Well, hello, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Weizmann Institute! And soon CERN, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and the SETI Institute will also be establishing blogs on this platform. It will be interesting to see if they can catch up with us non-institutionalized individuals here.
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The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is the major source of information about the health of noninstitutionalized Americans -- you and me and our neighbors.
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The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) has been conducted since 1957 and is one of the main instruments to get a glimpse at the health of the US population. The NHIS is a "multistage area probability design," or what many call cluster sampling.