Description & Citation--Study No. 4372

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:4372
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04372
 
Title:Health Behavior in School-Aged Children, 2001-2002 [United States]
 
Alternate Title:HBSC, 2001-2002
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Health and Human Services. Health Resources and Services Administration. Maternal and Child Health Bureau
 
Series:Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) Series
 
Funding Agency:United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
 
  World Health Organization
 
Bibliographic Citation:United States Department of Health and Human Services. Health Resources and Services Administration. Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Health Behavior in School-Aged Children, 2001-2002 [United States] [Computer File]. ICPSR04372-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-07-24. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04372
 

Scope of Study

Summary:Since 1982, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe has sponsored a cross-national, school-based study of health-related attitudes and behaviors of young people. These studies, generally known as Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC), are based on independent national surveys of school-aged children in as many as 30 participating countries. The HBSC studies were conducted every four years since the 1985-1986 school year. The data available here are from the results of the United States survey conducted during the 2001-2002 school year. The study results can be used as stand-alone data, or to compare with the other countries involved in the international HBSC. The HBSC study has two main objectives. The first objective is to monitor health-risk behaviors and attitudes in youth over time to provide background data and to identify targets for health promotion initiatives. The second objective is to provide researchers with relevant information in order to understand and explain the development of health attitudes and behaviors through early adolescence. The study contains variables dealing with many types of drugs such as tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, and any other substances. The study examines the first time these substances were used and the frequency of their use. Other topics include questions about the person's health and other health behaviors. Some of these topics include eating habits, body image, health problems, family make-up, personal injuries, bullying, fighting, and bringing weapons to school. A school administrator and the lead health education teacher also completed individual surveys concerning school programs and policies that affect students' health and the content of various health courses.
 
Subject Term(s):adolescents, alcohol, body image, drug use, family relationships, health attitudes, health behavior, health care services, health education, injuries, nutrition, physical activity, physical appearance, school administrators, school age children, school violence, sexually transmitted disease, tobacco, tobacco
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:2001 - 2002, School year
 
Date(s) of Collection:2001 - 2002, School year
 
Unit of Observation:individual student
 
Universe:The universe consisted of public, Catholic, and other private school students in grades 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 or their equivalent in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Very small schools, those with an enrollment of less than 14, were excluded from the universe. These schools comprise about 1 percent of the school enrollment in the United States.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:Data were collected and prepared for release by Macro International Inc., Calverton, Maryland.
 
  Of the 15,245 participants, 57 cases were missing for a significant number of key variables (specified in the international HBSC protocol) and were consequently dropped from the file. In addition, responding students in sampled classes were excluded if they were out of the sample target range for their grade, if their age was extreme for their grade (age outside of the 1-99th percentile for a grade, n = 365 students), or for whom either grade or age were unknown (n = 6 students), yielding a sample of 14,817 students in the United States in grades 6 through 10.
 
  The public-use file documentation, included in the codebook, references several files that are not included in the ICPSR distribution.
 
  To protect the anonymity of respondents, all variables that could be used to identify individuals have been collapsed or recoded in the public use files. These modifications should not affect analytic uses of the public use files.
 

Methodology

Sample:This study employed a three-stage cluster design in which a school district (or a group of school districts) was the primary sampling unit (PSU) or first stage. The school was the second stage, and the classroom was the third stage.
 
Weight:The data file contains weights. Each valid respondent record was weighted by the inverse of the probability of having selected the respondent's school and classroom, and adjusted for school nonresponse and student nonresponse within classrooms. The weights were then trimmed and adjusted to national totals by ethnicity and grade level. A hotdeck approach was used to impute missing values (for weighting purposes only) for race and ethnicity, classifying the students into five categories: White, African-American, Hispanic, Asian and Native American. Totals were obtained for each race and grade level from the National Center for Educational Statistics' Web site. The weights were then adjusted so that totals for each race/grade category corresponded to national totals. The name of the weight variable in the dataset is STU_WT.
 
Mode of Data Collection:on-site questionnaire
 
Response Rates:Of the 548 schools selected, 204 schools did not respond. Extra schools were selected into the original sampling frame yielding a balance of 465 schools. From these 465 schools, 340 agreed to participate, yielding a participation rate of 73.2 percent. Within these schools, 18,620 students were eligible and 15,245 participated, yielding a student response rate of 81.9 percent. Of the 3,375 students who did not participate, 600 students did not return a consent form, 518 parents declined to allow their child to participate, and 1,620 students declined to participate. From the 340 schools that participated, a school administrator and lead health education teachers were asked to complete a survey. There were 329 questionnaires returned by a school administrator and 320 questionnaires returned by the lead health education teacher. A total of 317 schools returned both the administrator and teacher surveys.
 
Extent of Processing:Performed consistency checks.
 
  Created variable labels and/or value labels.
 
  Standardized missing values.
 
  Created online analysis version with question text.
 
  Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
 
  Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Restrictions:Users are reminded by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that these data are to be used solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information and not for the investigation of specific individuals.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2008-06-25
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2008-07-24.
 
  2008-07-24 - Refined coding logic used for the nine computed variables in the section Substance Use.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Health Behavior in School-Aged Children, 2001-2002 [United States]
 
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