A signed agreement is required with purchase of this product. The datafile is on one CD-ROM disc.
Documentation is on the disc.
The data files may be accessed directly from the CD-ROM with any programming language or data analysis package. Y2K - not relevant. These cases should be excluded from the NHIS survey data files prior to analysis. Inclusion is tantamount to making the assumption they live forever and could introduce a bias into the analysis. A sample SAS computer program which links the 1987 NHIS person data file with the 1987 multiple cause of death data file, excludes the ineligible cases, and produces a tabulation of the percent of respondents dying between the date of interview and the end of 1995.