AAXFLTYPEvidence developinglow confidence
Laboratory
Type of Floor Covering
- Source releases
- 1
- Available cycles
- 2005-2006
- Dataset
- Allergens - Household Dust
No normalized longitudinal change evidence is available for this variable. Absence of events must not be interpreted as proof of cross-cycle equivalence.
Evidence provenance: Praxis automated inference from indexed CDC/NCHS evidence
ARXO2WDEvidence developinglow confidence
Examination
OCCIPUT-TO-WALL DISTANCE IN CENTIMETERS
- Source releases
- 1
- Available cycles
- 2009-2010
- Dataset
- Arthritis Body Measures
No normalized longitudinal change evidence is available for this variable. Absence of events must not be interpreted as proof of cross-cycle equivalence.
Evidence provenance: Praxis automated inference from indexed CDC/NCHS evidence
RIDAGEYRCompatible with harmonizationhigh confidence
Demographics
Best age in years of the sample person at time of HH screening. Individuals 85 and over are topcoded at 85 years of age.
- Source releases
- 13
- Available cycles
- 1999-2000 · 2001-2002 · 2003-2004 · 2005-2006 · 2007-2008 · 2009-2010 · 2009-2010 · 2011-2012 · 2013-2014 · 2015-2016 · 2017-2018 · 2017-2020 · 2021-2023
- Dataset
- Demographic Variables & Sample Weights
RIDAGEYR remains age in years at screening, but CDC/NCHS changed the public-use disclosure top-code from 85 years and older through 2005-2006 to 80 years and older beginning in 2007-2008. The construct is continuous, but exact values in the oldest ages are not directly comparable across that disclosure boundary.
Evidence provenance: CDC/NCHS source-confirmed evidence · Praxis deterministic adjudication
Evidence signals: source-stated
Relevant boundaries: 2005-2006 → 2007-2008
Praxis harmonization actions
- For pooled analyses spanning the 2005-2006 to 2007-2008 boundary, harmonize the upper age range to a common 80+ category or restrict continuous-age analyses to participants younger than 80. Do not treat published top-coded values as exact ages.
Supporting CDC/NCHS evidence
SDMVSTRACompatible with harmonizationmoderate confidence
Demographics
Masked Variance Unit Pseudo-Stratum variable for variance estimation
- Source releases
- 12
- Available cycles
- 1999-2000 · 2001-2002 · 2003-2004 · 2005-2006 · 2007-2008 · 2009-2010 · 2011-2012 · 2013-2014 · 2015-2016 · 2017-2018 · 2017-2020 · 2021-2023
- Dataset
- Demographic Variables & Sample Weights
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 · 2011-2012 → 2013-2014 · 2013-2014 → 2015-2016 · 2015-2016 → 2017-2018 · 2017-2018 → 2017-2020 · 2017-2020 → 2021-2023
Praxis harmonization actions
- Verify merge grain, companion variables, and component-specific analytic guidance for the new file context.
- Select the weight appropriate to each cycle and subsample; when pooling cycles, construct the combined weight according to NHANES guidance rather than reusing a single-cycle weight unchanged.
- Confirm that the construct and coding are unchanged before pooling or recoding.
Supporting CDC/NCHS evidence