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Health Care Contact Starting in 1997 the National Health Interview Survey collected information on health care contacts with doctors and other health care professionals using the following questions:
For
each question respondents were shown a flashcard with response categories
of 0, 1, 2-3, 4-9, 10-12, or 13 or more visits in 1997-99. Starting in
2000 response categories were expanded to: 0, 1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9,
10-12, 13-15, 16 or more. Analyses of the percent of persons with health
care visits were tabulated as follows: For tabulation of the 1997-99 data,
responses of 2-3 were recoded to 2 and responses of 4-9 were recoded to 6.
Starting in 2000 tabulation of responses of 2-3 were recoded to 2 and
other responses were recoded to the midpoint of the range. A summary
measure of health care visits was constructed by adding recoded responses
for these questions and categorizing the sum as: none, 1-3, 4-9, or 10 or
more health care visits in the past 12 months.
SOURCE: Health, United States Related Links
This page last reviewed
January 11, 2007
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