DataSet

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC

NHIS-D

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which was signed into law in July 1990, is one of the catalysts prompting legal and policy reforms in the area of disability. However, national policy-relevant data on disability needed to understand its many aspects and impacts was limited or nonexistent. In an effort to meet some of these data needs, four Federal offices (Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Health and Human Services; Office of Supplemental Security Income, Social Security Administration (SSA); Office of Disability, SSA; and Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, Health Resources Administration) planned several national surveys about various aspects of disability in the early 1990s. These agencies merged their efforts to develop one survey to be included with the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for 2 consecutive years. Other organizations with an interest in disability also participated. The NHIS-D was conducted in 1994 and 1995. It was designed to collect data that could be used to understand disability, develop public health policy, produce simple prevalence estimates, and provide descriptive baseline statistics on the effects of disabilities.

Disability; Health Services Accessibility; Health Status Indicators; Health Surveys; Chronic Conditions

Updated InfoPac 2/22/10 per DMM CDC

InfoPac

National Health Interview Survey

1997