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The Kinder Institute for Urban Research, MS-208
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005


Phone: 713-348-4132
Fax: 713-348-4343
Email: kinder@rice.edu

The Houston Area Survey on Health, Education, and the Arts (SHEA)

Survey Topics

Here are the categories of questions asked in the three core areas of the SHEA study.

Arts

SHEA-Arts
  1. Free-time activities
  2. Arts attendance
    • Reasons for attending arts and cultural events.
    • Reasons for not attending arts and cultural events.
  3. Participation in the arts through new media
  4. Arts practice and learning
  5. Importance of the arts for Houston
  6. Arts philanthropy
  7. Arts and cultural differences
  8. Arts education
  9. Arts funding
  10. Support for public policy intitiatives.
  11. Personal attributes
    • Family circumstances
    • Socioeconomic status
    • Migration patterns
    • Religion and politics

Education

SHEA-Education
  1. Assessments of local conditions
  2. Assessments of local schools
  3. Government spending
  4. Cutting educational spending
  5. Post-secondary education
  6. Educational initiatives / policy alternatives
  7. Educational comparisons
  8. Educational disparities
  9. Personal experience with schools as a parent
  10. Personal attributes
    • Family circumstances
    • Socioeconomic status
    • Migration patterns
    • Religion and politics

Health

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  1. Personal health status and well-being
  2. Access to health care
    • Location of care
    • Reasons for not getting care
    • Health insurance provider
  3. Health-related neighborhood characteristics
  4. Access to healthy foods
  5. Green spaces and physical activities
  6. Access to health care for children
  7. Family dynamics: children and the elderly
  8. Environmental risks
  9. Health disparities
    • Factors contributing to overall health
    • Affordable health care
  10. Personal attributes
    • Family circumstances
    • Socioeconomic status
    • Migration patterns
    • Religion and politics 

- Last updated on January 28, 2013