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Community and Urban Studies
Studies: 101
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For this survey, respondents from three counties in the Detroit, Michigan, area were queried about their health, satisfaction with their health care, end of life decisions, policies about life and death ...

hdl:1902.2/4121
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Updated: Nov 13, 2009
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The Chicago Longitudinal Study investigates the educational and social development of a same-age cohort of 1,539 low-income, minority children (93 percent African American) who grew up in high-poverty ...

hdl:1902.2/25921
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Updated: Nov 13, 2009
Affect, Reason, and Decision Making by Slovic, Paul; Finucane, Melissa; Alhakami, Ali
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This study examines the commonly observed inverse relationship between perceived risk and perceived benefit. The researchers proposed that this relationship occurs because people rely on affect when ...

hdl:1902.2/24610
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Updated: Nov 13, 2009
Detroit Area Study, 2004 by Farley, Reynolds; Kryan, Maria; Couper, Mick
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The 2004 Detroit Area Study (DAS) is a face-to-face survey of adults in the Detroit, Michigan tri-county area. Topics in this survey addressed racial issues, residence and housing, neighborhood evaluations, racial ...

hdl:1902.2/23820
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Updated: Jul 13, 2009
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Immigrant communities have been an indispensable element of United States metropolitan life, often playing the role of a way station on a long journey of assimilation. Reflecting this, a linear spatial ...

hdl:1902.2/23545
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Updated: Jul 13, 2009
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For this survey, respondents from three counties in the Detroit, Michigan, area were queried about how they received and used information in their daily lives and how they viewed other people, groups, and ...

hdl:1902.2/22630
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Updated: Apr 27, 2009
Minority Aging and Health by National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging; National Institute on Aging
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This three-volume CD-ROM contains 32 data collections relating to the study of minorities and aging. Included are the following studies:

  • National Health Interview Survey, 1994: Second ...
hdl:1902.2/3297
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Updated: Apr 27, 2009
Detroit Area Study, 2002 by Mohai, Paul; Brechin, Steve
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The 2002 Detroit Area Study (DAS) is a face-to-face survey of adults in the Detroit, Michigan tri-county area. Respondents were asked questions about their place of residence, level of political participation, general ...

hdl:1902.2/24320
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Updated: Mar 30, 2009
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This research was undertaken to uncover the predictors of volunteerism for older persons and to determine the mental health benefits of such activity. The study was conducted from August 1993 until July ...

hdl:1902.2/20460
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Updated: Jan 19, 2009
Northwest Area Foundation Ventures Social Indicators Survey, June-September 2005 by Northwest Area Foundation; University of Oregon. Oregon Survey Research Laboratory
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The survey was designed to obtain information pertaining to community, neighborhood, local government, and community-based activities in an effort to discover ways to reduce poverty among the Ventures ...

hdl:1902.2/21180
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Updated: Sep 15, 2008