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Series
Reports |
Series 2, No.
130. Design and Estimation for the National Health Interview Survey, 1995-2004.
41 pp. (PHS) 2000-1330. GPO stock number and price forthcoming.
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This report presents an overview, a detailed description of the sample design features, and estimation structures for the 1995-2004 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). This report is intended to serve the same role for the current (1995-2004) National Health Interview Survey design as the NCHS publication, Series 2, No. 110,"Design and Estimation for the National Health Interview Survey, 1985-94," did for the previous design.
The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is one of the major data collection programs of NCHS. Through the NHIS, information concerning the health of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population is collected in household interviews throughout the United States. The NHIS has been in continuous operation since 1957, and its sample design has been reevaluated and modified following each of the last four decennial censuses of the U.S. population.
The NHIS provides estimates on health indicators, health care utilization and access, and health-related behaviors for the U.S. resident civilian noninstitutionalized population. Summary reports and reports on special topics for each year’s data are prepared by staff of NCHS’s Division of Health Interview Statistics for publication in Series 10 of the NCHS Vital and Health Statistics publications series. In Series 10 reports, basic NHIS survey estimates are published annually for various population subgroups including those defined by age, sex, race, family income, Census Region (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West), place of residence (central city of a metropolitan area, metropolitan area but not in a central city, and nonmetropolitan areas), and for other domains depending on the particular NHIS statistic. Statistics from the NHIS also appear in other NCHS reports, in professional journal articles, and in many other publications.
A more detailed description of the 1995-2004 NCHS design will appear in a forthcoming NCHS Series 2 report titled Design and Estimation for the National Health Interview Survey.
Keywords: sampling, weighting, nonresponse adjustment, variance estimation
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