Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health: South Africa, Baseline (Wave 0), 2002-2004

Investigators: World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO)'s Multi-Country Studies unit developed the Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE) as part of a Longitudinal Survey Program to compile comprehensive longitudinal information on the health and well being of older adult populations. The primary objectives of the SAGE survey program are: To obtain reliable, valid, and comparable health, health-related, and well-being data over a range of key domains for adult and older adult populations in nationally representative samples; To examine patterns and dynamics of age-related changes in health and well-being using longitudinal follow-up of a cohort as they age, and to investigate socioeconomic consequences of these health changes; To supplement and cross-validate self-reported measures of health and the anchoring vignette approach to improving comparability of self-reported measures, through measured performance tests for selected health domains; and To collect health examination and biomarker data that improves reliability of morbidity and risk factor data and to objectively monitor the effect of interventions. Additional objectives include: To generate large cohorts of older adult populations and comparison cohorts of younger populations for following-up intermediate outcomes, monitoring trends, examining transitions and life events, and addressing relationships between determinants and health, well-being, and health-related outcomes; To develop a mechanism to link survey data to demographic surveillance site data; To build linkages with other national and multi-country aging studies; To improve the methodologies to enhance the reliability and validity of health outcomes and determinants data; and To provide a public-access information base to engage all stakeholders, including national policy makers and health systems planners, in planning and decision-making processes about the health and well-being of older adults. The SAGE study collects data on respondents ages 18 years and older, with an emphasis on individuals ages 50 years and older, from nationally representative samples in six countries: China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russian Federation, and South Africa. The baseline cohort (Wave 0) was created during the 2002-2004 round of the World Health Survey (WHS).

Survey of Disabled Americans: Bringing Disabled Americans into the Mainstream, 1986

Investigators: International Center for the Disabled

Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. conducted the 1986 ICD Survey of Disabled Americans: Bringing Disabled Americans into the Mainstream for the International Center for the Disabled (ICD) in cooperation with the National Council on the Handicapped. This survey addressed what it means to be disabled in America. This was accomplished by asking a wide range of disabled individuals about the impact of disability on the quality of their lives, their work, social life, daily activities, education, and personal life. The survey also focused on barriers that prevented disabled people from working, having a full social life, getting around, or using services; i.e., barriers that excluded them in some way from the mainstream of American life, or prevented them from achieving their goals. The study includes 373 variables for 1,000 cases.

Survey of Family Relations and Adolescent Sex Behavior in Salt Lake City, Utah and Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1983

Investigators: Brent C. Miller

This study was conducted as an evaluation of a prevention services demonstration grant awarded to T.D. Olson of Brigham Young University by the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs. In this study, the units of observation are adolescents aged 14-19, attending high schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Surveys were administered as part of a pretest-posttest comparison design of an alternative curriculum offered in health, parenting or home economics classes. The alternative curriculum was constructed to promote a greater degree of parental involvement in the education of family living and sexual decision making. The study was conducted twice, once in 1983 using students in Utah and New Mexico, and again in 1984, adding an additional set of students from California to diversify the study population. The 1984 study also acquired parental data from parent questionnaires which was not part of the 1983 study design. The present Data Set (B4) covers the 1983 study; DAAPPP Data Set B5 chronicles the 1984 study. Both surveys included questions on respondent demographic characteristics, a Family Strengths Scale designed to indicate the quality of family relationships, a Parent-Adolescent Communications Scale that addresses openness of communication and communication problems in the family, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Norwicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale, and questions on adolescents' attitudes and behavior regarding sexual intercourse.

Survey of Family Relations and Adolescent Sex Behavior in Salt Lake City, Utah, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and San Bernardino County, 1984

Investigators: Brent C. Miller

This study was conducted as an evaluation of a prevention services demonstration grant awarded T. D. Olson of Brigham Young University by the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy. In this study, the units of observation are adolescents aged 14-19, attending high schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Salt Lake City, Utah, and San Bernardino County, California. Surveys were administered as part of a pretest-posttest comparison design of an alternative curriculum offered in health, parenting, and home economics classes. The curriculum was constructed to promote a greater degree of parental involvement in the education of family living and sexual decision making. The study was done twice. The first study was done in 1983 using students in Utah and New Mexico (DAAPPP Data Set No. B4). Due to the high proportion of Mormons in the earlier sample, a second study was conducted in 1984, using students in Utah, New Mexico, and California. DAAPPP Data Set B5 covers the 1984 study. The surveys included questions on respondent demographic characteristics, a Family Strengths Scale designed to indicate the quality of family relationships, a Parent-Adolescent Communications Scale that addresses openness of communication and communication problems in the family, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Norwicki- Strickland Locus of Control Scale, and sexual value questions regarding adolescents' attitudes and behavior concerning kissing, petting and intercourse.

Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)

Investigators: United States Census Bureau

The main objective of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is to provide accurate and comprehensive information about income and program participation of individuals and households in the United States, and about the principal determinants of income and program participation. SIPP offers detailed information on cash and noncash income on a sub annual basis. The survey also collects data on taxes, assets, liabilities, and participation in government transfer programs. SIPP data allow the government to evaluate the effectiveness of federal, state, and local programs.

Survey of Income and Program Participation Core and Disability Modules, 1992/1993

Investigators: Bureau of Census, Jack McNeil

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is a large panel study of civilian non-institutionalized U.S. citizens. Conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, SIPP provides detailed income and other economic resource distribution information for the U.S. population. Using these data, program analysts, policy makers, or other researchers can then predict assistance program eligibility rates. The survey focuses primarily on improving data on people who are economically at risk: poor or near-poor people and middle-income people who, if they lost a spouse, parent or job, would likely experience economic deprivation and might then require federal assistance. Secondary to this core set of information, SIPP adds question modules about a variety of policy related topics. This user's guide pertains to SIPP's overlapping crosssectional core data and modules on disability from the 1992 and 1993 panels.

Survey of U.S. Family Planning Agencies, 1982 and 1983

Investigators: Aida Torres

This study was conducted to examine the effects of the federal budget cuts on the availability and delivery of family planning agency services. It includes data on changes that occurred in the provision of family planning services between 1980, the year before the 1981 budget cuts, and 1983. It also includes data on type of funding, type of programs and services available, and fee schedules. This mail survey was sent to a random sample of family planning provider agencies, with a total response of 327 providers. A similar follow-up study was carried out in mid-1983. The data has been weighted to account for nearly two-thirds of all patients served in 1980. Note for users of DAAPPP Data Sets #01-B1DAAPPP data sets 01 through B1 are comprised of a User's Guide, SPSS syntax files (*.SPS or *.SPX) and raw data files only. Most of these datasets contain SPSS syntax files that use Job Control Language (JCL) from 1980s versions of SPSS-X. Because the syntax is old, the syntax files require editing to conform to the current syntax standards used by SPSS/Windows or SPSS/Unix. If you require technical assistance in using or editing these syntax files, please contact Sociometrics' Data Support Group at 800.846.3475 or socio@socio.com.

Testing an Intervention Model for Teen Fertility Control, 1986-1988

Investigators: Marvin B. Eisen

Data were collected in Texas and California over a three-year period in a design which closely approximated a randomized field trial. Six family planning services agencies and one independent school district compared their ``usual care'' outreach or regular classroom curriculum with an experimental Health Belief Model-Social Learning Theory (HBM-SLT)-based intervention program. Each agency recruited its sample by its usual methods and the school district used its eighth and ninth grade population. Within an agency's targeted age range (13-21 overall), participants were unselected with respect to sex, race or ethnicity, and previous coital experience. Participants were randomly assigned individually or by classroom unit to either the agency's usual program (Comparison groups) or to the HBM-SLT program (Experimental groups). Study data were collected at three points: before exposure to the intervention; immediately following the intervention; and twelve months after the scheduled program completion date.

Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), Household Youth Data, 1988-94

Investigators: US Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is one of the major surveys of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) was conducted in two phases between October 1988 and October 1994. It was designed to obtain nationally representative information on the health and nutritional status of the U.S. population through in-home interviews and direct physical examinations conducted in a mobile examination center (MEC). NHANES III is the seventh in a series of national examination studies conducted in the U. S. beginning in 1960, and is the first NHANES to include persons 75 years of age and over. The goals of the NHANES III are similar to those of earlier NHANES and are listed below. The last two are new for the NHANES III. to estimate the national prevalence of selected diseases and risk factors, to estimate national population reference distributions of selected health parameters, to document and investigate reasons for secular trends in selected risk factors and diseases, to contribute to an understanding of what causes disease (etiology), and to investigate the natural history of selected diseases. The NHANES III Household Youth Data File contains all data collected during the household interviews for children and youths 2 months to 16 years of age. Demographic data, survey design variables, and sampling weights for this age group are also included. The data that comprise this file were obtained from three separate interviews administered in the household: the Screener, the Family, and Household Youth questionnaires.

Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3), September 5 through December 4, 1993

Investigators: Andrea J. Sedlak, Irene Hantman, and Dana Schultz

The Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3) was designed to meet several congressional mandates issued in the Child Abuse Prevention, Adoption, and Family Services Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-294). Specifically, the NIS-3: provided current estimates of the incidence of child abuse and neglect in the United States and measured changes in these estimates from earlier studies; examined the distribution of child maltreatment in relation to various demographic factors; estimated the incidence of substantiated maltreatment cases that result in civil and criminal proceedings, and their disposition; and developed an understanding of the relationships between an incident of maltreatment, its observation, its report to a Child Protective Services agency, and any actions taken by the agency. The NIS-3 offers an important perspective on the scope of child abuse and neglect. The NIS includes children who were investigated by child protective service (CPS) agencies, but it also obtains data on children seen by community professionals who were not reported to CPS or who were screened out by CPS without investigation. This means that the NIS estimates provide a more comprehensive measure of the scope of child abuse and neglect known to community professionals, including both abused and neglected children who are in the official statistics and those who are not. The NIS follows a nationally representative design, which means that the estimates represent the numbers of abused and neglected children in the United States who come to the attention of community professionals. The NIS-3 was conducted in a nationally representative sample of 42 counties. In every county, the CPS agency was a key participant, providing basic demographic data on all the children who were reported and accepted for investigation during the 3-month study data period, September 5 through December 4, 1993. Further details about the child's maltreatment and the outcome of the CPS investigation were obtained for a representative sample of these cases.