Health interview surveys, 1969-1981
Subtitle: cumulative core file
By: principal investigators, United States Department of Health an Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics
Series: Health interview survey series; ICPSR -- 8629; ICPSR (Series) -- 8629
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Public health; Statistics; Medical care; Utilization; Health surveys; Medical Statistics
Description: The basic purpose of the Health Interview 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. The Health Interview Survey, 1969-1981 is a cumulative core dataset. The following criteria were used for data selection: respondent's age greater than or equal to 30 at the time of the interview, variables of specific substantive interest, information on a given variable being available for at least 8 years, variables selected only once (though parallel entries exist on the input files that were merged), health conditions that were defined as chronic by HIS and which caused or contributed to the respondent's limitation of activity.
Notes: Survey data.

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.

Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging

ICPSR data class: Class IV

Data collected: 1969-1981

personal interviews

United States.

Logical record length format. The data contain amp (&), dash (-), and blank codes. The data are contained on two 6250 bpi magnetic tapes.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 734,741 ; variable count: 161 ; logical record length: 275 ; records per case: 1

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).