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Hawaii Health Survey (HHS)

The Hawaii Health Survey (HHS) is a continuous statewide household survey of health and socio-demographic conditions. The survey is conducted as a means of providing Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) programs, other agencies, and the public with statistics for planning and evaluation of health services, programs, and problems. The survey provides demographic information for observing population changes during the intercensal decade. It provides state and sub-area estimates of gender, age, income, race, education, household size, insurance status, health status, morbidity, and food security.

The HHS (initiated in 1968) was modeled after the National Health Information Survey. In 1996 it became a telephone survey; OHSM has contracted with SMS Research to conduct the survey. The respondent is an adult 18 years of age or older who is knowledgeable about their household, rather than a randomized adult. In 2004, 6,769 households (6,769 adult respondents that were aged 18 years of age or older) with 19,699 household members were surveyed. The sample data was adjusted and weighted to generate estimates of what could be expected for the population and the households in Hawaii for the year 2004. The total numbers are adjusted as households without telephones, Ni`ihau, group quarters, and the homeless are not represented (HHS Procedure Manual 2004).

The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT), as agreed upon with the U.S. Bureau of the Census, provides annual state and county estimates of the total population on gender, age, county, and household size. These population data were used to inflate (weight), the telephone sampling data.

Fractions were rounded by the computer to the nearest whole number resulting in totals that may differ from the sum of the individual numbers in the columns. In most cases, percentages were calculated by dividing the total for a particular category by the total of the entire column, including the answers "do not know" and "refused."

Health Data and Services from Vital Statistics, Hawaii Health Survey

2008 Survey Report Data (Tables and Figures)

2007 Survey Report Data (Tables and Figures)

2005 Survey Report Data (Tables and Figures)

2004 Survey Report Data (Tables and Figures)

2003 Survey Report Data (Tables and Figures)

2002 Survey Report Data (Tables and Figures)

2001 Survey Report Data (Tables and Figures)

2000 Survey Report Data (Tables)

1999 Survey Report Data (Tables)

1998 Survey Report Data (Tables)

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