Health and nutrition examination survey I, 1971-1975
Subtitle: chest x-ray, pulmonary diffusion, and tuberculin test results
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics
Series: Health and nutrition examination survey 1, 1971-1975; ICPSR -- 8507; ICPSR (Series) -- 8507
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Number of pages: 6913
Subjects: Public health; Statistics; Medical care; Utilization; Health surveys
Other titles: Chest x-ray, pulmonary diffusion, and tuberculin test results.
Description: Information for all examined sampled persons in each of these National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES I) was obtained by means of a household interview, a general medical history, a 24-hour dietary intake recall interview, a food frequency interview, a food program questionnaire, a general medical examination, dental, dermatological and ophthalmological examinations, anthropometric measurement, hand-wrist x-rays (of persons ages 1-17 only) and 24 hematological, blood chemistry, and urological laboratory determinations. In addition to this information, some respondents were given more specific tests such as x-rays of the chest and hip and knee joints, audiometry, electrocariography, goniometry, spirometry, pulmonary diffusion and tuberculin tests, and additional laboratory determinations. This data set contains demographic characteristics for 6913 examinees ages 25-74 who had received the detailed examination during NHANES I. Additional information includes their lung and heart size measurements, three expert x-ray readings for lung and heart pathology, pulmonary diffusion measurements, and tuberculin test results.
Notes: Survey data, and clinic data.

The Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys were designed to measure the nutritional status and health of the U.S. population ages 1-74 years and to obtain more detailed information on the health status and medical care needs of adults ages 25-74 years in the civilian non-institutionalized population. Information obtained includes a detailed dietary interview, general medical histories and detailed histories of respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, and arthritis, health care needs and general well-being questionnaire, a general medical examination, dental, dermatological, and ophthalmological examination, anthropometry, vision and speech tests, data on X-rays of the hands, knees, hips, and chest, blood and urinary laboratory tests, electrocardiogram results, spirometry and pulmonary diffusion tests, and tap water samples. There were a total of 32,331 sample persons of which 31,973 were interviewed and 23,808 were examined.

Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1971-1975; Data collected: April 1971-October 1975.

Detailed interview, questionnaire, medical examination, and laboratory tests.

United States.

National Center for Health Statistics.

Logical record length format.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 6913 ; variable count: 280 ; LRECL: 600 ; records per case: 1.

NHANES I is a multistage stratified probability sample of clusters of persons in landbased segments. The subsample of 6913 adults to receive this detailed health examination was chosen systematically from the nutrition sample after a random start. An age-specific sampling rate was used.

Universe: The civilian noninstitutionalized population, ages 1-74, of the United States at the midpoint of the survey (November 1, 1972).

United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. National Center for Health Statistics. VITAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS: DATA FROM THE NATIONAL HEALTH SURVEY (Series 11-213). Washington D.C.: DHEW, 1979.