DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04651.v1
title: National Nursing Home Survey, 2004
title: Version 1

description: The National Nursing Home Survey (NNHS) is a survey of
nursing homes and related care facilities in the United States. During
2004, information regarding facility and financial characteristics was
gathered from 1,174 facilities, along with current resident
information for 13,507 residents, with additional information from
3,017 Nursing Assistants. The 2004 NNHS, conducted between August and
December of 2004, was reintroduced into the field after a five-year
break, during which time the survey was redesigned and expanded to
collect many new data items using the National Nursing Assistant
Survey (NNAS), which was sponsored by the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (APSE) and is the first national
study of nursing assistants working in nursing facilities in the
United States. Facilities (DS 1) information was gathered through
personal interviews with facility administrators and provided
information on topics such as certification, availability of beds, and
kinds of services provided, including dental, hospice, and nutrition.
Current Residents (DS 2) information includes questions regarding age,
race, marital status, level of care, and use of aids such as walkers,
hearing aids, and crutches. Nursing Assistants (Part 3) information
looked at the important role of nursing assistants in providing
long-term care services for the growing population of the elderly and
chronically ill. The NNAS gathered information regarding recruitment,
education, training and licensure, job history, and family life, along
with client relations, job satisfaction, and workplace environment.
description: A sample of 1,500 nursing homes was selected. Of these,
 283 refused to participate and 43 were considered out of scope for one
 or more of the following reasons: the nursing home had gone out of
 business, it failed to meet the definition used in this survey, or it
 was a duplicate of another facility in the sample. A total of 1,174
 nursing homes participated at the first stage by providing facility
 information, resulting in a first stage response rate of 81 percent. A
 total of 14,017 residents were sampled from the responding
 facilities. Of these, 8 were out of scope and 502 refused, yielding a
 second stage response rate of 96 percent, and an overall response rate
for the resident component of the NNHS of 78 percent.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Facilities
DS2: Current Residents
DS3: Nursing Assistants
description: For the 2004 survey, 1,500 nursing home facilities were
selected from a sampling frame of United States nursing homes. The
sampling frame was drawn from two sources: (1) The Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services' Provider of Services file of United
States nursing homes, and (2) state licensing lists compiled by a
private organization. These two files contained approximately 17,000
nursing homes. The combined files were matched and unduplicated,
resulting in a sampling frame of 16,628 nursing homes.
description: personal interview; self-enumerated questionnairePer agreement with NCHS, ICPSR distributes the data
files and text of the technical documentation for this collection as
prepared by NCHS.