New Hampshire
| Publication | Category | Topic |
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| Walking Builds Community Cohesion: Survey of Two New Hampshire Communities Looks at Social Capital and Walkability This brief reports the results of a survey conducted in 2009 of approximately 2,000 households in Portsmouth and Manchester, New Hampshire, to examine the connection between walkability and social capital.
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New Hampshire | Community, Income, New Hampshire |
| The Importance of Outdoor Activity and Place Attachment to Adolescent Development in Coös County, New Hampshire This brief discusses the rates of participation in structured and unstructured outdoor activities as Coös County youth age, along with the relationship between outdoor activity involvement and indicators of place attachment throughout this period. The analysis is… |
New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| New Hampshire Children in Need of Services: Impacts of 2011 Legislative Changes to CHINS Using administrative data from state and local agencies and data from interviews with CHINS professionals, this brief provides an overview of participation in the Children in Need of Services (CHINS) program before and after the change in the law in September 2011… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire | Children, Health, New Hampshire, Safety Net |
| Mental Health Among Northern New Hampshire Young Adults: Depression and Substance Problems Higher Than Nationwide This brief uses data on depressive and substance abuse symptoms from two surveys administered in 2011—the Coös Youth Study and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health—to compare mental health patterns among young adults in Coös County, New Hampshire, to patterns… |
New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Coös Youth with Mentors More Likely to Perceive Future Success This fact sheet explores whether Coös youths’ mentor experiences and their academic attitudes and well-being are linked. Authors Kent Scovill and Corinna Jenkins Tucker analyze data from the Coös Youth Study collected in 2008, focusing on seventh and eleventh grade… |
New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| 2012 National Child Poverty Rate Stagnates at 22.6 Percent In this brief, authors Marybeth Mattingly, Jessica Carson, and Andrew Schaefer use American Community Survey data released on September 19, 2012, to explore patterns of child poverty across states and place types, focusing on changes both since 2011 and since the… |
New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, New Hampshire, Poverty |
| Comparing Teen Substance Use in Northern New Hampshire to Rural Use Nationwide Using data administered in 2011 from the Carsey Institute’s Coös Youth Study and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, this brief compares teen substance use patterns in New Hampshire’s most rural county to patterns among rural youth nationwide.
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New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Granite Staters Weigh in on Renewable Energy Versus Drilling: Environmental Quality of Life Ranks High Across Party Lines Since the fall of 2001, the University of New Hampshire’s Survey Center has been conducting the Granite State Poll—a statewide, scientific survey of public opinion and behavior concerning policy issues—via telephone interviews with random samples of New Hampshire… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire | Environment, New Hampshire, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion |
| Sixty Percent of Coös Youth Report Having a Mentor in Their Lives In this brief, authors Kent Scovill and Corinna Jenkins Tucker describe Coös youths’ mentor relationships using data from the Carsey Institute’s Coös Youth Study collected in 2007. They report that, in 2007, a majority of Coös youth in seventh and eleventh grade (60.… |
New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| 2012 New Hampshire Civic Health Index The 2012 New Hampshire Civic Health Index follows earlier studies, including the New Hampshire Civic Index compiled by the NH Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in 2006 and the 2009 Civic Health Index published by the Carsey Institute in collaboration with… |
New Hampshire | Civic Attitudes, Health, New Hampshire |
