National Health Interview Survey

Alternate Titles(s): NHIS
UID: 10004

Description
The National Health Interview Survey is a cross-sectional household interview survey. Sampling and interviewing are continuous throughout each year. The sampling plan follows a multistage area probability design that permits the representative sampling of households and noninstitutional group quarters (e.g., college dormitories). NHIS addresses topics such as health status, use of health services, health behaviors, insurance coverage, access to care, measure of functioning, injuries and poisonings, immunizations, and conditions (e.g. asthma, diabetes, heart, mental health, cancer).
Publisher
Timeframe
1963 - Present
Geographic Coverage
United States
Subject Domain
Population Age
Adolescent (13 years - 18 years)
Adult (19 years - 64 years)
Senior (65 years - 79 years)
Aged (80 years and over)
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Access

Restrictions
Free to All
Instructions
NHIS Public Use data sets are available on the website. For each year the NHIS provides a description of the survey, a questionnaire reference guide, reports (if available), and a data release document. Within each data release document is a readme file, notices for data users, and links to the data for each category within the survey (e.g. household file, person file). Each category provides a summary, layout and frequencies of the variables and downloadable data files in ASCII format. Sample SAS, SPSS, and Stata statements are also included.
Data Type
Dataset Format(s)
SAS, Stata, ASCII, PDF, SUDAAN
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