I am not sure if someone has done this or not but...If anyone has the
time or interest it might be worthwhile to pull together an annotated
bibliography and put a small fact sheet together. It could separate the
universe of drivers by bus, over the road and the like. We could put it
on our website as a resource and also use it to identify when we might
call for further research. With something like this handy we could speak
more definitively on the topic.
I know we have a lot of students out there and this sounded like a topic
work pursuing. Is it?
Ellin Reisner wrote:
> There have also been many studies that have shown that bus operators
> have a very high incidence of heart disease and report high levels of
> stress. Their jobs are sedentary, but they have higher exposures to
> mobile pollution, stress from traffic, responsibility for safe driving
> and sometimes dealing with difficult passenger situations. Studies
> conducted over 20 years ago also reported high levels of smoking. A lot
> of this research was done at UC San Francisco.
>
> Ellin Reisner
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Phyllis ORRICK <phylliso@berkeley.edu
> <http://well-beingindex.com/files/Gallup-Healthways%20Index%20Methodology%20Report%20FINAL%203-25-08.pdf> to> <mailto:phylliso@berkeley.edu>> wrote:
>
> Interesting question, Sara.
>
> This is a SURVEY, not a study, fyi.
>
> Here's a link to their methodology page. While it doesn't say it
> weights by SES, they claim to have a representative sample. I'll
> leave the parsing to better minds than mine.
>
> Looking forward to the discussion.
>
> Phyllis
>
> http://www.well-beingindex.com/methodology.asp
>
> The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index tracks the well-being of U.S.
> residents throughout the year, interviewing no fewer than 500 U.S.
> adults nationwide each day, with the exception of major holidays.
> Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and
> cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for
> respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking.
>
> Each daily sample includes a minimum quota of 150 cell phone
> respondents and 850 landline respondents, with additional minimum
> quotas among landline respondents for gender within region. Landline
> respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis
> of which member had the most recent birthday.
>
> Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity,
> education, region, adults in the household, cell-phone-only status,
> cell-phone-mostly status, and phone lines. Demographic weighting
> targets are based on the March 2009 Current Population Survey
> figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population
> living in U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of
> sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and
> sample design.
>
> With the inclusion of the cell-phone-only households and the Spanish
> Language interviews, 98% of the adult population is represented in
> the sample. By comparison, typical landline-only methodologies
> represent approximately 85% of the adult population.
>
> In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical
> difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into
> the findings of public opinion polls.
>
> Click here
> download the formal methodology and Well-Being Index research report.> <http://www.safetrec.berkeley.edu/> (SafeTREC)
>
>
>
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