National Evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative: Survey of Adults and Youth

Alternate Titles(s): Evaluation of the Urban Health Initiative: Working to Ensure the Health and Safety of Children

UID: 4

Author(s): Beth C. Weitzman

Description: This dataset was generated during a repeated cross-sectional national telephone survey of households, conducted as part of the evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative (UHI). UHI is a long-term effort to improve the health, safety, and well-being of children and youth in five economically distressed cities in the United States: Baltimore, MD, Detroit, MI, Oakland, CA, Philadelphia, PA, and Richmond, VA. The UHI Survey of Adults and Youth (SAY) included a variety of questions, asked of both parents and their 10-18 year old children, regarding children's health, safety, perceptions of neighborhoods and schools, family relations, quality of city services, and other issues. SAY surveyed 3 types of households -- households without children, households with children aged 0-9 years, and households with children aged 10-18 years -- in up to 14 geographic areas, including the 5 UHI program cities, 9 comparison cities demographically similar to the UHI cities, the suburban regions of these cities, the most populous 100 United States cities, and the rest of the country. There were 3 waves of SAY fielded during the course of the UHI project: during the 1998-1999, 2001-2002, and 2004-2005 school years. There is a separate data file for each wave, and each record contains all of the data for a given household.
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Timeframe: 1998 - 2005
Geographic Coverage: California - Oakland

Maryland - Baltimore

Michigan - Detroit

Pennsylvania - Philadelphia

Virginia - Richmond

Subject Domain

Medicine & Health

Sociology

Population Age

Newborn (under 1 month)

Infant (1 to 23 months)

Child (2 to 12 years)

Adolescent (13 to 17 years)

Adult (18 to 64 years)

Keywords

Child development

Child welfare

Parenting

Social determinants of health

Underserved population

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Accession #: ICPSR 23241
Access Restrictions: Application required

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Associated Publications: Weitzman BC, Silver D, Dillman K. Integrating a Comparison Group Design into a Theory of Change Evaluation: The Case of the Urban Health initiative. Amer J of Evaluation. 2002;23(4):371-385.

Mijanovich T, Weitzman BC. Which "broken windows" matter? School, neighborhood, and family characteristics associated with youths' feelings of unsafety. J Urban Health. 2003;80(3):400.
Data Type: Survey
Dataset Format(s): SPSS, ASCII

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