The 2010 data release of the Community Health Data Base's Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey, the oldest and one of the largest regional health surveys in the U.S., is now available through the Penn Library Web!
The SEPA Household Health Survey microdata web page provides links to codebooks and SPSS sav format microdata files for PennKey-holding Penn students, faculty, and researchers. The Community Health Data Base Online Data Analysis Tool has not yet loaded the 2010 SEPA HHS data.
The SEPA Household Health Survey, conducted bienially by the Public Health Management Corporation, interviews approximately 10,000 households in Philadelphia and Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties, with oversamples of adults 60 and 75 years and older and also of Asian households. Both the SEPA Household Health Survey microdata web page and the Online Data Analysis Tool provide data from the SEPA HHS starting with the 2000 survey.
The SEPA Household Health Survey asks a core set of health indicator questions, covering health status, disease prevention and access to care, personal health behaviors, health insurance status, women's health, child health, and older adult health and social support needs. New questions for the 2010 SEPA HHS Survey include:
- Addiction and recovery experiences
- Attitudes about addiction
- Cigarette purchases
- Commuting
- Disability status
- HIV status
- Internet access and use
- Menu labeling
- Pet ownership among older adults
- Problem gambling behavior
- Sugary beverage consumption
For the 2010 SEPA HHS Survey, 10 percent of the sample interviews included cellphone users. More information on the range of SEPA HHS topics and findings may be found at the CHDB web site's CHDB Reports web page.
Access to the 2010 Southeast Pennsylvania Household Health Survey data is provided by a cooperative effort between the Penn Libraries and the Leonard Davis Institute and associated campus research centers. During the Spring 2010 semester, the Penn Libraries and its partners will present orientation programs for campus CHDB users. For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
For more information:
Lauris Olson, Social Sciences Bibliographer
