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Advance Data
Data Briefs
Errata List
Monthly Vital Statistics Reports
NCHS Health E-Stats
National Health Statistics Reports
National Vital Statistics Reports
Vital and Health Statistics Series
Vital Statistics of the United States
Health, United States
Healthy People 2000
Life Tables
Other Publications
Notice! Effective January 2008 Advance Data from Vital and Health
Statistics (AD) has been renamed National Health Statistics Reports
(NHSR). The last AD report number is 395. NHSRs will be numbered sequentially
beginning with 1.
- Timely analyses of data from surveys and data collection systems
- About 20 issued per year, on irregular time basis
- Usually 8 - 24 pages
Data briefs are statistical publications that provide information about
current public health topics in a straightforward format. Each report takes a
complex data subject and summarizes it into text and graphics that provide
readers with easily comprehensible information in a compact publication.
- Changes or revisions to previously published reports
Effective with Vol. 47, No. 1, the Monthly Vital Statistics Report (MVSR)
has been renamed the National Vital Statistics Reports (NVSR)
- Monthly issues of birth death, marriage, and divorce provisional
statistics
- Four to six supplements per year including final data for the previous
year, final data for births, final data for deaths, and special topic
analyses from time to time
- Detailed reports of births and deaths based on preliminary data produced
biannually. For data through 1994, an annual summary of provisional data was
published
- Internet-only releases on current and timely health topics
- Features highlights from all NCHS data systems
Notice! Effective January 2008 Advance Data from Vital and Health
Statistics (AD) has been renamed National Health Statistics Reports
(NHSR). The last AD report number is 395. NHSRs will be numbered sequentially
beginning with 1.
- Provide annual data summaries
- Present analyses of health topics
- Present new information on methods or measurement issues
Effective with Vol. 47, No. 1, the Monthly Vital Statistics Report (MVSR) has
been renamed the National Vital Statistics Reports (NVSR)
- Provisional statistics for birth, death, marriage, and divorce
- Four to six special reports are issued per year
- Special reports cover final data on births for the previous year
and special topic analyses
- Each series presents data analyses for a data collection system or a
family of related systems
- Some series include annual issues, other reports are focused on special
analysis, others offer summaries of annual surveys
- Usually 30 - 400 pages
- Final, detailed data on deaths, births, and marriage and divorce
- Birth and death bound volumes published yearly 1960-1993
- Bound books, death volume is divided into two books
- Prior to 1960 vital statistics rates were published in two summary
volumes 1900-1940 and 1940-1960
- Data on births and deaths published only in electronic format beginning
1994
- Compendium of health status, health care resource use, and vital
statistics from DHHS agencies
- Annual report of about 500 pages
- Annual report presents statistical tracking of progress towards goals
- Two newsletters issued from time to time: Statistical Notes present
special topics; Statistics and Surveillance presents technical collection
topics
- Decennial volumes every 10 years issued with one volume for each State
- Life expectancy for the United States by age
- Issued annually
- About 20 pages
- Proceedings of NCHS sponsored/cosponsored conferences
- One time analysis of special topics
- Guidance for obtaining or (for health professionals) completing
birth/death certificates
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