DOI: 10.3886/icpsr08914.v3
title: National Nursing Home Survey, 1985
title: Version 3

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: 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: National Nursing Home Survey Series
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.
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: 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.