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“The Division of Health Interview Statistics (DHIS) of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has announced the Internet release of the 2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data files and supporting documentation.

The 2012 NHIS contains the core questions, enhanced questions on health care access and utilization, and additional supplemental questions in the Family questionnaire on the subject of food security, Sample Adult questionnaire on the subjects of immunization, complementary and alternative medicine, non-cigarette tobacco use, voice, speech, and language and in the Sample Child questionnaire on the subjects of mental health, mental health services, immunization, complementary and alternative medicine, balance, voice, speech, and language. Along with the 2012 NHIS core data files are the Disability Questions Tests 2012 files which contain person-level data collected via a field test of six disability questions. These supplemental questions appeared on the NHIS, at the end of the Family, Sample Adult, and Sample Child Cores. For more details, please refer to

www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/disabilityquestionstests2012.htm

The Disability Questions Tests 2012 files are released as three separate files. A fourth disability supplement was also fielded in 2012 as part of the Sample Adult Core and is called ‘Functioning and Disability.’

The 2012 NHIS data release consists of eleven questionnaires, six core data files, a paradata file, the three Disability Questions Tests files, a Functioning and Disability file, and two Complementary and Alternative Medicine files. See the Survey Description document for more details. The only 2012 data files not being released at this time are the Imputed Income files which will be released later this year.”

www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/quest_data_related_1997_forward.htm

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