DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38379.v1
title: National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: African Americans' Lives Today, 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 African Americans' Lives 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 and environment Life improvements Satisfaction with living area Living area improvements Most important local issue Other black people in area Amount of black friends Economic class Rating various public institutions Rating quality of various resources Amount of discrimination Reason for discrimination Personal financial situation Economic class growing up Achieving American dream Better off than parents Importance of religion Making decisions about children Child schooling Rating child's school Black children in school Desired level of child's education Seeking long-term relationship Desire to marry Satisfaction with dating opportunities Race of romantic dates Looking for work Career success Unemployment concerns Health insurance and healthcare Access to care Medical expenses Quality of doctors Health and wellness Social and family life The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092356]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 204 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 African American adults.
description: The study collected a representative sample of adult African American 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, while a subset more likely to include African American households was generated using Ethnic Technologies' sampling 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 African American 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 adults presented in the U.S. Census Bureau's 2012 March Supplement to the Current Population 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 1,081 adult African American respondents
description: Datasets: DS1: National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Poll: African Americans' Lives Today, United States, 2013
description: African Americans. 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 African Americans' Lives Today poll.