ACD010CCompatible with harmonizationmoderate confidence
Questionnaire
What language(s) {do you/does SP} usually speak at home?
- Source releases
- 7
- Available cycles
- 1999-2000 · 2001-2002 · 2003-2004 · 2005-2006 · 2007-2008 · 2009-2010 · 2021-2023
- Dataset
- Acculturation
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 → 2021-2023
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.
- Confirm that the construct and coding are unchanged before pooling or recoding.
Supporting 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
RIDRETH1Compatiblehigh confidence
Demographics
Recode of reported race and ethnicity information.
- Source releases
- 16
- Available cycles
- 1999-2000 · 2001-2002 · 2003-2004 · 2005-2006 · 2007-2008 · 2009-2010 · 2009-2010 · 2009-2010 · 2009-2010 · 2009-2010 · 2011-2012 · 2013-2014 · 2015-2016 · 2017-2018 · 2017-2020 · 2021-2023
- Dataset
- Demographic Variables & Sample Weights
RIDRETH1 is retained as the longitudinal five-category race/Hispanic-origin recode, including after the expanded RIDRETH3 variable was introduced in 2011-2012. CDC/NCHS specifically retained RIDRETH1 to support comparison with earlier Continuous NHANES cycles.
Evidence provenance: CDC/NCHS source-confirmed evidence · Praxis deterministic adjudication
Evidence signals: source-stated
Praxis harmonization actions
- Use RIDRETH1 when a common five-category race/Hispanic-origin construct is required across earlier and later cycles. Apply survey-design requirements separately and do not substitute RIDRETH3 categories without an explicit recode.
Supporting CDC/NCHS evidence
SDMVPSUCompatible with harmonizationmoderate confidence
Demographics
Masked Variance Unit Pseudo-PSU 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
