Health interview survey, 1979
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics
Series: Health interview survey series; ICPSR -- 8049; ICPSR (Series) -- 8049
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Public health; Statistics; Medical care; Health surveys; Medical Statistics
Description: The basic purpose of the Health Interveiw Survey is to obtain information about the amount and distribution of illness, its effects in terms of disability and chronic impairments, and the kind of health services people receive. Household variables in this data collection include type of living quarters, size of family, region, condition list assigned, and type of PSU. Person variables include sex, age, race, marital status, veteran status, education, income, industry and occupation codes, and limits on activity. Also in the Person file are the Home Care Supplement variables which were used to define the need for personal (individual) home care as a result of a chronic health condition, as well as the use of eyeglasses and contact lenses and hearing aids. The Condition, Doctor Visit, and Hospital files contain information on each reported condition, two-week doctor visit, or hospitalization (twelve-month recall), respectively. A Residential Mobility Supplement is also a part of this data collection, and contains variables on the mobility of the respondent - time at an address, number of moves, number of miles moved, reasons for moving, and the number of persons who lived with the respondent.
Notes: The Health Interview Surveys (HIS), a continuous sampling and interviewing of the civilian, non-institutionalized population of the United States, contain information on the social, demographic, and economic aspects of illness, disability, and medical services. Information on the utilization of medical care facilities is also available in the form of data on medical and dental care, hospitalization, preventive care, nursing care, prosthetic appliances, and self-care. The Health Interview Surveys are the primary instrument of a major National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data collection program.

ICPSR data class: Class II, IV.

Data collected: 1979.

Personal interviews.

Survey data.

United States.

OSIRIS and card-image formats, with SPSS control cards for each. The ata contain amp (&), dash (-), and blank codes.

Part number: 1 ; part name: Household ; case count: 41,883 ; variableount: 61 ; logical record length: 135 ; records per case: 2 ; file structre: rectangular.

Part number: 2 ; part name: Person ; case count: 110,530 ; variable cunt: 245 ; logical record length: 607 ; records per case: 10 ; file structure: rectangular.

Part number: 3 ; part name: Condition ; case count: 59,629 ; variable count: 149 ; logical record length: 496 ; records per case: 8 ; file structure: rectangular.

Part number: 4 ; part name: Hospital ; case count: 14,606 ; variable count: 119 ; logical record length: 384 ; records per case: 6 ; file structure: rectangular.

Part number: 5 ; part name: Doctor Visit ; case count: 20,092 ; variable count: 104 ; logical record length: 330 ; records per case: 5 ; file structure: rectangular.

Part number: 6 ; part name: Residential Mobility Supplement ; case count: 25,519 ; variable count: 147 ; logical record length: 494 ; records per case: 1 ; file structure: rectangular.

Multi-stage probability sample.

Universe: Civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States and the District of Columbia from 1,900 geographically defined Primary Sampling Units (PSU)