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Build your NHANES study with harmonization intelligence.

Combine variables from the indexed Continuous NHANES catalog, choose the cycles you need, and see how Praxis connects source history, methods, cycle boundaries, and cross-code lineage into a study-specific harmonization view.

2variables selected
Praxis harmonization guidance available

Praxis found harmonization conditions for this study and has surfaced them below with the supporting source evidence.

2 variable assessments

ALQ150
Compatible with harmonizationmoderate confidence

Questionnaire

Was there ever a time or times in {your/SP's} life when {you/he/she} drank 5 or more drinks of any kind of alcoholic beverage almost every day?

Source releases
6
Available cycles
1999-2000 · 2001-2002 · 2003-2004 · 2005-2006 · 2007-2008 · 2009-2010
Dataset
Alcohol Use

No blocking method discontinuity is identified inside the selected cycle span, but one or more longitudinal changes require explicit harmonization conditions before pooling.

Evidence provenance: Praxis automated inference from indexed CDC/NCHS evidence

Evidence signals: source-derived

Relevant boundaries: 1999-2000 → 2001-2002 · 2001-2002 → 2003-2004 · 2003-2004 → 2005-2006 · 2005-2006 → 2007-2008 · 2007-2008 → 2009-2010

Praxis harmonization actions
  • Apply cycle-specific eligibility rules and restrict the pooled analytic population to a defensible common target population.
  • Verify merge grain, companion variables, and component-specific analytic guidance for the new file context.
Supporting CDC/NCHS evidence
Remove from studyVariable historyCDC source
AUDTYL10
Compatible with harmonizationmoderate confidence

Examination

Tympanometry-Left Ear, Measurement 10

Source releases
7
Available cycles
1999-2000 · 2001-2002 · 2003-2004 · 2005-2006 · 2007-2008 · 2009-2010 · 2011-2012
Dataset
Audiometry - Tympanometry

No blocking method discontinuity is identified inside the selected cycle span, but one or more longitudinal changes require explicit harmonization conditions before pooling.

Evidence provenance: Praxis automated inference from indexed CDC/NCHS evidence

Evidence signals: source-derived · automated-difference

Relevant boundaries: 1999-2000 → 2001-2002 · 2001-2002 → 2003-2004 · 2003-2004 → 2005-2006 · 2005-2006 → 2007-2008 · 2007-2008 → 2009-2010 · 2009-2010 → 2011-2012

Praxis harmonization actions
  • Verify merge grain, companion variables, and component-specific analytic guidance for the new file context.
  • Review the adjacent codebooks/methods. Keep this boundary as documentation variation unless source evidence confirms a substantive method or instrument change.
  • Apply cycle-specific eligibility rules and restrict the pooled analytic population to a defensible common target population.
Supporting CDC/NCHS evidence
Remove from studyVariable historyCDC source