National Health Interview Survey, 1972

<p>The purpose of the Health Interview Survey is to obtain information about the amount and distribution of illness, its effects in terms of disability and chronic impairments, and the kinds of health services people receive. There are five types of records in this core survey, each in a separate data file. The Person File (Part 1) includes information on sex, age, race, marital status, Hispanic origin, education, veteran status, family income, family size, major activities, health status, activity limits, employment status, and industry and occupation. These variables are found in the Conditions, Doctor Visits, and Hospital Episodes Files as well. The Person File also supplies data on height, weight, bed days, doctor visits, hospital stays, years at residence, and region variables. The variables in the Household File (Part 2) include type of living quarters, size of family, number of families in the household, presence of a telephone, number of unrelated individuals, and region. The Conditions File (Part 3) contains information for each reported health condition, with specifics on injury and accident reports. The Hospital Episodes File (Part 4) provides information on medical conditions, hospital episodes, type of service, type of hospital ownership, date of admission and discharge, number of nights in hospital, and operations performed. The Doctor Visits File (Part 5) documents doctor visits within the time period and identifies acute or chronic conditions. (Source: downloaded from ICPSR 7/13/10)</p>
<p><strong>Please Note:</strong> This dataset is part of the historical CISER Data Archive Collection and is also available at ICPSR -- <a href="https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08337.v4">https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08337.v4</a>. We highly recommend using the ICPSR version as they made this dataset available in multiple data formats.</p>

本健康访谈调查（Health Interview Survey）的核心目标为获取有关疾病的流行规模与分布特征、疾病所引发的失能与慢性损伤效应，以及民众所接受的各类医疗服务类型的相关信息。本次核心调查共包含五类记录，每类记录均存储于独立的数据文件中。
个人档案文件（Person File，第一部分）收录了性别、年龄、种族、婚姻状况、西班牙裔族裔身份、受教育程度、退伍军人身份、家庭收入、家庭规模、主要活动、健康状况、活动受限情况、就业状态以及行业与职业等信息。上述变量同样可见于疾病状况文件、就诊记录文件与住院事件文件中。此外，个人档案文件还提供了身高、体重、卧床天数、就诊次数、住院时长、居住年限以及地区相关变量的数据。
家庭档案文件（Household File，第二部分）包含的变量涵盖居住单元类型、家庭规模、住户内家庭数量、有无固定电话、非亲属个体数量以及地区变量。
疾病状况文件（Conditions File，第三部分）收录了每一项上报的健康状况相关信息，并包含损伤与事故报告的具体细节。
住院事件文件（Hospital Episodes File，第四部分）提供了医疗状况、住院事件、服务类型、医院所有制类型、入院与出院日期、住院夜间数以及实施的手术操作等相关信息。
就诊记录文件（Doctor Visits File，第五部分）记录了调查时段内的就诊情况，并标注了对应的急性或慢性病症。（数据来源：2010年7月13日从校际政治与社会研究联盟（ICPSR）下载）

请注意：本数据集隶属于历史CISER数据档案库（CISER Data Archive Collection），同时亦可在校际政治与社会研究联盟（ICPSR）获取，其永久链接为https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08337.v4。我们强烈建议使用ICPSR版本的数据集，因其提供了多种数据格式的可用版本。