National Survey of American Life |
2000-2003
(Adult Interview) |
A nationally representative sample of 6,082 American adults who live in areas with black majority populations. |
2000-2003
(Adolescent Interview) |
1,170 adolescents aged 13-17 who resided in the household where an adult interview was conducted. |
2004-2005
(3-Gen) |
A telephone survey of 2,303 NSAL adults in three-generation family lineages and their 2 family members which formed 388 triads and 450 dyads. |
National Politics Study |
2004 |
A national telephone study of 3,339 adults representing five diverse ethnic groups. |
| 2006 |
A follow-up study with 1,486 of the original NMES respondents. |
| National Survey of Black Americans |
1979-1980
(NSBA Wave I) |
A national household survey of 2,107 black American adults. |
| 1979-1981 |
A national household and telephone survey of 2,497 NSBA adults in three-generation family lineages and their 2 family members which formed 510 family triads. |
1987-1988
(NSBA Wave II) |
A telephone survey follow-up of 951 adults, 935 of whom were interviewed in the original NSBA. |
1988-1989
(NSBA Wave III) |
A telephone survey follow-up of 793 adults, 779 of whom were interviewed in the 1979-1980 NSBA. |
1992
(NSBA Wave IV) |
A telephone survery follow-up of 659 adults, 652 of whom were interviewed in earlier waves. |
National Black Election Study |
1984
(NBES) |
A national telephone survey of 1,150 pre- and 872 post-election black American adults. |
1984-1988
(NBESP) |
A telephone survey follow-up of 473 pre-election and 392 post-election respondents previously interviewed in 1984 |
Americans' Changing Lives |
1986
(ACL) |
A survey of productivity and effective functioning on approximately 3,600 adult Americans 25 years of age and older. Africans Americans were over-sampled and represent nearly a third of the survey. |
1989
(ACL Wave II) |
A telephone survey follow-up of 2,867 adults interviewed in the original ACL. |
1994
(ACL Wave III) |
A five-year telephone survey follow-up of 2,562 adults interviewed in the 1989 survery. Approximately 2,398 cases were self-reported while about 164 were proxy-reported interviews. |
Prevalence of Mental Disorder in Michigan Prisons |
1987
(PMDMP) |
A psychiatric epidemiological survey of 1,070 inmates in 63 Michigan prisons, prison camps, correction centers and residence homes. |
International Perspectives on Racism |
1988 - 1989
(IPR) |
A Fall supplement to the bi-annual European Barometer Survey of 12 European Economic Commission member countries. Approximately 12,000 respondents, 15 years of age and older, were interviewed in their homes. |
Ethnic Influences on Psychiatric Diagnosis |
1991-1995 |
Investigation of whether black-white differences in schizophrenia and affective disorders are due to the differential application of diagnostic criteria or to race differences in symptom presentation. Approximately 1,500 adult inpatients were interviewed using a test/retest format with either a clinician structured interview or an interview based on the DSM-III-R Checklist. Data were also collected from patient charts and a psychiatric history file maintained at the Detroit Psychiatric Institute (DPI). |
Future of Black Civil Rights |
1992
(FBCR) |
A national telephone survey of 1,211 balck American adults focused on their perceptions and attitudes toward Civil Rights organizations and needs in the African American population |
Detroit Psychiatric Institute Diagnostic Study |
1992-4
(DPID) |
The research design uses a test/retest format employing black and white clinicians and structured and unstructured diagnostic research instruments in a sample of over 800 adult inpatients as part of the AAMHRC study of racial influenaces on diagnosis. |
National Black Politics Survey |
1993-4
(NBPS) |
A national telephone study of 1,206 African American adults, conducted by African American interviewers, which focused on political attitudes, politics, and religion. |
Families in Transition |
1993-6
(FIT) |
A face-to-face race comparative investigation in approximately 75 families of the mental health consequences of early teen childbearing on infant mental health and the mental health functioning of the mother and father of the baby and intergenerational family members. |
Detroit Area Survey: Health and Social Issues |
1995
(DAS) |
A face-to-face race
comparative investigation of the health and mental
health consequences of the perceptions of inequality
among 1,139 adults and adolescents in the greater
Detroit metropolitan area. |
