Praxis Data Lab · Study Builder

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

ALD240

Evidence developinglow confidence

Questionnaire

The next questions are about alcoholic beverages. When answering think about {your/SP's} use over the past 30 days. How often did {you/SP} drink beer or lite beer?

Source releases: 1
Available cycles: 1999-2000
Dataset: Diet Behavior & Nutrition

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

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DMDBORN2

Compatible with harmonizationmoderate confidence

Demographics

In what country {were you/was SP} born?

Source releases: 2
Available cycles: 2007-2008 · 2009-2010
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

Relevant boundaries: 2007-2008 → 2009-2010

Praxis harmonization actions

Verify merge grain, companion variables, and component-specific analytic guidance for the new file context.

Supporting CDC/NCHS evidence

Source evidence 1

Remove from study Variable history CDC source