Here are the data sources and their corresponding codebooks. The data itself is available on the course P-drive. We will show you how to access the data sets during the third week of class.
Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey
(ABES): The Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey (ABES) was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the spring of 2021 to provide nationally representative data during a time when many students were attending school virtually due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The online questionnaire was designed to collect information on health-related experiences and behaviors among high school students (including physical activity, COVID-19 related experiences, emotional well-being, experiences related to perceived racism, drug/alcohol use, etc.)
(TRAFFICSTOP): Record of every single traffic stop in CT in 2024 — where it happened, why they were stopped, etc.
National Survey on Drug Use and Health
(NSDUH): NSDUH measures substance use, mental illness, and treatment in the civilian noninstitutionalized population 12 or older. The survey is taken annually and the most recent year of collection is 2024.
(MARS) created by Stuart Robbins, presents a global database that includes over 300,000 Mars craters 1 km or larger. Heavily cratered terrain on Mars was created between 4.2 and 3.8 billion years ago during a period of heavy bombardment (i.e. impacts of asteroids, proto-planets, and comets). Mars craters allow inferences into the ancient climate of Mars, and they add a key data point for the understanding of impact physics.
American National Election Studies
(ANES): The American National Election Studies (ANES) are academically-run national survey of voters in the United States, conducted before and after every presidential election. The most recent codebook is included from before and after the 2024 election. The survey includes questions about participants’ political and societal beliefs and general political knowledge. It also has information on media consumption, access to health care, mental/physical health, and much more.
(GSS): This survey is administered to a national sample each year. The intention is to gain insight for social indicator research. There are a lot of diverse topics available in GSS: from internet use, to sentiments about government spending, feelings about different ethnic/racial/gender groups, respondent demographics, feelings about crime and punishment, and much more. Students will search for topics from one specific year (that is, you must search topics that are asked within the same year). View the data explorer for a more comprehensive look at the available variables.
County Level Data, 2024
This is a collection of county-level data from 2024 that includes information about climate change beliefs (using data from Climate Change in the American Mind), weather data (from NOAA), simple voting data (from Ballotopedia), some estimates about various vulnerability measures within each county (from FEMA), and health metrics of each county (cancer rates, diabetes prevalence, etc., from Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System by the CDC).