1.2. Thinking about your physical health, which includes physical illness and injury, for about how many days during the past 30 days did poor physical health keep you from doing your usual activities, such as self-care, work, or recreation?
1.3. Now thinking about your mental health, which includes stress, depression, and problems with emotions, for about how many days during the past 30 days did poor mental health keep you from doing your usual activities, such as self-care,work, or recre
2.7. In the last 12 months, when you needed care for an illness or injury and called your personal doctor's office for an appointment, how quickly did they usually see you?
2.9. Has there been a time in the past 12 months when you have not followed a doctor's advice or treatment plan?
2.10. What advice did you not follow? INTERVIEWER NOTE: ACCEPT ONLY ONE RESPONSE DO NOT READ RESPONSES
2_12. How often does your regular doctor or health care professional Listen carefully to you?
2_13. How often does your regular doctor or health care professional Explain things in a way you can understand?
2_14. How often does your regular doctor or health care professional Spend enough time with you?
2.15. During your last visit to a doctor, did you get advice or counseling on your weight, nutrition or exercise?
2.16. Within the past 12 months when seeking health care, do you feel your experiences were worse than, the same as, or better than the experiences of people of other races?
2.17. In the last 12 months, how many times have you used a hospital emergency room?
4.1. Thinking about nutrition...how many total servings of fruit and/or vegetables did you eat yesterday? A serving would equal one medium apple, a handful of broccoli, or a cup of carrots.
During the past 12 months, how many times did you visit an emergency room or urgent care center because of asthma?
Are you seriously thinking of quitting smoking in the next 30 days?
Are you seriously thinking of quitting smoking in the next 6 months?
During the past year, did you use any of the following aids to help you quit? A nicotine patch?
During the past year, did you use any of the following aids to help you quit? Nicotine gum?
During the past year, did you use any of the following aids to help you quit? Nicotene lozenge, nasal spray or inhaler?
11.13.What is the highest grade or year of school you completed?
In the last 30 days, have you been concerned about having enough food for you or your family?
11.19.In the last 12 months, have you spent at least one night staying in a homeless shelter, homeless hotel, outside, in a vehicle or a public place (such as a subway station or bus terminal)?
11.28.Do you have regular access to an e-mail account at home or work?
14.2. At any time in the last 90 days have you seen any mice or rats, or signs of mice or rats in your home or building? INTERVIEWER: READ IF NECESSARY: Signs of mice or rats include droppings, burrows, and chewed...
Presence of children in household
Have you ever been tested for HIV? Do not count tests as part of a blood donation.
18.3. Did that pregnancy result in a live birth?
18.4. Did that pregnancy result in a miscarriage or stillbirth?
19.1. Have you ever used cocaine, including crack or freebase, heroin, PCP, angel dust, or any other street drugs? Do not include marijuana.
Have you ever spent any time in a correctional facility, jail, prison or detention center as an adult, that is, 18 years old or older?
Unique identifier across all years of CHS
Sex of the person being interviewed
Age groups (in years)
Race/ethnicity of the person being interviewed
Question was asked v.differently in survey 4 and 5 (question did not differ among surveys 1, 2, 3)
Time since you last smoked cigarettes regularly?
# cigs smoked/day among every day and some day smokers, continuous values (imputed for missing values)
# cigs smoked/day among every day and some day smokers, categorical values (imputed for missing values)
Heavy smoker (11+ cigarettes per day) among every day and some day smokers (imputed for missing values)
# cigs smoked/day among every day smokers only, categorical values (imputed for missing values). Use for trend analysis
Stopped smoking for one day/24 hours or longer during past 12 months
Time before first cigarette in the morning
Smoke every day vs some days (y/n)
Second-hand smoke exposure at work, 2004
Second-hand smoke exposure at home, CHS 2004
Which statement best describes the rules about smoking inside your home?
Where did you get the last cigarette you smoked?
Where did you get that last cigarette? (among current smokers). Use for trend analysis
NYC tax avoidance status (current smokers)
Was the last cigarette you smoked from a carton, pack, single, bummed, or did you roll your own
Smoking status
Those who quit in the past year among former regular smokers
Successful quit (quit for > 3 months) among those who quit last year
During the past year did you use prescription pills like Zyban or Bupropion to block the craving of smoking
During the past year did you use individual/telephone/group counseling to help you quit smoking
Age when first started smoking regularly (incl current smokers only)
Cost of 20 cigarettes (pack)
Marital Status
Sexual identity
Employment status
Employment status (3 categories)
Educational status
Age groups 21 years or older
Age 25yrs and up for education
Age 50yrs and up for colon screening
Age groups 40 years or older
Age group 18 - 64 only
Household annual income from all sources by poverty level
Household poverty based on annual income. Use ONLY to compare 2002 or 2003 to later years
Household annual income from all sources <200% FPL
Household annual income from all sources by 3 LEVEL poverty status
Neighborhood poverty in tertiles: percent of UHF <200 percent FPL, Census 2000
Includes follow-up questions from persons who did not want to give their exact weight
Nativity - usborn or foreign born
What type of health care insurance do you use to pay for your doctor or hospital bills? Isit through
Inusrance status coded from the gateway question
Insured vs uninsured coded from ins status variable to be consistent with chs2002 and chs2003 - no gateway question in 2002-2003
Type of health insurance coverage (5 categories)
Physical exam
Had a time without coverage in the past 12 months
Which one of the following reasons, best describes why you did not follow your doctor's advice
Where do you go if you are sick/need advice on your health
Do you have one person you think of as your personal doctor or health care provider?
Self-reported general health status
Number of days health not good (CHS02)/poor health kept you from doing usual activities such as self-care, work, or recreation (CHS03, CHS04)--- the question wordings were different from chs2002,03
Thinking of mental health incl stress, depression, problems with emotions, for about how many days during past 30 days did your poor mental health keep you from doing usual activities -- selfcare, work, or recreation?-
Total number of servings of fruit and/or veg you ate yesterday
Ever been told you have diabetes?
Age at diabetes diagnosis, updated 7-2009
Ever taken a class/course on how to manage your diabete by yourself
Those who had at least one alcoholic drink in the past 30 days
Average number of drinks on the drinking days (updated 6-2008)
Number of days consumed at least 1 alcohol drink in the last 30 days (standardized to month)
Heavy drinking - All
One or more episodes of Binge drinking (>= 5 drinks) in the past 30 days
Had sex in the past 12 months
Women who report having sex with women/denominator sexually active women only (updated fall 2007)
wsw with women only (bisexuals not in the numerator)/ denominator is sexually active women only (bisexuals in denominator) (updated 9-2008)
Men who report having sex with men/denominator is sexually active men only (updated fall 2007)
msm with men only (bisexuals not in the numerator)/ denominator is sexually active men only (bisexuals in denominator) (updated 6-2008)
Number of sex partners (of either gender)
Among all sexually active in the past 12 months if a condom was used at last sex
Condom used the last time you had sex? (use for trend analysis, 18-64 yr only, excludes msm exclusive, wsw exclusive)
The last time you had sex, did you intend to get pregnant/get your partner pregnant
Contraceptive method used at last sex -- question wording changed during data collection for CHS04
Have you been pregnant in the past 5 years?
Thinking back to your last pregnancy, whether it resulted in a live birth or not, were you trying to get pregnant?
Outcome of most recent pregnancy
Have you ever been tested for HIV? (among 18-64 yrs only)
During the past 30 days other than your regular job, did you participate in any physical activities or exercises?
Past 30 days, walked/biked >10 blocks as part of routine (same in 03, response options differ in 07)
Ever told by doctor, nurse or other health professional that you had asthma
Do you currently have asthma?
Number of ED visits in the past 12 months due to asthma
In last 30 days, number of days asthma symptoms made it difficult to stay asleep (among current asthma only)
Flushot in the past 12 months
Ever had a pneumonia shot
Among women >= 40yrs - Have you ever had a Mammogram? (uses age40new)
Among women 40+ - how long ago was the Mammogram?(uses age40new)
Among women 40+ - mammogram in past 1 yr? (uses age40new)
Among women 40+ - mammogram in past 2 yr? (uses age40new)
Among all women with or without hysterectomy - Ever had a pap smear
Among all women with or without hysterectomy - had pap smear in past 3 yrs
Among all women who did not have hysterectomy - how long ago was the pap smear
Ever had colonoscopy 2004, question asked differently in 2002 and 2003
Colonoscopy past 10 yr, among 50+, denominator all respondents to Q13.6 or Q.13.7
In past 12 months afraid for safety due to anger/threat of an intimate partner
In past 12 months sustained injury/bruises/cuts/black eye/broken bones as result of intimate partner's behavior (of those afraid)
same as injury but, the denominator is all
Have you ever used a needle to take street drugs, everyone included in the denominator
Have you used crystalmeth in the past 12 months?
At any time in the last 90 days have you seen any mice or rats or signs of mice or rats on the street where you live or in your home or building?
At any time in the last 90 days have you seen any mice/rats or signs of mice/rats on street where you live?
Neighborhood Poverty Group, based on percent of ZIP Code population <100%FPL, per Census 2000
Household size, adult plus children under 18 years (Top coded)