Summary-
This is a survey portion of PHDCN that focuses on resident's opinions of their neighborhood. Access to the data set is restricted, although documentation information is available, this includes codebooks, questionnaires, and detailed descriptions of methodology and sampling design.

Author or Organization
Felton J. Earls, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Stephen W. Raudenbush, Robert J. Sampson

Geographic Area Covered and Level of Analysis
This focuses on Chicago's community areas and is focused on 343 neighborhood clusters based on Chicago's 825 census tracts.

Year(s)
1994-1995

Sample Size, Design, and Methodology
Sampling was based on a random sample of adults within neighborhood clusters. The questions are most often use a Likert-Scale.
There is a more detailed explanation of this found in the codebook for the survey, this can be found on the ICPSR site and is linked at the bottom of the page.


Variables Covered

The questions on the survey relate to individual residents' opinions of their neighborhood. This includes a self-description of what respondents call their neighborhood, what they describe the boundaries to be, and how long respondents have lived in the area. The respondents also answer questions about perceived views of violence, drug use, graffiti, and other crime and victimization characteristics of the neighborhood. Questions on relationships to neighbors such as the number of neighbors the respondent could recognize, and how often respondents socialize with neighbors are also included. The survey questionnairre is available for download from ICPSR.

Other Sources of Similar Information External Links
ICPSR link- Survey citation and data description

A good amount of literature has been produced using data from this survey a good description of these works can be found here:
-PHDCN Community Survey Related Literature (From the ICPSR website).