National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2003-2004 / United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics .

Format:

• Datafile

Contributor:

• United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
• Human Services. Centers for Disease Control.
• Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics.
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

• ICPSR (Series) ; 25503.
• ICPSR ; 25503

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

2012-02-22.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

. NHANES has a primary role in this endeavor. In the examination, all participants visit the physician who takes their pulse or blood pressure. Dietary interviews and body measurements are included for everyone. All but the very young have a blood sample taken and see the dentist. Depending upon the age of the participant, the rest of the examination includes tests and procedures to assess the various aspects of health listed above. Usually, the older the individual, the more extensive the examination. Some persons who are unable or unwilling to come to the examination center may be given a less extensive examination in their homes. Demographic data file variables are grouped into three broad categories: (1) Status Variables: provide core information on the survey participant. Examples of the core variables include interview status, examination status, and sequence number. (Sequence number is a unique ID assigned to each sample person and is required to match the information on this demographic file to the rest of the NHANES 2003-2004 data). (2) Recoded Demographic Variables: these variables include age (age in months for persons through age 19 years, 11 months; age in years for 1- to 84-year-olds, and a top-coded age group of 85 years of age and older), gender, a race/ethnicity variable, current or highest grade of education completed, (less than high school, high school, and more than high school education), country of birth (United States, Mexico, or other foreign born), Poverty Income Ratio (PIR), income, and a pregnancy status variable (adjudicated from various pregnancy related variables). Some of the groupings were made due to limited sample sizes for the two-year data set. (3) Interview and Examination Sample Weight Variables: sample weights are available for analyzing NHANES 2003-2004 data. For a complete listing of survey contents for all years of the NHANES see the document -- Survey Content -- NHANES 1999-2010. Cf.: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25503.v6

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2015-01-05.

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