DOI: 10.3886/icpsr39192.v1
title: National Wellbeing Survey, United States, 2023
title: Version 1

description: The National Wellbeing Survey (NWS) is an
annual population-based cross-sectional survey of adults aged 18 to 64 in the
United States first collected in 2021. Survey topics include psychosocial wellbeing, social relationships and support, participation in social activities, physical health, mental health, health behaviors, health care use, employment quality and experiences, COVID-19 experiences, socioeconomic measures, political orientation, and demographic measures.
description: The purpose of this study was to develop an overall understanding of wellbeing of adults aged 18 to 64 in the United States.
description: This study used a non-probability, opt-in, online panel of U.S. adults administered through Qualtrics Panels. The sample design included an oversample of rural residents; 26% of respondents (N=1,862) reside in a non-metropolitan county.
description: Survey topics include psychosocial wellbeing, social relationships and support, participation in social activities, physical health, mental health, health behaviors, health care use, employment quality and experiences, drug use, COVID-19 experiences, socioeconomic measures, political orientation, and demographic measures (race/ethnicity, sex/gender, sexual orientation, and age).
description: A post-stratification final person weight (<strong>final_wgt</strong>) is included to make the
analyses nationally representative of the non-institutionalized United States working-age population (ages 18-64) by age, sex, race, Hispanic ethnicity, educational attainment, and rural-urban continuum. Educational attainment was not incorporated into the weight for respondents ages 18-24. Because of the rural oversample built into the sampling design, users should apply the weight to all analyses.
description: Response Rates: The traditional response rate is
not a useful measure for opt-in online panels because they use passive
recruitment (e.g., invitation could be embedded in a longer email, repeated
invitations are not sent), and the traditional response rate does not
account for whether the email was opened or sent to junk folders. Qualtrics
sent a request to complete the survey to 167,451 email addresses. Of those, 38,519
clicked the link to enter to survey landing page. Of those, 20,020 were
ineligible to proceed with the survey due to sample quota requirements (i.e.,
they represented a demographic category for which we had already achieved our
sample quota). Therefore, 18,499 people who opened the email were eligible.
From there, a total of 14,891 respondents completed the survey. Collectively,
Qualtrics and the research team dropped 7,786 surveys due to concerns about
data quality (e.g., speeding, straight lining), resulting in 7,105 completed
quality surveys. Accordingly, the overall response rate as traditionally
defined would be 8.9% (14,891 completed surveys/167,451 email requests).
However, the quality survey completion rate among those who accessed the survey
landing page and were eligible to complete the survey was 38.4% (7,105
quality surveys/18,499).
description: Presence of Common Scales: 
Diemer Satisfaction with Life Scale
Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4)
Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)
description: Non-probability,
opt-in, online panel of 7,105 non-institutionalized U.S. adults administered through Qualtrics Panels.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Public-Use Data
DS2: Restricted-Use Data
description: Noninstitutionalized
adults in the United States who ranged in age from 18 to 64 years old and who
were able to read English. . Smallest Geographic Unit: County
description: web-based surveyThe restricted-use version of the data include geographic identifiers and variables for states (N = 51) and counties (N = 1,746). The public-use data have these variables masked. For additional information on this study, please visit the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs website.