✅ The Understanding America Study (UAS)

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Purpose is a probability-based Internet panel housed at the Center for Economic and Social Research at the University of Southern California (USC). The UAS serves as a social and health sciences infrastructure for collecting data on the daily lives of US families and individuals. The collected information includes survey data, DNA from saliva samples, information from wearables, contextual and administrative linkages, ecological momentary assessments, self-recorded narratives and electronic records of financial transactions. The information collected focuses on a defining challenge of our time—identifying factors explaining racial, ethnic, geographic and socioeconomic disparities over the life course, including racial discrimination, inequalities in access to education and healthcare, differences in physical, economic and social environments, and, more generally, the ...

BMJ     Oct 24, 2024