Survey of Community, Crime, and Health, 1995, 1998 [United States]

The Survey of Community, Crime, and Health (CCH) was
conducted in 1995 and 1998 in Illinois to examine the relationship
between neighborhood disadvantage and physical and mental health,
(over and above individual socio-economic characteristics), in order
to develop a measure of perceived neighborhood disorder and to explore
its role in explaining that relationship. Interviews were conducted
with 2,482 respondents and covered topics such as physical health,
mental health, health behaviors, use of services, and sense of
control. Also examined were social support, perceived neighborhood
characteristics, neighborhood social support, and personal and
household demographics. In addition to individual-level variables,
Wave I of the CCH contains a number of community-level variables that
were created from the 1990 STF Census data. Variable names starting
with T are tract-level, variables starting with C are county-level,
and variables starting with P are city-level.