165784 NHIS: Celebrating 50 Years of Success and Planning for the Future

Monday, November 5, 2007: 4:30 PM

Jane F. Gentleman, PhD , National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD
     
The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), conducted for 50 years by the National Center for Health Statistics, is a multi-purpose health survey of the civilian, noninstututionalized household population of the U.S. Its stable core and annually-changing supplementary specialized questions provide rich multivariate data for numerous types of users. Core topics include health status, limitation of activities, health care access and utilization, health insurance coverage, socio-demographic information, and income. Supplement sponsors have included the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, numerous Institutes from the National Institutes of Health, and various other government agencies. This talk will describe the rich multivariate NHIS data, the analytic products produced from those data, the annual NHIS supplements, and expectations and hopes for the future of the NHIS.

Learning Objectives:
1) Provide an overview of the core and annually-changing specialized questions in the NHIS; 2) Outline expectations and hopes for the future of the NHIS

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
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