PHDCN: My Exposure to Violence Survey for Chicago Cohorts, 2000-2002

The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) collected this self-reported survey data on lifetime and past-year exposure to violent events. It involved over 6,000 randomly selected children, adolescents, and young adults from Cohorts 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18 during Wave 3 from 2000 to 2002. The study was led by Felton J. Earls of Harvard University.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between violence exposure and antisocial behavior based on longitudinal cohort data.
• Analyzing neighborhood-level effects on youth development using the large-scale, interdisciplinary study design.
• Studying lifetime versus past-year exposure to violence trends across different age cohorts.
• Comparing self-reported subject data with primary caregiver reports on child exposure to violence.

Strengths

• Longitudinal data following over 6,000 subjects across multiple age cohorts.
• Data collection is part of a large-scale, interdisciplinary study designed to examine family, school, and neighborhood effects.
• Includes both lifetime and past-year exposure measures for temporal analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Chicago-only study area.

Provenance

Source

Felton J. Earls, Harvard University, via the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN).

Collection Method

Subject self-report survey instrument administered as part of the PHDCN Longitudinal Cohort Study.

Time Range

2000-2002 (Wave 3)

Geography

Chicago neighborhoods, USA