title: Combining National Health Interview Survey Datasets: issues and approaches.
abstract: This paper identifies issues, special problems, and approaches in preparing estimates when combining National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) datasets. Such datasets can be used to produce estimates jointly based on individual NHIS survey components. This paper illustrates several issues associated with the analysis of multiple related datasets.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, USA.
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Botman
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Jack
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D012107:Research Design; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012984:Software; D014481:United States