Healthcare-Seeking in Germany (HEALSEE)
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5248 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12845
Abstract: Decision making is a core feature of human life. A common problem that people often encounter over the course of life is what to do in the event of sickness. Since illness has a major influence on people’s lives, studying healthcare-seeking is of vital importance. Moreover, patients’ decisions about healthcare fundamentally determine the performance of the overall healthcare system in terms of a population’s health, the quality of healthcare services, and the level of expenditures. Even though illness behaviour has been an intensively studied research topic over the past five decades, previous ... more Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 15.04.2015 - 17.10.2015
Geographic coverage: Germany (DE)
Universe: German-speaking persons aged between 40 and 75 years in private households
The persons were considered irrespective of their nationality, that is, both German and non-German persons are included in the universe.
Number of Units: 3000
Sampling Procedure: Probability Sample: Multistage Sample Mode of Data Collection: First survey: Telephone interview: CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interview)
Follow-up surveys: Self-administered questionnaire: Paper Data Collector: infas Institut für angewandte Sozialforschung, Bonn
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Number of Variables: 359 (Hauptbefragung), 95 (Folgebefragung)
Bibliographic information
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Wendt, Claus - Universität Siegen | Reibling, Nadine - Universität Siegen | Mischke, Monika - Universität Siegen | Böhr, Dorothea - Universität Siegen
Publication year: 2017
DOI: 10.4232/1.12845
Study number: ZA5248
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Versions
Current Version: 1.0.0, 2017-08-02, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12845
Version history: ... more Reference publications
Publications: infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft:
´Healthcare-Seeking in Germany / Entscheidungsverhalten im Krankheitsfall´ (Healsee) - Haupterhebung 2015.
Bonn: Methodenbericht 2016
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