NCHS collects and disseminates data on health, nutrition and vital events, including food frequency and nutrient intake, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, the use of health care, and birth, marriage, divorce, aging and death. With the National Health Examination Surveys, these data may be used to track national trends in health and nutrition over the last 30 years, including changes in the prevalence of high cholesterol, obesity and hypertension. Other data sets focus on births, deaths, marriage, divorce, family growth, hospital discharges, nursing homes, long-term care, ambulatory medical care and medical care utilization expenditures, among others. His office, Statistical Consulting, provides support in using the data for statistical analysis. Expertise includes survey research, complex sampling and implementing statistical analysis.
Consultants also can provide access to software designed to handle survey data with complex designs.
She can provide information about available data and can order additional NCHS data. The Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals, for example, describes diet and food consumption behavior and assesses nutritional content of diets.