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This report presents an overview, a detailed description of the sample design features, and estimation structures for the 2006–2015 National Health interview Survey (Nhi's).

This report provides general guidelines for researchers in analyzing 1999–2010 NHANES publicly released data. information is presented on key issues related to NHANES data, including sample design, demographic variables, and combining survey cycles. Guidance is also provided on data analysis, including the use of appropriate survey weights, calcula ...

This report provides some background on the NHANES program, beginning with the first survey cycle in the 1970s and highlighting significant changes since its inception. The report then describes the broad design specifications for the 2007–2010 survey cycle, including survey objectives, domain and precision specifications, and operational requireme ...

This report provides background for the NHANES program and summarizes the sample design specifications for the 2007–2010 survey cycle.

For random-digit-dial telephone surveys, the increasing difficulty in contacting eligible households and obtaining their cooperation raises concerns about the potential for nonresponse bias. This report presents an analysis of nonresponse bias in the 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health, a module of the State and Local Area integrated Telephon ...

This report will first describe the broad design specifications for the 1999–2006 survey including survey objectives, domain and precision specifications, operational requirements, sample design, and estimations procedures.

This report details the National Center for Health Statistics’ (NCHS) development of the 2006 NCHS Urban–Rural Classification Scheme for Counties and provides some examples of how the scheme can be used to describe differences in health measures by urbanization level.

This report analyzes the patterns of childlessness, and conversely, the first-birth patterns of three birth cohorts of American women. For this report, a cohort refers to women born in the same year. The cohorts compared were women born in 1910, 1935, and 1960—who, consequently, turned 25 during the Great Depression, the Baby Boom, and lastly, the ...

his report presents complete period life tables by Hispanic origin, race for the non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black populations, and sex for the United States based on age-specific death rates in 2006.

This report analyzes education reporting and classification on the death certificate and their effect on estimates of mortality and life expectancy by education level in the United States.

This report describes the sample design of the 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), which uses a new continuous design, and its implications for statistical research.

This report presents the results of an evaluation study of the validity of race and Hispanic origin reporting on death certificates in the United States and its impact on race- and Hispanic origin-specific mortality estimates.

A description of the redesign of the National Health interview Survey, a national probability sample survey of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States.

Numbers of survivors by age, sex, and dentulous or edentulous condition, and average remaining lifetime by age and sex, classified by dentulous and edentulous years. Based on data collected in household interviews in 1971 and 1957-58.

There were three major objectives underlying this research. 1. To obtain estimates of the amount of underreporting of hospital episodes in household interviews in order to provide a rough approximation to underreporting in the Unsensational Health Survey. 2. To analyze the types of hospitalizations which were underreported and to investigate some o ...

This report presents the development, plan, and operation of two follow-back surveys of the 2011–2012 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH): the 2013 National Survey of Children in Nonparental Care (NSCNC) and the 2014 National Survey of the Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD and Tourette Syndrome (NSDATA). Both surveys were modules of the State ...

This methods report provides an overview of the National Survey of Residential Care Facilities (NSRCF) conducted in 2010. NSRCF is a first-ever national probability sample survey that collects data on U.S. residential care providers, their staffs and services, and their residents. included are residential care facilities consisting of assisted livi ...

This methods report provides an overview of the redesigned National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS) conducted in 2007. NHHCS is a national probability sample survey that collects data on U.S. home health and hospice care agencies, their staffs and services, and the people they serve. The redesigned survey included computerized data collection, ...

This report documents the survey design and operating procedures for the 2007 Survey of Adult Transition and Health (SATH). Sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, SATH was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics as a module of ...

This report presents the development, plan, and operation of the National Survey of Adoptive Parents of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NSAP-SN), a module of the State and Local Area integrated Telephone Survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. The survey was designed to pr ...