{"title":"National Health Interview Survey: research for the 1995-2004 redesign.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This report presents a major portion of the research carried out for the 1995-2004 redesign of the National Health Interview Survey. The primary focus of the 1995-2004 NHIS redesign research was to explore sample design options to improve the reliability of NHIS statistics for racial, ethnic, economic, and geographic domains. Another objective was to assess the integration of the sample designs of the NCHS surveys of health care providers and NHIS.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A number of research tasks were carried out by Westat, Inc., to explore the feasibility and cost of various sample design options for the 1995-2004 National Health Interview Survey redesign. This report provides a detailed description of the research that was carried out.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The research results presented in this report were the primary basis for assessing the technical soundness and costs for a number of design alternatives. The first option, called the alpha option, was developed under the assumption of a 50-percent data collection budget increase. The second option, called the beta option, was developed under the assumption of no change in the data collection budget. The beta option was the design implemented in 1995. Other important research items described in this report include oversampling methods for minority populations and dual-frame sampling methods. The research results in this report also led to additional research, primarily in the area of survey integration. A more detailed description of the 1995-2004 NHIS design will appear in a forthcoming NCHS Series 2 report titled Design and Estimation for the 1995-2004 National Health Interview Survey.</p>","PeriodicalId":23577,"journal":{"name":"Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research","volume":" 126","pages":"1-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21358801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1988 National Maternal and Infant Health Survey: methods and response characteristics.","authors":"M Sanderson, J F Gonzalez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The 1988 National Maternal and Infant Health Survey (NMIHS) was conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics to study factors related to poor pregnancy outcome, such as adequacy of prenatal care; inadequate and excessive weight gain during pregnancy; maternal smoking, drinking, and drug use; and pregnancy and delivery complications.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The NMIHS is a nationally representative sample of 11,000 women who had live births, 4,000 who had late fetal deaths, and 6,000 who had infant deaths in 1988. Questionnaires were mailed to mothers based on information from certificates of live birth, reports of fetal death, and certificates of infant death. Information supplied by the mother, prenatal care providers, and hospitals of delivery was linked with the vital records to expand knowledge of maternal and infant health in the United States.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The response rates in all three components of the NMIHS differed according to the mothers' characteristics. Mothers were more likely to respond if they were 20-39 years of age, were white, were married, had fewer than four children, entered prenatal care early, had more prenatal visits, had more years of education, or resided in the Midwest Region. The percent of respondents was lower for teenage mothers, mothers of races other than white, and mothers with four or more children, little prenatal care, or fewer years of education. Mothers whose infants weighed less than 2,500 grams were less likely to respond in the live-birth and infant-death components than mothers whose infants weighed 2,500 grams or more.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The NMIHS will provide an invaluable tool for researchers and practitioners seeking solutions to perinatal and obstetric problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":23577,"journal":{"name":"Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research","volume":" 125","pages":"1-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20542800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F J Potter, V G Iannacchione, W D Mosher, R E Mason, J D Kavee
{"title":"Sample design, sampling weights, imputation, and variance estimation in the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth.","authors":"F J Potter, V G Iannacchione, W D Mosher, R E Mason, J D Kavee","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Cycle 5 of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) was conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) in 1995. The NSFG collects data on pregnancy, childbearing, and women's health from a national sample of women 15-44 years of age. This report describes how the sample was designed, shows response rates for various subgroups of women, describes how the sampling weights were computed to make national estimates possible, shows how missing data were imputed for a limited set of key variables, and describes the proper ways to estimate sampling errors from the NSFG. The report includes both nontechnical summaries for readers who need only general information and more technical detail for readers who need an in-depth understanding of these topics.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The 1995 NSFG was based on a national probability sample of women 15-44 years of age in the United States and was drawn from 14,000 households interviewed in the 1993 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Of the 13,795 women eligible for the NSFG, 10,847 (79 percent) gave complete interviews.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This report recommends using weighted data for analysis and a software package that will estimate sampling errors from complex samples (for example, SUDAAN or comparable software). The rate of missing data in the 1995 NSFG was very low. However, missing data were imputed for 315 key variables, called \"recodes.\" Of the 315 recodes defined for Cycle 5, 271 variables had missing data on less than 1 percent of the cases; only 44 had 1 percent or more with missing data. These missing values were imputed for all of these 315 variables. The imputation procedures are described in this report.</p>","PeriodicalId":23577,"journal":{"name":"Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research","volume":" 124","pages":"1-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20485698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of two surveys of hospitalization: the National Hospital Discharge Survey and the NHANES I Epidemiologic Followup Study.","authors":"L B Russell, E Milan, R Jagannathan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This report compares hospitalization data from the NHANES I Epidemiologic Followup Study (NHEFS) with data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), the benchmark for hospitalization in the United States, for men and women 35 years and older for the period 1971-87. The comparison is intended to help analysts evaluate the validity and generality of analyses based on the NHEFS.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Hospital stays per 1,000 population and average lengths of stay are compared year by year for each age-sex group and for the entire period. Regression analyses test for differences between the two surveys by age and sex, and for differences in trends over time and the effect of the Medicare program's prospective hospital payment system.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Hospital stays per 1,000 population were lower in NHEFS than in NHDS in all age-sex groups at the beginning of the period, but the differences had almost disappeared by 1987. Lengths of stay, although somewhat longer in NHEFS, matched NHDS more closely. Differentials by age and sex were similar in the two surveys for both hospital stays per 1,000 population and length of hospital stay. With its extensive information on baseline risk factors, the NHEFS offers a unique opportunity to study determinants of hospitalization in a representative sample of U.S. adults. The evaluation presented here suggests two points for researchers who want to use the NHEFS. First, including age as a control should largely correct for differences in age distribution between NHEFS and NHDS. Second, a time trend should also be included to capture the effects of several factors that caused the count of stays to be low in the early years of NHEFS followup.</p>","PeriodicalId":23577,"journal":{"name":"Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research","volume":" 123","pages":"i-iii, 1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20272579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of 2-week doctor visit reporting in the national health interview survey.","authors":"W S Edwards, D M Winn, J G Collins","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This report includes a review of previous research on the reporting of ambulatory medical visits in household surveys, describes the methods used in the Health Interview Evaluation Survey, and presents results relating to the reporting of 2-week doctor visits.</p>","PeriodicalId":23577,"journal":{"name":"Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research","volume":" 122","pages":"1-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19729465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statistical issues in analyzing the NHANES I Epidemiologic Followup Study. Series 2: Data evaluation and methods research.","authors":"D D Ingram, D M Makuc","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This report presents alternative strategies for analysis of data from the NHANES I Epidemiologic Followup Study (NHEFS) using Cox proportional hazards and person-time logistic regression models. Analytic issues related to the complex survey design of the NHANES I and the variable length of followup of NHEFS participants are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":23577,"journal":{"name":"Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research","volume":" 121","pages":"1-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18970796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of National Health Interview Survey diagnostic reporting.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This report presents the results of a study of the reporting of chronic conditions in the National Health Interview Survey. The analysis compares the reporting of certain chronic conditions by household interview respondents against the presence of these conditions in medical records, examining the differences in agreement across conditions and across respondent characteristics.</p>","PeriodicalId":23577,"journal":{"name":"Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research","volume":" 120","pages":"1-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19126629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigation of nonresponse bias: Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.","authors":"M L Rowland, R N Forthofer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This report presents an investigation of potential nonresponse bias in the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES) conducted during the period 1982-84. Data from a household and medical history interview were used to investigate factors related to examination status. The study includes a comparison of data for examinees in HHANES with data from interviewees in the National Health Interview Survey during 1982, 1983, and 1984.</p>","PeriodicalId":23577,"journal":{"name":"Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research","volume":" 119","pages":"1-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19126628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G S Poe, E Powell-Griner, J K McLaughlin, P J Placek, G B Thompson, K Robinson
{"title":"Comparability of the death certificate and the 1986 National Mortality Followback Survey.","authors":"G S Poe, E Powell-Griner, J K McLaughlin, P J Placek, G B Thompson, K Robinson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23577,"journal":{"name":"Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research","volume":" 118","pages":"1-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19290776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle IV, evaluation of linked design.","authors":"J Waksberg, S Sperry, D Judkins, V Smith","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research was undertaken to quantify the effects of costs of alternative methods for selecting sample women for the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). This report presents estimates of the effects of alternative design options, obtained by statistical modeling techniques, for linking the NSFG with the NHIS; the cost data and the statistical precision of estimates were based on data from the NSFG, Cycle IV. The estimated survey costs and projected response rates for alternative linked design options and for the unlinked design are compared for fixed precision. The findings confirm that substantial gains in the NSFG design efficiency were obtained by linking the NSFG sample design to that of the NHIS.</p>","PeriodicalId":23577,"journal":{"name":"Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research","volume":" 117","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19203781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}