Accessing and Using NCHS Data on the Web Ann Aikin Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics

Accessing NCHS Data: Pre-Tabulated Tables Available on NCHS Web  Miscellaneous Spreadsheet Files, on FTP server  Aging Trends (Lotus)  Healthy People 2010/2000 (Some Excel, some Lotus)  Data Highlights from NHHCS, NNHS (Excel)  State Health Profiles (Excel) State Health Profiles  SLAITS Frequencies (PDF)  Detailed Vital Statistics Tables  Mortality: Historical Tables from (PDF) Mortality  Natality: some trend data, Preliminary Table (PDF) Natality  Provisional Birth, Death, Marriage, and Divorce Tables by State: , 2 year groups (PDF)  Health, United States  Spreadsheet files in Lotus and Excel:  Updated Tables: Year- round updates (PDF)

Accessing NCHS Data: Pre-Tabulated HTML and PDF Tables Available in FASTATS A to Z, Web-Only Reports, and Data Warehouse Statistical Tables, Charts, and Graphs  Ambulatory Health Care  Behavioral Risk Factors  Diseases  Home Health and Hospice Care  Hospital Data  Infant and Child Health  Infertility  Injury  Nursing Homes  Sex Education  Sexual Activity  Use of Contraceptives  Vital Events Early Release of Selected NHIS EstimatesNHIS Estimates Early Release of Health Insurance Coverage Estimates (Also from NHIS)Health Insurance Coverage Estimates

Accessing NCHS Data Sets: ASCII Data Sets Available to Download from FTP ServerFTP Server  NIS:  LSOA II Wave 2 Survivor File ( )  National Health Care Surveys  NAMCS: ,  NHAMCS:  NHDS:  NNHS:1995, 1997  NSAS:  NHHCS:1996  NEHIS:1994  Data from the NVSS  National Mortality Followback Survey, 1993  NHANES  Files from III  II Mortality  I- Epidemiologic Followup Study, 1992  NHIS  NHIS:1992,  Polio,  Income Data (1994, 1996)  Imputed Annual Family Income,  Condition File  SLAITS: (Health, Child Well- Being and Welfare, National Survey of Early Childhood Health data files)

Accessing NCHS Data: Using the Beyond 20/20 Browser to Access Healthy Women, and Trends in Health and Aging Tables  Healthy Women: State Trends in Health and Mortality  State level data for sex, age, race/ethnicity, and year  4 Mortality Tables (42 Causes and All Causes)  20 Health Behavior and Risk Factor Tables 20 Health Behavior and Risk Factor Tables  Trends in Health and Aging  Over 100 Tables on: Over 100 Tables  Mortality and Life Expectancy  Health Status and Well- being  Functional Status and Disability  Risk Factors  Injuries  Health Care Utilization  Population  Living Arrangements  Health Care Expenditures

Accessing NCHS Data Sets: Using CDC Wonder  Mortality (1999, )  Natality ( )  Linked Birth/Infant Death ( )  Injury and Leading Causes of Death now on WISQARS site on WISQARS site

Accessing NCHS Data: Using WISQARS to Access Injury-Related NCHS Data

Accessing NCHS Data: Using FERRETT to Access Selected NCHS Survey Data

Accessing NCHS Data Over the Web: The Future Updates and Changes to the Healthy Women and Trends in Aging Tables, including new mortality information. The DataWeb provides access to demographic, economic, environmental, health, and other databases housed in different systems in different agencies and organizations. It provides data query and extract capabilities, as well as data analysis and visualization tools. Currently users can create subsets, tabulate, chart, and export data to a variety of formats, working of a CD-ROM. In the future, users will be able to access and use the SETS data sets from the Internet. And “More, More, More…”

Ann Aikin Data Dissemination Branch, NCHS 6525 Belcrest Road, Room 1064 Hyattsville, MD (301) / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics