Browsing by Author "Bozick, Robert"

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    The Fortieth Year of the Kinder Houston Area Survey: Into the Post-Pandemic Future
    (Rice University, 2021) Klineberg, Stephen L.; Bozick, Robert; Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    For the past four decades, Rice University's Kinder Houston Area Survey (KHAS) has been tracking systematically the continuities and changes in the attitudes and beliefs, opinions, and experiences of Harris County residents. More than 48,000 area residents have been interviewed, and the surveys have revealed important shifts in perspectives during this period of remarkable economic and demographic change. The final interviews for the 2020 survey were completed last year just days before Houston was hit by the yearlong health pandemic, economic shutdown, collapse in oil prices, and the killing of George Floyd, prompting a new sensitivity to systemic racism and concerns about the deepening inequalities in general. The 2021 survey enables us to ask in what specific ways and to what measurable extent have Harris County residents been personally impacted by the events of this remarkable year.
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    The Forty-First Year of the Kinder Houston Area Survey: At the Forefront of a Changing America
    (Rice University, 2022) Klineberg, Stephen L.; Bozick, Robert; Kinder Institute for Urban Research; Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    Over the course of the past forty-one years, the “Kinder Houston Area Survey” has been measuring systematically the attitudes, beliefs, demographic characteristics, and life experiences of successive representative samples of Harris County residents. The 2022 survey was conducted in Harris County during January and February of 2022, using a new, web-based survey methodology. It begins with an assessment of the top-of-the-head concerns of area residents, as traffic congestion subsides and economic anxieties re-emerge as “the biggest problem facing people in the Houston area today,” with crime a close second, followed by concerns about the COVID pandemic. It also assesses the deepening economic inequalities in this city, which have been exacerbated by the pandemic.