DOI: 10.3886/icpsr08223.v5
title: Health Interview Survey, 1980
title: Version 5

description: The basic purpose of the Health Interview Survey is to obtain information about the amount and distribution of illness, its effects in terms of disability and chronic impairments, and the kinds of health services people receive. There are five types of records in the core survey, each in a separate data file. The variables in the Household File (Part 1) include type of living quarters, size of family, number of families in the household, presence of a telephone, number of unrelated individuals, and region. The Person File (Part 2) includes information on sex, age, race, marital status, Hispanic origin, education, veteran status, family income, family size, major activities, health status, activity limits, employment status, and industry and occupation. These variables are found in the Condition, Doctor Visit, and Hospital Episode Files as well. The Person File also supplies data on height, weight, bed days, doctor visits, hospital stays, years at residence, and region variables. The Condition File (Part 3) contains information for each reported health condition, with specifics on injury and accident reports. The Hospital Episode File (Part 4) provides information on medical conditions, hospital episodes, type of service, type of hospital ownership, date of admission and discharge, number of nights in hospital, and operations performed. The Doctor Visit File (Part 5) documents doctor visits within the time period and identifies acute or chronic conditions. A sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth data set have been supplied along with the core files. The Health Insurance Supplement File (Part 6) contains questions about health insurance plans. The type of plan, including private, Medicare, Medicaid, military and other plans, and coverage or reasons for lack of coverage are provided. The Home Care Supplement File (Part 7) includes variables which were used to define the need for personal (individual) home care as a result of a chronic health condition, as well as the use of eyeglasses and contact lenses and hearing aids. The Residential Mobility Supplement File (Part 8) asks questions concerning where the respondent
lives, length of time at an address, number of moves, number of miles
moved, and with whom the respondent lives. The Smoking Supplement File (Part 9) contains variables on smoking status, number of cigarettes smoked, length of time smoked, tar and nicotine levels, and attempts to quit smoking.
description: These data contain multiple weight variables for each part. Users should refer to the User Guide for further information regarding the weights and their derivation. Additionally, users may need to weight the data prior to analysis. Detailed information regarding the use of weights is located within the documentation.
description: A multistage probability sample was used in selecting the housing units.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Household
DS2: Person 
DS3: Condition 
DS4: Hospital Episode
DS5: Doctor Visit 
DS6: Health Insurance Supplement
DS7: Home Care Supplement
DS8: Residential Mobility Supplement
DS9: Smoking Supplement
description: Civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United
States and the District of Columbia from 1,900 geographically defined
Primary Sampling Units (PSU).
description: face-to-face interviewThe data contain amp (&), dash (-), and blank codes. A
new condition recode, Recode 5, has been added to the condition record.
It corresponds to the summary recode in the Ninth Revision
International Classification of Diseases with the addition of residual
categories. Recode 5 will provide a measure of continuity between
condition data on the 1980 (and 1981) Public Use Tapes and data from
1982 and succeeding years when major changes will be made to both the
acute and chronic condition categories.These data files contain weights, which must be used in any analysis.Per agreement with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), ICPSR distributes the data files and text of the technical documentation for this collection as prepared by NCHS.