survey: Health metrics of Americans.

In jjankowiak/exploreNHANES: Explore and visualize NHANES data

Description

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a recurring assessment of national health metrics. The survey combines interviews with physical examinations and laboratory testing of ~10,000 Americans (2013-14 results).

Usage

data(survey)

Format

A data frame with 10611 rows and 17 variables

Details

The variables are as follows:

• SegID. Respondent ID.

• ExerciseType. Physical activily type.

• MinutesPerDay. Average daily exercise time in minutes.

• Gender. Person's gender.

• Age. Person's age in years (range).

• Ethnicity. Person's ethnicity.

• Education. Person's education level (range).

• NoChild. Number of children aged 5 years or younger in the household.

• NoTeen. Number of children aged 6-17 years or younger in the household.

• NoElder. Number of adults aged 60 years or older in the household.

• Income. Yearly total family income in dollars (range).

• Weight. Person's weight in kg.

• Height. Person's height in cm.

• BMI. Person's body mass index.

• Triglyceride. Person's triglyceride level in mgdL.

• LDLcholesterol. Person's LDL cholesterol level in mgdL.

• Pulse. Person's pulse.

jjankowiak/exploreNHANES documentation built on May 14, 2019, 2:07 p.m.