Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health, 2004

The Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health (JCUSH) is a collaborative project undertaken by the Health Statistics Division of Statistics Canada and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The project called for a one-time telephone survey to be conducted in both countries, controlling for survey design and implementation effects, in order to produce comparable results. <br> The jointly developed survey instrument was designed with questions covering chronic conditions, functional status, determinants of health, and health care utilisation. The questionnaire was administered to approximately 3,500 Canadians and 5,000 Americans living in households. Plans called for a comparable Canada/United States random digit dial (RDD) sample design and for Statistics Canada interviewers to collect the data for both the United States and Canadian respondents. This Microdata File contains data collected from both samples beginning November 4, 2002 and ending March 31, 2003 (collection was extended several weeks for only U.S. data in April and June of 2003 ndash; see section 6.2 for more details) as representative of the ten Canadian provinces, all 50 United States, and the District of Columbia. Data were collected for one adult aged 18 years or older per household from persons living in private occupied dwellings. Excluded from the sampling frame were individuals living in health care institutions, nursing homes, full-time members of the Canadian or United States Armed Forces, and residents of Northern Canada (the three Territories).