Abstract #301652

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301652
Activity Number: 16
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 3, 2003 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Health Policy Statistics
Abstract - #301652
Title: Enhancing Comparability of National Health Survey Data from the United States and Canada via a Bi-national Survey
Author(s): Jane F. Gentleman*+
Companies: National Center for Health Statistics
Address: 3217 Geiger Ave., Kensington, MD, 20895-1802,
Keywords: health ; survey ; bi-national ; Canadian health survey ; U.S. health survey
Abstract:

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and Statistics Canada (STC), national statistical agencies in the United States and Canada, respectively, are jointly conducting a one-time, bi-national health survey. Telephone calls were placed to both countries from Canadian telephone centers. One adult from each contacted household was interviewed. The questionnaire could be administered in English, Spanish, or French. The number of respondents was about 5,000 in the U.S. and 3,500 in Canada. The same survey questions were used in both countries. This project arose as part of the agencies' efforts to increase the comparability of questions on ongoing U.S. and Canadian health surveys: the National Health Interview Survey conducted by NCHS, and the National Population Health Survey and Canadian Community Health Survey conducted by STC. The questions on the joint survey were taken verbatim from these surveys. Analysts will compare data from the U.S. portion of the joint survey to data from the Canadian portion, and they will compare joint survey data to data from the same questions on the ongoing surveys. This talk will provide some early analytic results.

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