Health and Well-being of Koreans

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Project Citation:

Lee, Sunghee. Health and Well-being of Koreans. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-07-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/E232822V1

Project Description

Summary: The Health and Well-Being of Koreans (HAWK) was a cross-sectional survey of adults ages 18 and older in the United States who are of Korean descent supported by the National Institute on Aging. The goal of HAWK was to implement Web-based respondent driven sampling (Web-RDS) is an extension of RDS, which exploits existing social networks for recruiting research participants, specifically, of small and hard-to-sample groups. In the case of HAWK, the target participants were of granular racial/ethnic minority groups. A total of 772 participated between May 2022 and January 2023. The participants were asked about COVID-19, physical as well as mental health, life satisfaction, health behaviors, healthcare coverage and utilization as well as social relations and networks along with socio-demographic characteristics. The questions mostly come from established surveys, such as the American Community Survey and the California Health Interview Survey. The questionnaires were provided in English and Korean, and participants self-selected the language that they preferred to complete the survey in. The data is expected to provide a broad overview of Korean Americans through the last stage of the Covid-19 pandemic. To protect respondent privacy and data confidentiality, peer recruitment information as well as sensitive information (e.g., citizenship), such variables were excluded from the current file and will be included in a dataset available through ICPSR in a restricted format. Because HAWK uses RDS, which does not follow the conventions of probability sampling, users are advised to exercise caution in making population-level inference with results from the analysis of HAWK data.

Funding Sources: United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (R21 AG062844)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Asian Americans; community health; disabilities; health behavior; immigrants; Korean Americans; mental health; physical condition; social networks; quality of life

Geographic Coverage: US

Time Period(s): 2022 – 2023

Collection Date(s): 5/2022 – 1/2023

Universe: Adults ages 18 and older in the United States who are of Korean descent

Data Type(s): survey data

Methodology

Response Rate: Not applicable

Sampling: Respondent driven sampling

Collection Mode(s): web-based survey

Scales: Following Likert-type scales were used:

Kessler Psychological Distress Scale
Satisfaction with Life Scale
UCLA Loneliness Scale

Weights: For degree-based weights in RDS, users are advised to use the inverse of the variable, P1_KOREAN_PUB.

Unit(s) of Observation: Individuals

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V1 [2025-07-17]

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