Concerned about autism, anorexia, or interested in overall health? This site is for the National Center for Health Statistics (materials from the USA Centers for Disease Control). Find out about health stats, run tables, find reports too. The national surveys of behavioral risk factors, which have a lot of information on exercise, smoking, drinking, and eating behaviors can be found here.

Another one of those gigantic sites so set aside some time to browse the links.

[If you want to quickly see what some of the questions look like, pull up my 1997 Project TAL questionnaire, CLICK HERE. Separate questionnaires can be also found on the NCHS site.]

There's more, a lot more at the Centers for Disease Control. There are data on disabilities and on mental health.j

In terms of tabular summaries (which, accessed over time, can be used to create historical record files), there are birth rates, death rates (and cause of death), marriage and divorce rates over time.

To find out about Public Use files, visit the NCHS "data warehouse" link immediately below. You do NOT need a license to analyze Public Use files. They have had information that could lead to identifying any individual either excised or truncated.
 

Kaiser is devoted to "health policy as it happens." This site has a combination of poll results, articles, political news, policy statements--and more. Enter "Health Poll" into Search to bring up a searchable archive of public opinion questions on health issues that allows users to know what Americans think about health issues, as well as what Americans have thought about health issues over time. It also references how people view others who have disabilities or health problems, as well as the best ways (from the general public's view) to take care of one's health.

The site has a very comprehensive list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and I recommend you scroll through it before you investigate the site further.

Lots of material about the Affordable Care Act.

Actual data are NOT available through this Web site but must be obtained through the THE ROPER CENTER. And, except for a trial run, the Roper Center does charge to download many of its data archives. However, keep in mind that the comparative cost is very cheap (usually hundreds of dollars, compared with the millions of dollars it cost to collect the data in these archives). What you pay is largely administrative costs for the organization that maintains the archive. It is quite possible that your department or a dissertation award may be willing to pay a small amount for the archive.

In addition, FSU is a Roper Center member (we pay dues to the Roper Center, which means you don't need to pay.)

What you can do is:

• Identify topics, research general (and specific) population responses to health questions so that you have an idea about what data are available.
• Contruct trend tables over time when a series of repeated questions allow. These tables can be placed into a spreadsheet or statistical program for meta analyses.

Many practitioners and researchers are interested in substance abuse and mental health, because fitness and exercise participation are often inversely related to the first, and irregularly related to the second. Counselors and special educators are obviously interested in such topics as well, as are researchers in early childhood education. By now, it won't surprise you to learn there are many data archives in these areas.

This is a HUGE data archive in Substance Abuse and Mental Health (SAMHSA) is available through the University of Michigan's ICPSR archives. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) facilitates the use of data sets with a primary focus on substance abuse or mental health, primarily via public access to the data on site. SAMHDA acquires and prepares the data for public release and provides technical support to users through email and a toll-free help line. The web site also includes a data analysis system for use with selected data in the archive. Although some data are now available through a different site (see the SAMHSA home page immediately below), this link will take you to several other listed links.
 

The SAMHSA data analysis system allows you to subset variables or cases for analyzing or downloading and produce crosstabulations, descriptive statistics, and frequencies for selected SAMHDA studies. Eventually, all the studies in their holdings will be available for use with the Berkeley Survey Documentation and Analysis system.

Be sure to scroll down on this page to see all the diverse datasets that are available to analyze.
Or you can search for variables through keywords.

Find out more on the SAMHSA Main Page.
There is material on bullying, too.

FSU is a member of the icpsr consortium so you should be able to get to everything on the site!
(You may need to register, however.)

There is material on crime and victimizationin ICPSR too, HERE.

 

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