Issues in Developing Multidimensional Indices of State-level Health Inequalities: National Health Interview Survey, 2013–2015

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  Public health report presenting methodological challenges in creating and estimating state-specific health inequalities indices using National Health Interview Survey data. Findings reveal that different index choices can significantly affect state rankings and highlight the need for careful selection of measures to reduce uncertainty in rankings. Includes tables.
• Subjects:
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • Data Collection
  • Vital Statistics
• Keywords:
  • demographic and socioeconomic inequalities in health, state health metrics, composite index, health rankings, NHIS, National Health Interview Survey
• Source:
  National Health Interview Survey
• Series:
  NCHS Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  63 pdf pages
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  180
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/56721/cdc_56721_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.79 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7a6b58630b6148dcf621f24bd1e5b74969ce427b3bdd550c4ef8ffb0e1bca2bcaab01d9a69d476c4bee64cbce0f84ef62b7cbb7d19ce4b599a369ebcdb5dc364