Health Survey - renewed

Summary

Strengths: The data source provides long time series and high quality data.

Type of data

Data Source
Survey

Type of Study
Survey different

Data gathering method
Telephone
Face-to-face
Other: CAWI

Access to data

Conditions of access
Data cannot be downloaded directly.

Type of available data (e.g. anonymised microdata, aggregated tables, etc.)
Anonymised microdata

Formats available
SPSS (default)

Coverage

Coverage Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes
Data was first collected in 2010/2011 with a net sample of around 15,000 individuals; data collection is ongoing and is scheduled to continue at some point in the future (data collected in 2012 should be released in June 2013).

First year of collection
2010

Stratification if applicable
Post-stratification: weighting model on strata, based on following variables: sex, age, marital status, urbanity, province, district, ethnical background, season of survey, household composition

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
Dutch population

Age range
No age restrictions

Statistical representativeness
Population representative

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
Detailed study of: Health, medical consumption, medical prevention, life style.

Linkage

Standardisation

Possibility of linkage among databases
Linkable to other person databases through anonymised personal number

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable
Survey errors

Breaks
Methodological changes after Health Survey and POLS (Study on Living Conditions - Health); being 2010 the break year. In order to solve this, a new questionnaire and observation strategy have been designed.

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
Methodological changes after Health Survey and POLS; break year: 2010

Governance

Contact information
Department of Labour, Income and Living conditions
Statistics Netherlands
Henri Faasdreef 312
2492 JP Den Haag Netherlands Phone: Infoservice: 003188 570 70 70
Email: info(at)cbs.nl
Url:

Timeliness, transparency
Data is collected annually and is available 6 months after collection.