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National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)

NHIS - Injury Summary

The National Health Interview Survey collects data on all medically attended injuries and poisonings occurring to any family member during the 3-month period prior to the interview. Information about the cause of the injury or poisoning episode, activity the person was doing at the time of the injury or poisoning episode, the place of occurrence, whether the person was hospitalized, whether the person missed any days from work or school due to the injury or poisoning, whether the injury or poisoning episode caused any limitation of activity, ICD-9-CM diagnostic codes, and ICD-9-CM external cause codes are available.

There is also narrative text taken verbatim from the respondent describing how the person was injured or poisoned. This information is available on injuries for data years 1997-2004 and poisonings for 2000 - present.

Publications

Summary Health Statistics for the U.S. Population: National Health Interview Survey, 2002. Series 10. No. 220

Tables with injury and poisoning estimates:

• Table 8. Crude annualized frequencies and age-adjusted annualized rates (with standard errors) of medically attended injury and poisoning episodes, by selected characteristics: United States, 2002
• Table 9. Crude annualized frequencies of medically attended injury and poisoning episodes, by external cause and selected characteristics: United States, 2002
• Table 10. Age-adjusted annualized rates (with standard errors) of medically attended injury and poisoning episodes, by external cause and selected characteristics: United States, 2002
• Table 11. Crude annualized frequencies of medically attended injury and poisoning episodes, by activity engaged in at the time of the episode and selected characteristics: United States, 2002
• Table 12. Age-adjusted annualized rates (with standard errors) of medically attended injury and poisoning episodes, by activity engaged in at the time of the episode and selected characteristics: United States, 2002
• Table 13. Crude annualized frequencies of medically attended injury and poisoning episodes, by place of occurrence and selected characteristics: United States, 2002
• Table 14. Age-adjusted annualized rates (with standard errors) of medically attended injury and poisoning episodes, by place of occurrence and selected characteristics: United States, 2002

Recent NHIS publications available online

Injury and poisoning episodes and conditions: National Health Interview Survey, 1997. Series 10. No. 202

This report provides a descriptive overview of the first year of data from the injury section of the redesigned NHIS. It documents the survey's design, methodologies, and presents detailed national estimates of medically attended nonfatal injury and poisoning episodes for 1997.

Injury Related Journal Articles

Conn JM, Annest JL, Gilchrist J. Sports and recreation related injury episodes in the US population, 1997-99. Inj Prev 9(2):117-23. June 2003.

Contact: JConn@cdc.gov

Ni H, Barnes P, Hardy P. Recreational injury and its relation to socioeconomic status among school aged children in the US. Injury Prevention 8:60-5. 2002.
Contact: PBarnes@cdc.gov

Presentations

National Health Interview Survey

Public Use Data

Beginning in 1997 the Family Core portion of the NHIS included questions about medically attended injuries and poisonings that occurred to any member of the family within a 3-month reference period. Injury and poisoning information was provided by the family respondent or the injured/poisoned person if present during the interview. In 1997, 1998, and 1999, three data files containing injury information (Injury Episode, Verbatim Injury Episode, and Person) and two files containing poisoning information (Poison Episode and Person) were made available to the public. In 2000, 2001, and 2002, two files containing injury and poisoning information (Injury/Poisoning Episode and Verbatim Injury/Poisoning Episode) were created from the NHIS data.

During data years 1997-99, a person may have up to four injury episodes and four poisoning episodes and will be represented in the files as many times as he/she had unique injury and/or poisoning episodes. During data years 2000-2001, a person could record up to a total of 10 injury and/or poisoning episodes and will be represented in the files as many times as he/she had unique injury and/or poisoning episodes.

The Injury Episode, Poison Episode, Injury/Poisoning Episode, Verbatim Injury Episode, and Verbatim Injury/Poisoning Episode files are episode-based files: each injury and poisoning episode occurred during the 3 months prior to the interview and resulted in one or more conditions that were medically attended.

Downloadable datasets for years 1997 - most recent

Additional information available on Web:

• Survey description
• Dataset documentation
• SAS and SPSS statements

Survey questionnaires, flashcards, field representative manual, and survey flow charts

CD-ROM single year ASCII files from 1969-2002 can be obtained by contacting the Information Dissemination Staff at (301) 458-4000, toll free 1-866-441-6247, or by email at NCHSquery@cdc.gov.

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