DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38380
title: National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: Latinos' Lives and Health Today, United States, 2013
title: Archival Version

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 Latinos' Lives and Health Today, a survey from National Public Radio, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, conducted by Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS). Topics covered in this survey include: Satisfaction with life Satisfaction with living area Most important local issue Other Hispanic people in living area Rating aspects of life Personal discrimination in past twelve months Personal finances Achieving American dream Economic class Better off than parents Opportunities for children Language spoken at home Looking for job Concerns about unemployment Biggest health problem in family Description of weight Trying to lose weight Medical care in past twelve months Problems with medical care access Confidence in ability to pay for major illness Health care facility used Health care professionals speaking Spanish Receiving poor medical care Health insurance coverage Personal health rating Frequency of exercise Country born in Age came to United States Parents' birth country Reasons for coming to US Comparing birth country to US Diet as more or less healthy in US. The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092358]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 184 variables from this survey are available through the ICPSR social science variable database and can be accessed from the Variables tab.
description: The study was intended to elicit opinions about life in the United States from a representative sample of Hispanic adults.
description: The study collected a representative sample of adult Latino respondents. A dual-frame landline/cell phone stratified sampling 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 staff at NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health, 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. Weight was initially calculated as the product of 1) re-contact propensity correction, which accounted for possible bias when re-contacting households; 2) correction for oversampling of telephone exchanges which included a higher density of Latino residents; 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-qualifying-adult households a lower weight than households with two or more qualifying adults. Cell phone respondents also received the one-qualifying-adult adjustment. The data then underwent iterative proportional fitting based on the approximate population distribution of Latino adults presented in the U.S. Census Bureau's 2011 American Community Survey. Finally, the weights were truncated to a more limited range to control for variance.
description: Response Rates: The response rate for this study was 20.8%.
description: Nationally representative sample of 1,478 adult Latino respondents
description: Datasets: DS1: National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: Latinos' Lives and Health Today, United States, 2013
description: Latino adults. 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 2013 Latinos' Lives and Health Today poll.