National senior citizens survey, 1968
By: principal investigator, Kermit Schooler
Series: ICPSR -- 7626; ICPSR (Series) -- 7626
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Older people; Social conditions; Dwellings; Services for; Social surveys
Description: The National Senior Citizens Survey reports the responses of 3,996 noninstitutionalized persons 65 years of age and older in a national sample of the continental United States. Personal interviews with the respondents focused on characteristics of residential environments, social relationships, morale, and health. General demographic characteristics and information on knowledge and use of social services are also included. The primary emphasis of the survey was to determine the impact of environmental attributes on some aspects of aging, primarily life satisfaction, knowledge and use of services, and social relationships. Also of interest were the interrelationships among environment, social relationships, and morale. The 1971 survey is a follow-up of the 1968 survey. Most of the variables in the follow-up survey are replicated from the original questionnaire.
Notes: Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging.

ICPSR data class: Class I.

Data collected: 1968.

United States.

The data are available in both card image and OSIRIS formats.

The card image file contains 17 decks per 96 respondent. There are 821 variables in the file. Of the original 3,996 respondents, 521 were reinterviewed in 1971. There are 726 variables in the follow-up study.