National Center for Health Statistics

Name of repository

National Center for Health Statistics

Additional name(s)

• NCHS

Repository URL

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/index.htm

Subject(s)

• Public Health, Health Services Research, Social Medicine
• Medicine
• Medicine
• Life Sciences

Description

The mission of NCHS is to provide statistical information that will guide actions and policies to improve the health of the American people. As the Nation's principal health statistics agency, NCHS is responsible for collecting accurate, relevant, and timely data. NCHS' mission, and those of its counterparts in the Federal statistics system, focuses on the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information that is of use to a broad range of us.

Contact

• https://wwwn.cdc.gov/dcs/contactus/form

Content type(s)

• Standard office documents
• Scientific and statistical data formats
• Structured graphics

Keyword(s)

• Longitudinal Studies of Aging (LSOA)
• National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)
• National Death Index
• National Health Interview Survey
• National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
• National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS)
• National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS)
• National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS)
• National Immunization Survey (NIS)
• National Nursing Assistant Survey (NNAS)
• National Nursing Home Survey (NNHS)
• National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery (NSAS)
• National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
• SPACE Program
• State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS)
• biomedicine
• disability
• diseases
• family life
• health care and insurance
• health policy
• immune
• infectious
• mortality

Persistent identifier(s) of the repository

• RRID:SCR_001078
• RRID:nlx_151844

Repository type(s)

• disciplinary

Mission statement for designated community

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/policy/data_release.htm

Research data repository language(s)

• English

Data and/or service provider

• service provider