A one-year subscription includes online access to the U.S.
Social Surveys Teaching Modules and CD-ROMs. CD-ROMS will be mailed
to subscribers upon receipt of payment.
The U.S. Social Surveys Teaching Module exercises introduce
social science students to a statistical exploration of real-life
issues in social research using variables from the studies
in the collection. Each teaching module offers three exercises
covering various statistical methods or concepts (e.g., crosstabulation,
t-test, statistical significance, or sample
weighting) and is accompanied by a machine-readable data extract
in SPSS portable format, allowing further exploration of the data.
Teaching Modules are a useful resource for students interested
in seeing how actual theories, hypotheses, or concepts in the
social sciences are evaluated with real data. U.S. Social Surveys
and the Teaching Modules collection serves as a useful addition
to classroom or extracurricular instruction in survey research
methods,
questionnaire design and development, or concept operationalization,
measurement, and analysis.
"Exploring Issues in Questionnaire Design"
uses data from the
1992 National Health and Social Life Survey to illustrate some
of the steps researchers take to develop survey instruments
and
evaluate the effectiveness of their questionnaire.
"Exploring
Teen Pregnancy Risk Factors" explores the
relationship between teen pregnancy, onset of risky behaviors
such as sexual intercourse, and sex education using the National
Survey of Family Growth, 1995, Cycle 5.
"Exploring
the Relationship Between Gender, Identity,
Socialization, and High-Risk Health Behaviors" uses
data from
the National Survey of Adolescent Males, 1995 to investigate
young men's attitudes about women, contraception, self-esteem,
and violence.
"Exploring
the Relationship between Youth Risk Behaviors and
Ethnicity" investigates differences in risk-taking
behavior
among adolescents of various ethnicities using the National
Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 1997.
The complete
U.S. Social Surveys collection is housed on five CD-ROMs and
includes an instructional booklet with FAQs, Study Summaries,
Teaching Module Exercises, and a Glossary. Each CD-ROM contains
a
single study, the data collection instrument or questionnaire,
linked barcharts and data tables. A Teaching Module exercise with
data extract and SPSS syntax is also available for four studies
in
the collection. CD-ROM documents are in searchable PDF format.
Data
and questionnaires from six national studies are included in the
U.S. Social Surveys Collection:
The
1992
National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS)
provides useful and comprehensive information on the sexual behavior
of the general population in the United States.
The NHSLS was designed and directed by Edward O. Laumann,
Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels, of the University of Chicago,
and John H. Gagnon of the State University of New York at Stony
Brook. Data were
collected on a wide range of topics, including adolescent sexual
experiences, lifetime sexual activity, sex partner characteristics,
sexual fantasy, fertility and health, and history of sexually
transmitted diseases. Demographic
information was collected on race, religious affiliation, education,
and income. This
study contains information from a nationwide sample of 3,432 adults.
The
National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add
Health), mandated by Congress to collect data for the purpose
of measuring the impact of social environment on adolescent health,
examines the general health and well-being of adolescents in the
United States, including the behaviors that promote health and
the behaviors that are detrimental to health and the influence
on health of factors particular to the communities in which adolescents
reside. Key measures include diet and nutrition, eating disorders,
depression, violent behavior, intentional injury, unintentional
injury, suicide, exercise, health service use, and health insurance
coverage.
The National
Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 5, 1995 (NSFG), fifth in a
series of periodic surveys of women 15-44 years of age, covers
topics such as living arrangements during childhood, and work,
complete marital and cohabitation histories, and sexual partner
histories for 5 years prior to the interview. The survey also
includes characteristics of male partners, consistency of contraceptive
use, pregnancy wantedness, and a self-administered section on
sensitive topics such as abortion and forced intercourse. The
overall objective of the NSFG is to supplement the vital statistics
of fertility and of family formation and dissolution, with more
detailed data on the "intermediate variables" which shape these
trends and on the health and socioeconomic contexts in which they
occur.
The
1995 National Survey of Adolescent Males (NSAM), a nationally
representative survey of 1,729 teenage men aged 15 to 19, was
designed to increase knowledge and understanding of the determinants
of adolescent male contraceptive use, sexual activity and related
risk behaviors.
The
1997 and 1999 Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, part
of the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System established
to monitor the prevalence of youth behaviors that most influence
health and that result in the most significant mortality, morbidity,
disability, and social problems during both youth and adulthood.
These include behaviors that result in unintentional and intentional
injuries; tobacco use; alcohol and other drug use; sexual behaviors
that result in HIV infection, other sexually-transmitted diseases
(STDs), and unintended pregnancies; dietary behaviors; and physical
activity.
Each
study CD-ROM includes:
U.S.
Social Surveys links questionnaires from national social and health
surveys with the actual data collected by survey researchers.
With U.S. Social Surveys, you can: