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NHIS QUESTIONNAIRES AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET

Questionnaires from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) are available for viewing and/or downloading via the Internet as follows:

1962 - 1996:

For each NHIS data year from 1962 to 1996, one of the documents that was released was called "Current Estimates from the (National) Health Interview Survey". These Current Estimates documents contained tables for each year's data. In addition, Appendix III in each Current Estimates document contains an image of the questionnaires used for that data year. The Current Estimate documents were released as part of the Series 10 group of documents from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The full list of Series 10 reports can be seen at the NHIS home page and, under the heading "Reports", click on "Vital and Health Statistics, Series 10 Reports (including Summary Statistics Reports)". The following list shows the issue number for each year's NHIS Current Estimates document:

   1962: Series 10, No.   5 (FY 1963)
   1963: Series 10, No.  13 (FY 1964)
   1964: Series 10, No.  25 (FY 1965)
   1965: Series 10, No.  37 (FY 1966)
   1966: Series 10, No.  43 (FY 1967)
   1967: Series 10, No.  52
   1968: Series 10, No.  60*
   1969: Series 10, No.  63
   1970: Series 10, No.  72
   1971: Series 10, No.  79
   1972: Series 10, No.  85
   1973: Series 10, No.  95
   1974: Series 10, No. 100
   1975: Series 10, No. 115
   1976: Series 10, No. 119
   1977: Series 10, No. 126
   1978: Series 10, No. 130
   1979: Series 10, No. 136
   1980: Series 10, No. 139
   1981: Series 10, No. 141
   1982: Series 10, No. 150
   1983: Series 10, No. 154
   1984: Series 10, No. 156
   1985: Series 10, No. 160
   1986: Series 10, No. 164**
   1987: Series 10, No. 166
   1988: Series 10, No. 173
   1989: Series 10, No. 176
   1990: Series 10, No. 181
   1991: Series 10, No. 184
   1992: Series 10, No. 189
   1993: Series 10, No. 190
   1994: Series 10, No. 193
   1995: Series 10, No. 199
   1996: Series 10, No. 200

* 1968: Four different questionnaires were used during the July 1967 - June 1968 (fiscal year 1968) and July 1968 - December 1968 (transition to calendar year) periods. Series 10, No. 60  contains one of the 1968 NHIS person approach questionnaires, dated 4-25-68, which was used during the July-December 1968 period. Another of the 1968 NHIS person approach questionnaires, dated 5-19-67, can be found as appendix IV to an NCHS publication titled "Interviewing Methods in the Health Interview Survey". This questionnaire was used during the July-December 1967 period.
Two other NHIS questionnaires used during the July 1967 - June 1968 period (fiscal year 1968 condition approach questionnaire, person approach questionnaire dated 12-1-67, used January-June 1968) are available.

**1986: Please note, the questionnaire in Appendix III of Series 10, Number 164, is the 1985 questionnaire, not the 1986 questionnaire, after page 1. The complete 1986 questionnaire is available here.

1997-present: 

For NHIS data years from 1997 to the present, questionnaires can be obtained by going to the NHIS data page and, under the desired data year, click on the category that includes Survey Questionnaires.  The questionnaires will all then be shown as documents that begin with the letter 'q'.
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