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What’s
New
Updated August, 2004
Progress in Estimating Active Life Expectancy
This report summarizes the results of a one-day workshop held at NCHS
with scholars in the field of active life expectancy. Links to the
presenters' slides are included.
View/download PDF
146 KB
Future demonstrations and presentations of new tables and features
If you would like to schedule a demonstration of the Data Warehouse on Trends in Health and Aging, please, e-mail us at nha@cdc.gov with your location, name of your organization, and how many people you would like to invite for the presentation. Organizations located outside of the Washington DC-Baltimore area may be asked to compensate NCHS for travel expenses.
In collaboration with the American Society on Aging, we are able to provide continuing education credits (CEU) if you are licensed in a field or profession from a select number of boards and associations such as Care/Case Managers, Certified Heath Education Specialists, Counselors, Mental Health Professionals/Social Workers, Nurses, Nursing Home Administrators and Recreational Therapists. Prior to your registration, please contact ASA for verification of your interest in receiving CEUs at nancyc@asaging.org.
Statistical testing utility
We invite you to use the Beyond 20/20 statistical testing utility on a trial basis. It allows the user a) to test the difference between two values, b) to test the slope of a trend line, and c) to test the difference in the slopes of two trends. Examples of the use of these tests on the Data Warehouse tables could be: "Between 1992-1998, the proportion of older persons who were functionally limited declined from 34.8 in 1992 to 29.4 in 1998. Is this decrease statistically significant?", or "Obesity is a risk factor for a range of diseases. The proportions of obese and overweight persons between 25 and 44 have been increasing since 1991. Is the rate of increase (the slope) the same or different for these two indicators?"
The installation file
for this utility is currently posted at
ftp2.beyond2020.com/outgoing/NCHS/
setup.exe
. You will need to download the utility and run the setup program.
Once you have run "Install" you will see six items in your Tools
menu in the Beyond 20/20 table, including "Help" for each
statistical test. Please send your comments and suggestions about the
Statistical Tool to nha@cdc.gov.
Teaching Modules
With support from the National Institute of Aging and help from the American Society on Aging (ASA) and the University of Michigan Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN), we are developing teaching modules on Trends in Health and Aging. The modules are based on and illustrated with data from the NCHS Data Warehouse on Trends in Health and Aging. The modules are designed for use by teachers at the secondary, undergraduate and graduate levels for courses in aging, sociology, demography, public health, medicine, etc. and for self study by health and aging professionals. The pilot teaching modules ready for the review can be downloaded along with the evaluation forms at American Society on Aging. Your feedback would be a big help in module development.
Annual Data Warehouse on Trends in Health and Aging CD-ROM
The 2003 Annual Data Warehouse Trends in Health and Aging CD-ROM is available for distribution. The CD-ROM contains the Beyond 20/20 tables available on the Data Warehouse on Trends in Health and Aging as of August, 2003. It also contains the tutorial materials on the use of Beyond 20/20 software and the prototype of the future Spanish version of the Data Warehouse. The CD-ROM will be distributed at conferences and presentations and is also available by request at nha@cdc.gov.
New on the Longitudinal Study on Aging
Public-use data files containing all interview data collected as part of the 1994-2000 Second Longitudinal Study of Aging are now available. The LSOA II sample is comprised of 9,447 persons and is nationally representative of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population 70 years of age and over in 1995. Three waves of interview data were collected: the baseline interview (the Second Supplement on Aging or SOA II) was conducted between 1994 and 1996, the first followup (known as Wave 2) was fielded between 1997 and 1998, and Wave 3 was fielded between 1999 and 2000. Both surviving sample persons and proxies for those deceased were eligible for the followup interviews.
Five data files are now available to analysts: the SOA II interview, the Wave 2 Survivor file, the Wave 2 Decedent file, the Wave 3 Survivor File, and the Wave 3 Decedent file. Each file may be obtained through the NCHS website or via CD-Rom. Data users interested in the LSOA II are directed to the LSOA II website or may email queries to
Stay Tuned! Future LSOA II activities include Version 3 of the LSOA II interview data combining all data files onto one user-friendly CD-Rom, complete with SAS programming files and documentation, and administrative data resulting from linkages with the National Death Index, multiple cause-of-death files, and data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Studies.
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