Description:
The second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, NHANES II, is
a nationwide probability sample of 27,801 persons from 6 months-74 years
of age. From this sample, 25,286 people were interviewed and 20,322 people were examined, resulting in an
overall response rate of 73 percent. Because children and persons
classified as living at or below the poverty level were assumed to be at
special risk of having nutritional problems, they were sampled at rates
substantially higher than their proportions in the general population.
Adjusted sampling weights were computed within 76 age-sex income groups in
order to inflate the sample to closely reflect the target population at
the midpoint of the survey.
Data from NHANES II are
organized by subject matter. The data files comprising the NHANES II
include a number of demographic and socioeconomic variables on each tape
including age, gender, race, ethnicity, income, education, and marital
status.
Data
and Documentation/Codebook Files:
(NOTE for Data files: Clicking on the hyperlinks below will download
self-extracting zip files from our FTP site. The zip files include
the items listed after each hyperlink.) (NOTE
for Documentation/ Codebook files:
All files are in PDF
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