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Item Metadata only The 43rd Kinder Houston Area Survey: Houston of Tomorrow: Perspectives from a city shaping America’s future(Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2024) Potter, Dan; Pren, Karen; Tobin, Alec; Perez, Katherine; Njeh, Joy; Glenzer, Anna; Williams, LeeThe 43rd annual Kinder Houston Area Survey provides an unparalleled look at current conditions in the region as well as the “Houston of Tomorrow.” While the same challenges that have weighed on the region over the last few years — crime and safety, the affordable housing, and the economy —remain at the forefront of people’s thinking, survey results show Houstonians are excited about the next 10 to 20 years and how emerging opportunities may reshape their lives, careers, and communities.Item Kinder Houston Area Survey: Forty-Two Years of Measuring Perceptions and Experiences of a Resilient City(Rice University, 2023) Potter, Daniel; Pren, Karen; Tobin, Alec; Perez, Katherine; Njeh, Joy; Kim, AndrewThe 2023 Kinder Houston Area Survey provides a glimpse into how Houstonians are thinking about the critical challenges and issues facing their communities. This year's survey reveals the cost of housing or the economy is the biggest problem facing the area, despite the fact that jobs have rebounded since the pandemic.Item 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 ResearchOver 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.Item 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 ResearchFor 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.Item The 2020 Kinder Houston Area Survey(Rice University, 2020) Klineberg, Stephen L.; Kinder Institute for Urban ResearchFor close to four decades, the Kinder Houston Area Survey has been tracking the changing attitudes and experiences of Houstonians.Item The 2019 Kinder Houston Area Survey: Tracking Responses to the Economic and Demographic Transformations Through 38 Years of Houston Surveys(Rice University, 2019) Klineberg, Stephen L.This report measures perspectives on Houston's local economy, social issues and demographic changes. It notes greater support for government programs to close the inequality gap and for increased funding to improve public schools. It also shows Houston-area residents are "increasingly embracing the region's burgeoning diversity," as they grow more comfortable with interethnic relationships and accepting of immigrants. The report concludes by measuring the ongoing changes in political orientations and shifting views on the direction in which the country is moving.Item The 2018 Kinder Houston Area Survey: Tracking responses to income inequalities, demographic transformations, and threatening storms(Rice University, 2018) Klineberg, Stephen L.Item The Kinder Houston Area Survey: Thirty-Six Years of Measuring Responses to a Changing America(Rice University, 2017) Klineberg, Stephen L.Item Thirty-five years of the Kinder Houston Area Survey: Tracking Responses to a Changing America(Rice University, 2016) Klineberg, Stephen L.Item The 34th Annual Kinder Houston Area Survey: Perspectives on a City in Transition(Rice University, 2015) Klineberg, Stephen L.Item What Accounts for Health Disparities? Findings from the Houston Surveys (2001-2013)(Rice University, 2014) Klineberg, Stephen L.; Wu, Jie; Barrera, CristinaThis report seeks to identify the forces that account for health disparities in the Houston region. It makes use of questions asked in the past 13 years of the annual “Kinder Institute Houston Area Survey” (KIHAS), buttressed by findings from the third of the institute’s three focused surveys, known as the SHEA studies (“Surveys of Health, Education, and the Arts”). Supported by a grant from Houston Endowment Inc., the studies were designed to assess the experiences, beliefs, and attitudes of Harris County residents with regard specifically to these important areas of urban life. The three separate surveys and the reports presenting their central findings complement the Kinder Institute’s continuing annual studies (the KIHAS), which have been tracking, through 33 years of systematic surveys (1982-2014), the demographic patterns, experiences, attitudes, and beliefs of Houston area residents during a period of remarkable change.Item Shared Prospects: Hispanics and the Future of Houston(Rice University, 2014) Klineberg, Stephen L.; Wu, Jie; Douds, Kiara; Ramirez, DianeFor the past 33 years, the Kinder Institute Houston Area Survey (KIHAS, 1982-2014) has been measuring systematically the economic and demographic trends in Harris County and recording the way area residents are responding to them. Since 1994, the surveys have been expanded to reach larger annual samples from the county’s major ethnic communities and have included questions about the respondents’ and their parents’ place of birth. In the past 21 years of surveys (1994-2014), the KIHAS has reached more than 4,800 U.S.-born Hispanics and 4,200 Latino immigrants. The rich data from this research provide a rare opportunity to explore systematically the experiences and perspectives of the different Hispanic communities over time and to assess their prospects for the future.Item The 33rd Kinder Institute Houston Area Survey: The Changing Face of the Houston Region(Rice University, 2014) Klineberg, Stephen L.Item "Interesting Times" Transcription(Rice University, 2014) Klineberg, Stephen L.Video titled "Interesting Times: Tracking Houston's Transformations Through 30 Years of Surveys";Transcription of an interview/documentary with Dr. Stephen L. Klineberg titled "Interesting Times: Tracking Houston's Transformations Through 30 Years of Surveys"Item The 2012 Houston Education Survey: Public Perceptions in a Critical Time(Rice University, 2013) Klineberg, Stephen L.; Wu, Jie; Douds, KiaraThis report presents some of the most important findings from the Houston Education Survey, the second of three focused surveys that are together called the “SHEA” studies (“Surveys of Health, Education, and the Arts”). Supported by a grant from Houston Endowment Inc., this research project was designed to assess the experiences, beliefs, and attitudes of Harris County residents with regard to these three critical areas of life in the Houston area. The separate surveys complement Rice University’s “Kinder Institute Houston Area Survey,” which for 32 years (1982-2013) has been tracking America’s fourth largest city in the midst of fundamental transformation.Item Houston Area Asian Survey: Diversity and Transformation Among Asians in Houston: Findings from the Kinder Institute's Houston Area Asian Survey (1995, 2002, 2011)(Rice University, 2013) Klineberg, Stephen L.; Wu, JieDrawing on three surveys taken of Houston's Asian population in 1995, 2002 and 2011, this report documents the distinctiveness of the Asian experience and explores the most important differences in life circumstances, attitudes and beliefs among the area's four largest Asian communities – Vietnamese, Indians/Pakistanis, Chinese/Taiwanese and Filipinos.Item The 32nd Kinder Institute Houston Area Survey: Tracking Responses to the Economic and Demographic Transformations(Rice University, 2013) Klineberg, Stephen L.Item The Houston Arts Survey: Participation, Perceptions, and Prospects(Rice University, 2012) Klineberg, Stephen L.; Wu, Jie; Aldape, Celina L.What issues most clearly determine their attendance (and non-attendance) at arts performances? How strongly do they support arts education in the public schools? How much importance do they attach to the arts in defining the quality of life in urban America? Which matters most to them – excellent music and theater or great sports teams and stadiums? How much support is there among Harris County residents in general for strengthening the quality and visibility of the arts in the Houston area? These are important questions to ask the general public, perhaps especially so today, at this remarkable moment in Houston’s history.Item The Kinder Houston Area Survey-2012: Perspectives on a city in transition(Rice University, 2012) Klineberg, Stephen L.Item The Kinder Houston Area Survey-2011: From the 30th Year of Houston Surveys(Rice University, 2011) Klineberg, Stephen L.