Kinder Houston Area Survey
Recent Submissions
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The Forty-First Year of the Kinder Houston Area Survey: At the Forefront of a Changing America
(2022)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, ... -
The Fortieth Year of the Kinder Houston Area Survey: Into the Post-Pandemic Future
(2021)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 ... -
The 2020 Kinder Houston Area Survey
(2020)For close to four decades, the Kinder Houston Area Survey has been tracking the changing attitudes and experiences of Houstonians. -
The 2019 Kinder Houston Area Survey: Tracking Responses to the Economic and Demographic Transformations Through 38 Years of Houston Surveys
(2019)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 ... -
What Accounts for Health Disparities? Findings from the Houston Surveys (2001-2013)
(2014)This 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, ... -
Shared Prospects: Hispanics and the Future of Houston
(2014)For 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 ... -
"Interesting Times" Transcription
(2014)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" -
The 2012 Houston Education Survey: Public Perceptions in a Critical Time
(2013)This 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 ... -
Houston Area Asian Survey: Diversity and Transformation Among Asians in Houston: Findings from the Kinder Institute's Houston Area Asian Survey (1995, 2002, 2011)
(2013)Drawing 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. -
The Houston Arts Survey: Participation, Perceptions, and Prospects
(2012)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? ...
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