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2009 Survey Highlights2009 Houston Area Survey Highlights powerpoint image 2009Making Sense of Our Times:
Tracking the Economic and Demographic Changes Through 28 Years of Houston Surveys

April 2009

 

Reports

2008reportthumbFULLSIZEAn Historical Overview of Immigration in Houston, Based on the Houston Area Survey

2008

 

2007centfindthumbFULLSIZEHouston Area Survey (1982–2007):
Findings from the 26th Annual Survey

June 2007

2007regionalperspthumbFULLSIZERegional Perspectives:
Survey Research on the Differences in Demographic Patterns, Attitudes, and Beliefs across Six Major Sectors of the Houston Metropolitan Region

November 2007

2005reportthumbFULLSIZEPublic Perceptions in Remarkable Times:
Tracking Change Through 24 Years of Houston Surveys

2005

1996reportthumbFULLSIZEHouston's Ethnic Communities, Third Edition:
Updated and Expanded to Include the First-Ever Survey of Asian Communities

c. 1996

  

Data Files

(a) “HASBASIC (1982-2008)”: This file contains the full array of responses from the 27 years of basic random surveys. These are the data that enable the project to analyze the continuities and changes that have been occurring over the course of more than a quarter century among successive scientifically selected representative samples of Harris County residents.

(b) “HASTOTS (1994-2008)”: This data set contains the additional “oversample” surveys, conducted in 14 of the past 15 years (the one exception was 1996) to enlarge and equalize the annual samples of Anglo, African-American, and Hispanic respondents at approximately 500 each. It also includes the systematic surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002 with large representative samples of Houston’s Asian communities (with a quarter of the interviews conducted in Vietnamese, Mandarin, Cantonese, or Korean). The data contained in this file—based on interviews with a 15-year total of 7,100 Anglos; 6,591 Blacks; 6,595 Hispanics; and 1,309 Asians—are of particular value in assessing the similarities and differences that obtain both within and among Houston’s (and America’s) four major ethnic communities. The file also contains the 2000 census information (described below) associated with the home ZIP codes of each of the respondents.

(c) “HASCENSUS (2003-2008)”: Beginning in 2003, the surveys have incorporated additional detailed information from the 2000 census on the characteristics of the respondents’ neighborhoods. The data include—not only at the level of home ZIP code, but also by census tract and block group—the population and geographical size of the neighborhood, its distributions by ethnicity and immigrant status, its age and gender composition, its employment and commuting patterns, and its levels of education and income. With this information incorporated in the data sets for the past six years of expanded surveys, researchers are able to connect the respondents’ perceptions and experiences with vital data on the neighborhoods in which they live, thereby adding an important contextual dimension to analyses of the factors that predict individual differences in attitudes and beliefs. The full array of census data, complete for approximately 85 percent of all respondents, is contained in this third data file.