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5 survey data sets: 1 for Cook County (the entire city of Chicago and the first suburban ring) and 4 community areas within the city of Chicago. The areas have been assigned pseudonyms: Shoreland, an area of young singles and gay male concentration, middle to upper-middle-class; L-Side, an area of Mexican immigrant and Mexican-American concentration, working-class; Erlinda, an area of mixed Hispanic concentration with a Puerto Rican public identity, working-class; and Southtown, an African-American neighborhood of mixed lower, working and middle-class residents.
All Erlinda cases were collected during 1997, it was a later-funded neighborhood area. The bulk of the cases from the other four samples were collected during 1995, but the field was re-opened for these areas in 1997 to boost response rates and numbers of cases. Respondents were non-institutionalized adults ages 18-59 who spoke either English or Spanish with enough fluency to conduct an interview. Bilingual interviewers and Spanish-language instruments were available for Spanish-speaking respondents. Surveys were conducted in-person using computer-assisted personal interview technology (CAPI). Samples were drawn using area-probability methods. Field operations were conducted by the National Opinion Research Center affiliated with the University of Chicago.
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| Abstract: |
Sexual behavior underlies many important health issues such as non-marital fertility among teens and sexually transmitted disease. Social norms structure both sexual behavior itself and responses to related outcomes such as unwanted pregnancies, infertility or sexual dysfunction, but too little is known about how sexual behavior is socially organized among adults. The purpose of this research project is to advance the social scientific understanding of adult sexual behavior in the United States through the analysis of four related data sets. The first, a survey data set based on a 3,432 person 1992 U.S. national sample, is the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS), and includes a wide range of information pertinent to both descriptive and analytic issues about adult sexual behavior and attitudes. A second set of data derives from an 11-question self-administered module included as part of the NHSLS and in six rounds of the national General Social Survey (GSS) for a total of 12,000 cases over six data sets. A third, is called the Chicago Health and Social Life Survey (CHSLS), and contains important elaborations and extensions to the NHSLS. The CHSLS has a survey component of 2,114 cases divided between a representative cross-section of the Chicago metropolitan area (N=890) and a set of four over samples in ethnically and socially distinctive urban neighborhoods (N=1224). The fourth data set, also new, is made up of ethnographic field notes and key informant interview notes from open-ended discussions with persons at institutions that deal with health and sexuality in these same four neighborhoods.
The aim is to understand sexual behavior itself, its causes and its consequences. The broad range of our interests include; (a) the socially orchestrated number and selection of sex partners and their social relationships to the respondent (b) the practices and preferences that constitute sexual conduct and its evaluation by individuals and institutions, and the consequences of sexual behavior for marriage and living arrangements, fertility, disease, sexual dysfunction and sexual pleasure and emotional gratification.
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| Sample Citations: |
Stephen Ellingson, Edward O. Laumann, Anthony Paik, and Jenna Mahay, The Theory of Sex Markets, Chapter 1 in "The Sexual Organization of the City." Forthcoming, 2004. Edited by Edward O. Laumann, Steven Ellingson, Jenna Mahay, Anthony Paik, and Yoosik Youm. University of Chicago Press. [ Full Text Link ]
MarthaVan Haitsma, Anthony Paik, and Edward O. Laumann, The Chicago Health and Social Life Survey Design, Chapter 2 in "The Sexual Organization of the City." Forthcoming, 2004. Edited by Edward O. Laumann, Steven Ellingson, Jenna Mahay, Anthony Paik, and Yoosik Youm. University of Chicago Press. [ Full Text Link ]
Steven Ellingson, Nelson Tebber, Martha Van Haitsma, and Edward O. Laumann, "Religion and the politics of sexuality." Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the Association for the Study of Religion, Toronto, Canada, August 8-10, 1997. Extensively revised, June 1999.
Stephen Ellingson and Kirby Schroeder, "Race and the construction of same-sex markets in four Chicago neighbors," Working Paper, Chicago Health and Social Life Survey, June 1999.
Jenna Mahay and Edward O. Laumann, "Sexual partnering and homophilous outcomes." Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, New York City, April 25-27, 1999.
Jenna Mahay, "Sexual partnering strategies and the sexual marketplace over the lifecourse." Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 6-10, 1999.
Anthony Paik, Martha van Haitsma, and Edward O. Laumann, "Sexual jealousy and intimate partner violence: The important of commitments in sexual relationships." Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, New York City, April 25-27, 1999.
Yoosik Youm and Edward O. Laumann, "Accounting for the household division of labor: The role of trust in specifying the relevance of neoclassical economics, power-dependency, and gender theory explanations." Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 6-10, 1999. Under review at the American Journal of Sociology.
Edward O. Laumann, Jenna Mahay, Anthony Paik, and Yoosik Youm, "Network data collection and its relevance for the analysis of STDs: The NHSLS and the CHSLS," in "Proceedings of the Conference on Partnerships, Networks and the Spread of HIV and other Infections," Martina Morris (ed.). London: Oxford University Press (in press).
Edward O. Laumann and L. Philip Schumm, "Measuring Social Networks Using Samples: Is Network Analysis Relevant to Survey Research," in "Researching Sexual Behavior," John Bancroft (ed.), pp. 390-416. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. 1997.
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