•Survey conducted by Frederick Weil, Edward Shihadeh, and Matthew Lee of the Sociology Department at Louisiana State University. Interviews were done September 27 to November 29, 2005. Data are based on a random-digit-dialed telephone sample, representative of the general population age 18 and over
in East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, who already lived there before the hurricanes. Survey includes
1,349 completed interviews. The results are weighted to reflect the combined age-gender-race/Hispanic distributions, according to U.S. Census estimates for 2004. Data collection was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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