TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donald,Cathy A.
AU  - Ware,John E.
ED  - Rand Corporation.
ED  - United States.
TI  - The quantification of social contacts and resources
T2  - Health insurance experiment series
SN  - 0833004417 (pbk.)
AV  - RA418 .D655 1982
PY  - 1982///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - Health status indicators
KW  - United States
KW  - Health surveys
KW  - Social interaction
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Health Surveys
KW  - Social Behavior
N1  - "October 1982."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-228); Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - This report presents the results from empirical tests of strategies for scoring social well-being items fielded by RAND's Health Insurance Experiment (HIE).  Section II presents background material, a conceptual framework for social well-being measurements, an outline of measurement issues and strategies involved in quantifying questionnaire responses, and a summary of how other investigators have constructed social well-being measures. Section III describes the methodology used in the HIE.  Sections IV and V present results of empirical analyses, recommend a scoring rule for each of the 11 HIE social well-being items, and describe the results of scaling analyses including descriptive statistics, interrelationships among measures, the reliability of resulting scores, associations between social well-being measures and selected sociodemographic and health variables, and effects of socially desirable responding on social well-being measures.  Section VI discusses the findings and offers suggestions for future research based on the experiences with HIE measures
UR  - http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2937/
ER  -