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U.S. Health and Nutrition: SAS Survey Procedures and NHANES

Overview The National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is used to evaluate the health and nutrition of the United States (CDC 2005). It is composed of cross-sectional, nationally representative health examination surveys of the U.S. civilian, non-institutionalized population. A complex, stratified, multistage probability cluster sampling design is used in the surveys. Analyzing survey data such as the National Health and Nutrition Survey requires software that accounts for the complex design. One can use SAS survey procedures to analyze data from NHANES, including the SURVEYMEANS, SURVEYFREQ, SURVEYREG, and SURVEYLOGISTIC procedures. This paper discusses the use of these procedures and contrasts them with the procedures available in SAS callable SUDAAN (RTI 2001).

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