1999 NHIS - Large MSA Identification December 12, 2002 As Updated: January 6, 2004 This file describes MSA99.TXT, an ASCII file that contains one record for every household in the 1999 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) which is in a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) which has at least 1,000,000 population. Where applicable, an identity of a Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA) has also been provided. Records are included for NHIS responding and non-responding households. Therefore, some households are in MSA99.txt that have a corresponding household in the 1999 NHIS Household file but have no corresponding records in any other 1999 NHIS files. MSA99.TXT may be linked to any 1999 NHIS data file by the household number field (HHX). Here are the file characteristics: File Name: MSA99.TXT # Records: 24,675 *** Sort Order: HHX ***On August 1, 2003 file MSA99.TXT was updated to include 769 households in the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island CMSA and the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA CMSA. Record Layout: Columns Field Description ------- ------------------ 1-6 HHX (household number) 7 Blank 8-53 MSA label 54 Blank 55-57 NHIS MSA Value (LRG_MSA) 58 Blank 59-61 NHIS CMSA Value ----------------------------------------------------------------- Large Metropolitan Areas: METROPOLITAN AREA NHIS Codes BASEMSA COMBMSA =LRG_MSA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Atlanta, GA MSA 020 Austin-San Marcos, TX MSA 030 Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT CMSA 060 Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY MSA 070 Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC MSA 080 Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI CMSA 090 Cincinnati-Hamilton, OH-KY-IN CMSA 100 Cleveland-Akron, OH CMSA 110 Columbus, OH MSA 120 - Dallas, TX PMSA 132 Fort Worth-Arlington, TX PMSA 131 Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO CMSA 150 Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI CMSA 160 Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC MSA 170 Hartford, CT MSA 180 Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX CMSA 200 Indianapolis, IN MSA 210 Jacksonville, FL MSA 220 Kansas City, MO-KS MSA 230 - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA PMSA 243 Orange County, CA PMSA 242 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA PMSA 241 Louisville, KY-IN MSA 250 Memphis, TN-AR-MS MSA 260 - Fort Lauderdale, FL PMSA 271 Miami, FL PMSA 272 Milwaukee-Racine, WI CMSA 280 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI MSA 290 Nashville, TN MSA 300 New Orleans, LA MSA 310 *New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island 001 Bergen-Passaic, NJ PMSA 321 001 Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ PMSA 326 001 Monmouth-Ocean, NJ PMSA 327 001 Nassau-Suffolk, NY PMSA 328 001 New York, NY PMSA 330 001 Newark, NJ PMSA 331 001 Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA-NC MSA 340 Oklahoma City, OK MSA 350 Orlando, FL MSA 360 - Philadelphia, PA-NJ PMSA 371 Phoenix-Mesa, AZ MSA 380 Pittsburgh, PA PMSA 390 Portland-Salem, OR-WA CMSA 400 Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA MSA 410 Rochester, NY MSA 430 Sacramento-Yolo, CA CMSA 440 St. Louis, MO-IL MSA 500 Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT MSA 450 San Antonio, TX MSA 460 San Diego, CA MSA 470 **San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA CMSA 002 Oakland, CA PMSA 483 002 San Francisco, CA PMSA 481 002 San Jose, CA PMSA 486 002 Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA CMSA 490 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA 510 - Baltimore, MD PMSA 040 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV PMSA 520 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL MSA 530 * NEW YORK COMBMSA = LRG_MSA 321-335 ** SAN FRANCISCO COMBMSA = LRG_MSA 481-486 ----------------------------------------------------------------- For information about the 1999 NHIS, see the '1999 NHIS' category on the NHIS home page: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm As of January 6, 2004, this documentation file is stored in: ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/MSA/NHIS/1999/msa99doc.txt ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you have questions or comments on any aspect of the NHIS, please contact us: E-mail: nhislist@cdc.gov Call : 301-458-4901 FAX : 301-458-4035 Mail : CDC:NCHS:DHIS 3311 Toledo RD Room 2217 Hyattsville MD 20782 -----------------------------------------------------------------