National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle V, 1995

Investigators: National Center for Health Statistics

This is the fifth in a series of periodic surveys of women 15-44 years of age. Previous surveys were conducted in 1973, 1976, 1982, and 1988 with a telephone reinterview of the 1988 respondents in 1990. Topics covered in previous interviews included the month and year of first intercourse; pregnancy, contraceptive, marital, and cohabitation histories, employment and occupation, child care, fecundity and sterility, prenatal medical care, family planning services, birth expectations, ethnicity, education, religion, and income. For Cycle 5, event histories of education, living arrangements during childhood, and work have been added, along with complete marital and cohabitation histories, and sexual partner histories for 5 years prior to the interview. The survey also included, for the first time in 1995, characteristics of male partners, new items on consistency of contraceptive use, new questions on pregnancy wantedness, and a computer-assisted selfadministered section containing questions 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 uses of the data gathered in the NSFG are broad, though mostly in the health and demographic fields. The 1995 NSFG obtained detailed information on factors affecting childbearing from a national probability sample of women 15 to 44 years of age. The purpose of the survey is to produce national estimates and an information base on factors affecting pregnancy including sexual activity, contraceptive use, infertility, and sources of family planning services and the health of women and infants. For Cycle 5, interviewing and data processing were conducted by the Research Triangle Institute, under a contract with NCHS.

National Survey of Men, 1991

Investigators: Koray Tanfer

The 1991 National Survey of Men (NSM-I) was conducted between March 1991 and January 1992, under a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, to examine issues related to sexual behavior and condom use among a national household probability sample of males aged 20-39. The NSM-I was intended to serve as the baseline survey for a longitudinal study of this group of U.S. men. Data collection and processing were carried out by the Institute for Survey Research at Temple University in Philadelphia. In-person interviews were conducted using a standard questionnaire with 3,321 eligible males. The survey questionnaire assessed information regarding respondents' personal background; sexual initiation and current exposure; current wife or partner; previous marital relationships; non-marital sexual partners; nonsexual romantic partners; health and risktaking behavior; attitudes, perceptions and knowledge regarding health and contraception; and condom use. A self-administered questionnaire, which assessed self-esteem, locus of control, and attitudes toward marriage, was also completed by respondents.

National Survey of Men, 1991

Investigators: Koray Tanfer, John O.G. Billy, William R. Grady & Daniel H. Klepinger

The 1991 National Survey of Men was conducted to examine issues related to sexual behavior and condom use among U.S. men aged 20 to 39. Data collection and processing took place between March 1991 and January 1992. This survey was intended to serve as a baseline survey for a longitudinal study. Face-to-face interviews asked respondents about demographic information sexual initiation and current exposure; current wife or partner; previous marital relationships; other non-marital sexual partners; nonsexual romantic partners; health and risk-taking behavior; attitudes, perceptions, and knowledge of health-related and contraception-related issues. A set of self-administered questions assessed self-esteem, locus of control and attitudes toward marriage. This baseline study includes a total of 3,321 cases and 2,131 variables.

National Survey of Physicians' Attitudes Toward Abortion, 1975

Investigators: Leonard LoSciuto

The survey used a national probability sampling frame and includes 1,452 personal interviews with physicians and osteopaths stratified by four physician specialty types: obstetrician-gynecologists, psychiatrists, generalists, and physicians in other specialties. The probability of PSU selection was also taken into account. The questionnaire included queries on the justifications for abortion, opinions on effects of the 1973 Supreme Court abortion decision, practices regarding abortion in 1972 and currently, perceived influences on attitudes, and various details of background, training, and demographic variables. 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.

National Survey of Self-Care and Aging (NSSCA), 1990-1994

Investigators: Gordon H. DeFriese, Jean E. Kincade Norburn

The National Survey of Self-Care and Aging (NSSCA) is a population-based, national longitudinal survey of noninstitutionalized Medicare beneficiaries. It employed a multistage stratified random sample design to represent the population of Medicare beneficiaries in the contiguous United States who were not institutionalized (residing in a nursing home, rest home, or other full-care facility) and who were at least 65 years of age in 1990. The survey was conducted in two waves. The baseline survey was an in-person survey and was conducted between 1990 and 1991. The follow-up survey was a telephone survey and was conducted in 1994. The objective of the baseline survey was to develop a national database on self-care behaviors practiced by noninstitutional elderly adults. The objective of the followup survey was to continue examination of the health status and self-care practices of individuals who were interviewed at baseline. Data from the baseline survey and follow-up survey have been merged into one dataset. The resulting dataset contains 1,234 variables collected from 3,485 respondents.

National Survey of Self-Care and Aging, 1990-1994

Investigators: Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research

The National Survey of Self-Care and Aging (NSSCA) is a population-based, national longitudinal survey of noninstitutionalized Medicare beneficiaries. It employed a multistage stratified random sample design to represent the population of noninstitutionalized U.S. Medicare beneficiaries at least 65 years of age in 1990. The objective of the baseline survey, conducted between 1990 and 1991, was to develop a national database on self-care behaviors practiced by noninstitutional elderly adults. A follow-up survey was conducted in 1994, to continue examination of the health status and self-care practices of individuals who were interviewed at baseline.

National Survey of Sexuality Issues among Women with Physical Disabilities, 1994

Investigators: Margaret A. Nosek

The 1994 National Study on Sexuality Issues Among Women with Physical Disabilities focuses on a broad range of sexuality issues facing women with physical disabilities. The project consisted of two phases, a qualitative interview study of 31 women with physical disabilities and a national survey of 940 women, half with a variety of physical disabilities and half without disabilities. The first phase involved in-depth interviews with 31 women with disabilities; the women were recruited through personal contact and by fliers distributed locally and nationally. The purpose of the qualitative study was to determine the parameters of sexuality as viewed by the population. From this preliminary study, a questionnaire was developed. In Phase II (the survey archived here), this questionnaire was administered to 940 women nationally, evenly split between women with and without physical disabilities. Domains of inquiry reflect the five thematic groups identified in the qualitative study: sense of self, relationships, barriers, information, and health and sexual functioning, as well as sexual functioning, disability status, psychological factors, social factors (social status and social attitudes), and environmental factors. The original study contains approximately 300 variables examining respondents' experiences with abuse, threatening experiences, and parenting. These data were not available to RADIUS for archiving, and interested researchers should contact the original investigator. Overall, this study contributes significantly to the relatively small body of research on the effects of physical disabilities on disabled women's courtship, sexual, and reproductive behavior.

National Survey of Unmarried Women, Aged 20-29, 1983

Investigators: Koray Tanfer

The survey's aim was the examination of these women's sexual, contraceptive, and fertility behaviors, and factors associated with these behaviors. Also collected from each respondent was information regarding residence, household composition, education, and employment. Complete pregnancy histories were obtained for all ever-pregnant women. A relationship history, spanning the time from the date of first sexual intercourse to the interview date, and which included characteristics of sexual unions and characteristics of partners, was obtained from all non-virgin respondents. In contrast to many previous fertility-related surveys, a key feature of this survey was the use of a life-history approach. The life-history calendar was used in conjunction with the interview schedule to facilitate the respondents' recall accuracy through visual linkages between certain experiences or events across domains. The intent of this method was to reconstruct a single lifehistory for each respondent which would reflect the timing and nature of each event occurring within the framework of the event domains selected for consideration. Data collected in this manner permit the examination of processes (or of events that are essentially processes), rather than structure, and provide the opportunity for assessment of the factors influencing these processes. In this context, the criterion event (dependent variable) as well as the predictor events (explanatory or independent variables) may be analyzed as processes. Examples of criterion events might include the formation of sexual unions, cohabitation, contraception, pregnancy, birth of a child, marriage, and so on. Such events are life course transitions, which often alter the postition of individuals in the life cycle, and are characterized by three interrelated dimensions: number, timing, and sequencing of events. More specifically, number refers to the proportion of individuals experiencing a certain event; timing refers to the pace at which the event occurs; and sequencing refers to the ordering of the event, with respect to some other event. Life-history data have a time dimension associated with them; the information collected on events within each domain includes both substantive content and a time value. The life-history approach, as used in this survey, is analogous to repeated measures on the same individuals at different time points. Therefore, it is somewhat different from an aggregation of data from several similar surveys that also contain a time dimension, but that present, in effect, successive measures on different samples of individuals. This approach, therefore, introduces some of the advantages of the longitudinal design into the cross-sectional survey. Life-history data differ also from panel data or "before-after" data which record data for the same individual at specific points in time only.

National Survey of Women, 1991

Investigators: Koray Tanfer

The 1991 National Survey of Women (NSW) was conducted between March 1991 and January 1992 under grant No. HD-26631 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The NSW was designed as a follow-up to the 1983 National Survey of Unmarried Women (NSUW), which examined sexual, contraceptive and fertility behaviors, along with factors affecting those behaviors, in a national household probability sample of never-married women between the ages of 20 and 29. The NSW sample consists of two subsamples of women. Women in the first subsample (n=929) were first interviewed as part of the NSUW in 1983 when they were 20-29 years old and had never been married. These women were subsequently traced and reinterviewed in 1991. The second subsample of women (n=740) was obtained from a new area probability sample of 20-27 year old women, regardless of marital status; women in this latter sample were interviewed for the first time in 1991. The combined sample consists of 1,669 women who were 20-37 years old in 1991. In-person interviews were conducted using a standard questionnaire and assessed information regarding respondents' personal background; pregnancy history; sexual initiation and current exposure; current husband or partner; previous marital relationships; nonmarital sexual partners; nonsexual romantic partners; health and risk-taking behavior; attitudes, perceptions and knowledge regarding health and contraception; and condom use. A self-administered questionnaire, which assessed self-esteem, locus of control, and attitudes toward marriage, was also completed by respondents.

National Survey of the Japanese Elderly: Wave 1, 1987

Investigators: Institute of Gerontology Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology

The National Survey of the Japanese Elderly (NSJE) is a longitudinal study conducted in Japan by the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan (IoG) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology (TMIG). The first wave of the study was conducted in 1987 and collected data on a nationally representative sample of non- institutionalized Japanese aged 60 years and older. Subsequent Waves 2, 3, and 4 have followed in 1990, 1993, 1996 respectively. The original Wave 1 survey was designed to create a panel dataset for use in cross-cultural analyses of aging in Japan and the United States. The subsequent waves were created to match Wave 1 as closely as possible, while also allowing for growth in specific areas of interest. In addition, the surveys were designed to be partially comparable in content with Americans' Changing Lives: Waves 1, 2, 3, and 4, 1986, 1989, 1994, and 1996 and the National Health Interview Survey, 1984: Supplement on Aging. The survey has nine sections: demographics (age, gender, marital status, education, employment), social integration (interpersonal contacts, social supports), health status (limitations on daily life and activities, health conditions, level of physical activity), subjective well-being and mental health status (life satisfaction, morale), psychological indicators (life events, locus of control, self-esteem), financial situation (financial status), memory (measures of cognitive functioning), and interviewer observations (assessments of respondents).