The National Center for Health Statistics is pleased to announce a new release of data in the Data Warehouse on Trends in Health and Aging

The new release contains Home Health Care data by the type of the service from The National Home and Hospice Care Survey, Emergency Room data by reason for visit (illness or injury), and updated data from The Bureau of The Census (Living Arrangements), and data on self-assessed health status from National Health Interview Survey and Behavior Risk Factors Surveillance System. Data on functional limitations of older adults from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey are being developed and will be released soon. Most of the new and updated tables contain statistical confidence intervals, standard errors and relative standard errors for the estimates.

The next presentation of the Warehouse will be at the 2002 NCOA-ASA Joint Conference, in Denver, Colorado. If you haven't used the Warehouse before, it is a user-friendly Web-based data archive developed by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) with support from the National Institute on Aging. The Warehouse is specifically designed to show trends in health-related behaviors, health status, health care utilization, and health care costs of the older population.

The warehouse contains information from a variety of National and State level data systems, the majority maintained by NCHS. The Warehouse is a dynamic system; series based on regular collection systems are updated as new figures become available. Moreover, the number of topics grows as important new data are made available.

New release of data in the Data Warehouse on Trends in Health and Aging