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CAMDA Data Set No. 22

John F. Kennedy School of Government/Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/National Public Radio Health News Interest Index: Social Security/Vitamins, 1999
Robert J. Blendon, Catherine M. DesRoches, John M. Benson, Mollyann Brodie, Drew E. Altman

The John F. Kennedy School of Government/Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/National Public Radio Health News Interest Index: Social Security/Vitamins, 1999 was a nationally representative, public opinion telephone survey of U.S. adults. The purpose of the study was to examine the characteristics of dietary supplement users, attitudes about dietary supplements, attitudes towards government regulation of supplements, and to examine differences in attitudes between users and nonusers of dietary supplements.

The survey was designed by researchers at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and National Public Radio and was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates. Survey respondents were selected through random-digit dialing. Telephone interviews were conducted among a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults, age 18 and older between February 19 and 25, 1999. The data set contain 65 variables collected from 1,208 respondents.

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