A random sample of 500 participants age 21 or older from the full NHANES data.

The dataset NHANES (US National Health and Nutrition Examination Study) is part of the CRAN package NHANES (author Randall Purim, rpruim@calvin.edu) and contains 76 variables on 100,000 participants from surveys conducted between 2009 and 2012. The surveys are part of a series conducted by the US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) since the 1960's. See the NHANES package documentation for more information about the surveys.

Usage

nhanes.samp.adult.500

Format

A dataframe with 500 rows and 76 variables

Source

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=NHANES.

Details

The dataset NHANES is a weighted sample from the full survey dataset constructed so that it may be treated as a random sample of the US population. The dataset nhanes.samp.adult.500 contains data from 500 participants 21 years of age or older randomly sampled from the NHANES dataset. See the NHANES package for variable definitions and coding.

References

Pruim R (2015). NHANES: Data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Study. R package version 2.1.0,