health care and health plans. Health status, chronic conditions, and risk attitudes and smoking behavior were additional topics covered by the fourth round questionnaire. The data include variables on height and weight, employment, income, ethnicity, race, United States citizenship, household composition, and demographic characteristics.
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 online analysis version with question text..
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: Public-Use Version of the Main Data File 
 DS2: Restricted-Use Version of the Main Data File 
 DS3: Site and County Crosswalk Data File
description: Community Tracking Study Series
description: computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) 
 Additional information about this study is located on the Web site of the Center for Studying Health System Change.
description: Households in the contiguous 48 states.
description: A sample of households was selected from within the 60 CTS sites using random-digit dialing techniques. This telephone sample was augmented with an area probability sample of households without telephones or with substantial interruptions in telephone service. The telephone sample was derived by selecting telephone numbers from the previous CTS Household Survey and telephone numbers that were not included in the Round Three (2000-2001) survey. The nontelephone component sampled addresses from the previous survey and addresses that were not covered by the previous survey. In all, 23,029 Round Three respondents were reinterviewed in Round Four. Unlike the previous CTS Household Surveys, the fourth round lacks a supplemental sample, an independent national telephone sample of about 5,700-6,100 people which was selected in each of the earlier three surveys.