DOI: 10.3886/icpsr09552
title: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II, 1976-1980: Behavioral Questionnaire, Ages 25-74 Years
title: Archival Version

description: This dataset from the National Health and Examination Survey
II (NHANES II) features supplemental variables on personality and
activity-level behaviors that may be related to coronary heart disease.
Additionally, demographic variables and sampling weights are included
in the file. The Demographic Section is divided into four parts:
residence data, sample person data, household data, and head of
household data. The residence data include information on where the
respondent lives, size of place, and total number of persons in the
household and/or family. Variables in the sample person data cover age,
birth date, sex, race, state of birth, marital status, national origin
or ancestry, educational status, and job- and work-related questions.
Household data are concerned with characteristics such as total number
of rooms in the residence, number of bedrooms, type of kitchen
facilities, whether there are running water facilities in the
household, and type of heating and cooling systems. Additional
household variables offer information on transportation, the languages
spoken in the household, and income for the past year. The head of
household data include items such as head's age at interview, birth
date, sex, race, state of birth, marital status, ancestry, education
status, work status, and military service history. The Sample Weight
Section provides appropriate adjustments to be used in making
population estimates for the examined sample ages 25-74 as a whole, for
the portion of the sample who had the medical history interview only,
for those that had specific laboratory tests, for specific age/sex/race
strata, and for poverty/nonpoverty status. The final section, variables
from the Behavior Questionnaire, includes the 19-item Jenkins Activity
Survey (1965 version), which elicits information on the sample
respondent's perceptions of his or her own tendencies to be
hard-driving, impatient, pressured by time, irritated, and competitive.
Ten other questions were asked on amount and frequency of physical
activity.
description: Multistage random sample.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II, 1976-1980: Behavioral Questionnaire, Ages 25-74 Years
description: The civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United
States between the ages of 25 and 74 years.
description: Per agreement with NCHS, ICPSR distributes the data
file(s) and technical documentation in this collection in their
original form as prepared by NCHS. ICPSR has produced the
machine-readable version of the documentation through optical character
recognition (OCR) scanning of the NCHS codebook. The age distribution
for this sample is ages 25-34 (N=2,237), ages 35-44 (N=1,589), ages
45-54 (N=1,453), ages 55-64 (N=2,556), and ages 65-74 (N=2,615). The
racial distribution is white (N=9,096), Black (N=1,163), and other
(N=191). Ethnic backgrounds include Hispanic (N=471), Asian (N=173),
and Native American (N=137). The data contain ampersands (&), dashes
(-), and blank codes.