NCHS: Health Statistics Data 1999-2004

In dtkaplan/DataComputing: Functions and Data for the Data Computing book

Description

These are survey data collected by the US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Each year, approximately 5,000 individuals are interviewed in their homes. The data cover 1999-2004.

Note that the NHANES package provides data from 2009-2012, including more health, life-style, and socio-economic variables.

Usage

data("NCHS")

Format

A data frame with 31126 observations on the following 31 variables.

• sex "male" or "female"

• age in years

• pregnant "yes" or "no"

• ethnicity Mexican American, Other Hispanic, Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic Black, or Other/Multi

• death "alive", "cardiovascular death" or "other death"

• followup months of follow up (for mortality data)

• smoker "yes" or "no"

• diabetic "yes" or "no"

• height height (meters)

• weight weight (kilograms)

• waist waist circumference (meters)

• wci the proposed body shape index

• bmi body mass index

• ptfat percent trunk fat

• tfat mass of trunk fat

• lfat limb fat

• llean limb lean tissue

• lean_bmi lean-tissue only BMI

• fat_bmi fat-only BMI

• bone_bmi bone BMI

• pct_fat percent fat

• bmd bone mineral density

• fmhm_other Framingham risk score

• hdl HDL cholesterol

• chol cholesterol (LDL?)

• bps systolic blood pressure, mmHg

• bpd diastolic blood pressure, mmHg

• income ratio of family income to poverty threshold. 5 is ratio greater than or equal to 5

• pop_weight population weight, for adding up over the US population

• psu primary sampling unit

• stratum sampling stratum

Source

These data were assempled from NCHS/NHANES 1999-2004 sources by Dr. Nir Krakauer at City College of New York.

See Also

The NHANES package available through CRAN.

Examples

names(NCHS)

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