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Abstract #165790

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Miriam L. King, PhD¹, Andrew C. Ward, MPH, PhD¹, and Pamela Jo Johnson, MPH, PhD². (1) Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 50 Willey Hall, 225 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, 612-624-5818, kingx025@umn.edu, (2) State Health Access Data Assistance Center, University of Minnesota, Health Services Research & Policy, 2221 University Ave SE, Suite 345, Minneapolis, MN 55414

The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is an important source of information on the health of the U.S. population, including health status, health behaviors, acute and chronic conditions, healthcare access and utilization, and health insurance coverage. Fielded annually since 1957, it is the longest running national health survey in the U.S. Nevertheless, because of the complexities of file structures, record linkages, and sampling weights, as well as changes in variables, the extraordinary potential of NHIS data for analyses of changing health status, behaviors, and healthcare use has rarely been realized. We report on the Integrated Health Interview Series (IHIS), a harmonized set of data and documentation based on the NHIS public use files from 1969 to the present. This integrated data series will facilitate both cross-sectional analyses and cross-time comparisons of these invaluable health survey data using composite coding schemes to recode variables across time. We illustrate the potential power of the IHIS using a cross-sectional analysis of several complex variables.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the issues in developing the Integrated Health Interview Series (IHIS);
• Learn how IHIS can be used in cross-sectional time series analyses to examine the health of the U.S. population from 1969-2005

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
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I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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