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The National Wellbeing Survey: A Data Resource for Research on Rural Working-Age Adults Shannon Monnat*, Shannon Monnat, Joshua Grove,

Many national surveys lack adequate rural sample sizes or geographic identifiers needed to study rural-urban or within-rural differences. This poster summarizes the utility of the National Wellbeing Survey (NWS)—a relatively new publicly available annual cross-sectional survey of U.S. adults ages 18–64 fielded from 2021 through 2025. Annual samples range from 4,000 to 7,000 respondents, with a pooled sample of nearly 33,000 across over 1,700 counties. The NWS oversamples residents of nonmetropolitan counties, includes USDA Rural-Urban Continuum Codes and self-reported rurality measures, and provides state and county FIPS codes for linkage to contextual data. Survey domains include psychosocial wellbeing, physical health, chronic conditions, health behaviors, and employment.