NCHS - HUD Data Linkage

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, in collaboration with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), is pleased to announce the release of the second NCHS-HUD linked data product. The data are based on the linkage of the 1999-2016 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and 1999-2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) with HUD Administrative records through 2016 for HUD’s largest housing assistance programs: Multifamily, Public Housing, and Housing Choice Vouchers. These files will enable researchers to examine relationships between housing, health risk behaviors, and health.

To protect the confidentiality of survey respondents, the NCHS-HUD linked files are restricted-use files. Interested researchers can submit a proposal to use the data through the NCHS Research Data Center (http://www.cdc.gov/rdc/). Please visit the NCHS-HUD data linkage website: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/data_linkage/hud.htm to find useful information about the linked data files, such as:

• a data dictionary for the linked data product containing details of the data elements;
• analytic guidelines describing the structure of the files and providing important analytic considerations; and
• public-use feasibility files for determining the available sample size.

Linking National Health Surveys and HUD Administrative Data, An Interview with Jon Sperling & Veronica Helms:

In this column on PD&R Edge, Jon Sperling, HUD Senior Policy Analyst, Geographic Information and Analysis, and Veronica Helms, ‎HUD Social Science Analyst, describe how HUD and other federal agencies are collaborating to match data that will provide a better understanding of HUD’s assisted population. Learn more