DataSet

Tecumseh Community Health Study

The Tecumseh project has conducted over 80 different studies, including both disease-specific investigations and studies concerned with the prevalence and incidence of disease in this community. Mortality status of all persons at the time of attempted or actual contact in Round III is also provided. Tecumseh, Michigan was chosen as the sample site for this data collection effort, in part because of the representative nature of its size and population, and in part because of the willingness of community leaders and medical professionals to participate in a comprehensive prospective epidemiological investigation. Throughout the 1970's and 1980's, many epidemiological studies were conducted on subsets of the Tecumseh population. The questionnaires, data, and documentation for these studies are maintained by the Tecumseh Management Committee at the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan.

Epidemiology; epidemiologic factors; epidemiologic measurements; family characteristics; health behavior; health status; medical history taking; physical examination.

The data format consists of flat or unit record data file structure. No customized data sets are available. Technical description of file: Cases: 8,637, Variables: 808, Record length: 1,280, Records per case: 1. The collection consists of data tape, published articles, univariate statistics and frequencies of variables, questionnaires and had electronically accessible documentation 400 page ICPSR documentation.

Tecumseh, Michigan

longitudinal, ongoing prospective epidemiologic study

DMD magnetic tape

personal interview and transcribing from patient chart

Data have been collected on the Tecumseh population in southeast Michigan for over 30 years, beginning with a 1957 canvas of all households and adding all newcomers to the community until 1970, after which only previous residents have been followed. All 8,800 residents of 2,400 households in 1957 were canvassed. In each of three rounds of data collection (1959-1960, 1962-1965, and 1967-1969), interviews and medical examinations were conducted with remaining and new household residents, yielding a total of 11,563 persons who were examined at least once and 4,312 who were examined during all three rounds. The current data file contains data for only the 8,637 Caucasian residents who were first examined at Round I. Midwest communities of average size combining industrial and rural populations.

infant, newborn (birth to 1 month), infant (1-23 months), child, preschool (2-5 years), child (6-12 years), adolescent (13-18 years), adult (19-44 years), middle aged (45 to 64), aged (65 and older), aged, 80 and over (80 and over)

In the context of a natural, total community, to observe people of all ages, as individuals,members of families, and various social groupings, to determine the factors which preserve health and predispose toward disease.

Reference: Napier, John A., Benjamin C. Johnson, and Frederick H. Epstein. The Tecumseh Michigan Community Health Study. The Community as an Epidemiologic Laboratory: A Casebook of Community Studies, Irving I. Kessler and Morton L. Levin, eds. 1970. Napier, John A. Field methods and response rates in the Tecumseh community health study. Am J Public Health. 1962 Feb;52(): 208-216. House JS, Robbins C, Metzner HL. The association of social relationships and activities with mortality: prospective evidence from the Tecumseh Community Health Study. Am J Epidemiol. 1982 Jul;116(1):123-140. Carman WJ, Sowers M, Hawthorne VM, Weissfeld LA. Obesity as a risk factor for osteoarthritis of the hand and wrist: a prospective study. Am J Epidemiol. 1994 Jan 15;139(2):119-129.

baseline medical history interviews, medical examinations,clinical measurements,laboratory work, and electrocardiograms

1) Individual:identification, demographic, marital, education, income, religious, employment, family medical history, medical history, health status, medications, surgery, injury, physical exam/dates, lab tests/dates/results, health-related behaviors, imaging tests/dates/results, diagnostic tests/dates/results; 2) Family: composition, education.

Round I:1959-1960, Round II: 1962-1965, and Round III: 1967-1969

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