1996 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Imputed Family Resources Public Use Data File Income and Assets (Part D) WARNING - DATA USE RESTRICTIONS! Read Carefully before Using The Public Health Service Act (Section 308 (d)) provides that the data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), may be used only for the purpose of health statistical reporting and analysis. Any effort to determine the identity of any reported case is prohibited by this law. NCHS does all it can to assure that the identity of data subjects cannot be disclosed. All direct identifiers, as well as any characteristics that might lead to identification, are omitted from the data set. Any intentional identification or disclosure of a person or establishment violates the assurances of confidentiality given to the providers of the information. Therefore, users will: 1. Use the data in this data set for statistical reporting and analysis only. 2. Make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently and advise the Director, NCHS, of any such discovery. 3. Not link this data set with individually identifiable data from other NCHS or non-NCHS data sets. By using these data, you signify your agreement to comply with the above-stated statutorily based requirements. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Introduction This file contains edited and imputed data for the Income and Assets portions (part D) of the 1996 National Health Interview Survey, Family Resources question- naire (NHIS-FR). The Family Resources (FR) data file consists of data from the income and assets supplement which collected information on employment, income from employment and businesses, other income sources including retirement and social security, and asset holdings including cars, houses, businesses, and investment properties. Additional information on the receipt of income from public programs including AFDC, SSI, and Food stamps is also included. The 1996 FR differs from other NHIS data in that it includes imputed or "allocated" data (using a hot deck method). Data that have been allocated are identified in flag fields at the end of the file. Description of several important aspects of the file are found in the file documentation. Data users should use great care in reading all preliminary notes and information in the file documentation. Overview of the File Structure The 1996 NHIS-FR public use data file contains 63,402 records with a record length of 655. Each record contains data for one person. The contents of the file are described in detail in the file documentation which includes unweighted frequencies for each variable. In general, the 1996 NHIS-FR file is organized in the following manner: a. The NHIS person record from the core questionnaire (locations 1-189, 237-341); b. The weight fields (locations 190-236); c. Fields needed for calculating variances (locations 342-358); d. Work experience and current earnings (locations 400-475); e. Income from other sources (locations 476-553) including income from public programs including welfare, SSI, SSDI, and the cash value of food stamps; f. Asset ownership and valuation (locations 554-570); g. Total edited income (locations 581-586 and 587-592); h. Flag fields (locations 593-654). The 1996 NHIS-FR public use data file has been converted into a self-extracting compressed format. To load and expand a compressed file into an ASCII file, perform the following steps: Download the compressed file onto your hard drive into an appropriate subdirectory. For example: Copy the data file 96INCPUB.EXE into a subdirectory called NHIS1996. To extract 96INCPUB.EXE into the ASCII file 96INCPUB.ASC, go to the subdirectory NHIS1996 and do the following: - From DOS - type 96INCPUB without the EXE extension, and press key. - From Windows - Double-click on 96INCPUB.EXE. The ASCII file 96INCPUB.ASC will be generated which can then be used for processing by PC statistical software packages which utilize ASCII formatted input, or transferred to another computer for processing. *********** 1996 NHIS Imputed Family Resources Public Use Data File ************ Filename Description File Format Size 96INCPUB.EXE Data file Executable 4.7 MB 96INCDOC.PDF Documentation Acrobat 123 KB The 1996 NHIS-FR dataset is located at: ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Datasets/NHIS/1996_Income/data/ The file documentation for the 1996 NHIS-FR data is located at: ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Datasets/NHIS/1996_Income/doc/ The 1996 NHIS-FR survey instrument containing the Income and Assets questions (Part D) can be found on pages 15-24 of the document at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/10_200_4.pdf. The file documentation and survey questionnaire are in .pdf format. These two documents can be viewed only with Adobe Acrobat 4.0. 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