DOI: 10.3886/icpsr08914.v4
title: National Nursing Home Survey, 1985
title: Version 4

description: The 1985 National Nursing Home Survey was designed to gather
a variety of data on all types of nursing homes providing nursing care
in the United States. In this collection data are available on nursing
and related care facilities, services provided by the facilities,
residents of the nursing homes, and discharges. Nursing home
care is examined from the perspectives of both the recipients and the
providers of services. Information about patients, both current and
discharged, includes basic demographic characteristics, marital status,
place of residence prior to admission, health status, services
received, and, for discharges, the outcomes of care. A family member of
both current and discharged patients was contacted by telephone to
obtain data on socioeconomic status and prior episodes of health care.
Facility-level data include basic characteristics such as size,
ownership, Medicare/Medicaid certification, occupancy rate, and days of
care provided.
description: Stratified two-stage probability design. The first stage 
 was the selection of facilities, and the second stage was a selection 
 of residents, discharges, and registered nurses from the sample 
 facilities. The sampling procedure yielded a nationally representative 
 sample of 1,220 nursing and related-care homes. The data collection 
 includes three files containing information about sampling within the 
 facility. These sampling files include facility totals of registered 
 nurses, current residents, discharged residents, and the number of each 
 sampled per facility. Interviews were completed with 81 percent of the 
residents' next-of-kin.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Facility Questionnaire
DS2: Nursing Staff Questionnaire
DS3: Current Resident Questionnaire
DS4: Discharged Resident Questionnaire
DS5: Expense Questionnaire
DS6: Nursing Staff Sampling List
DS7: Current Resident Sampling List
DS8: Discharged Resident Sampling List
DS9: Next-of-Kin Questionnaire
description: All types of nursing homes providing some level of nursing
care in the coterminous United States as defined by the 1982 National
Master Facility Inventory (NMFI) or the 1982 Complement Survey of the
NMFI, nursing homes opened for business from 1982 through June 1984 and
identified by the NCHS Agency Reporting System (NCHS, 1968), and
hospital-based nursing homes identified in records of the Health Care
Financing Administration.
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. The approximate age distribution for
5,200 of the 5,238 current residents sampled was: less than 65 years (N
= 554), 65-69 years (N = 266), 70-74 years (N = 433), 75-79 years (N =
709), 80-84 years (N = 993), 85-89 years (N = 1,065), 90-94 years (N =
903), 95 and older years (N = 277). Approximate age at discharge for
5,928 of 6,017 discharged residents sampled was: less than 65 years (N
= 594), 65-69 years (N = 300), 70-74 years (N = 526), 75-79 years (N =
870), 80-84 years (N = 1,203), 85-89 years (N = 1,222), 90-94 years (N
= 826), 95 and older (N = 387). The National Institute on Aging has
funded a follow-up of the 1985 National Nursing Home Survey, extending
the period of observation by 30 months. The follow-up consists of two
waves of Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews [CATI] with surviving
residents, next-of-kin, and facility administrators for approximately
6,000 nursing home residents at 18 months and 4,600 at 30 months. The
follow-up will enable longitudinal analyses on health, services, and
outcomes of case. Those data will be made available by NCHS at a later
date.