National Population Health Survey, 1994-95 [Canada]: General File

• Main Author: Statistics Canada. Health Statistics Division
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Borealis 1995
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Activity limitations; Agility; Alcohol consumption; Arthritis; Asthma; Cardiovascular diseases; Chronic health problems; Country of origin; Dental care; Dexterity; Disabilities; Educational attainment; Employment; Ethnic origin; Ethnicity; Health care; Health personnel; Health services; Health indicators; Hearing; Heart attacks; Heart disease; High blood pressure; Home care; Hospital care; Hospital utilization; Household composition; Immigrants; Income; Injuries; Job satisfaction; Labour force; Lone parent families; Marital status; Medicinal drugs; Mother tongue; Occupational stress; Pain relievers; Personal satisfaction; Pets; Physical activity; Physical condition; Physicians; Preventive medicine; Respiratory diseases; Retired persons; Socioeconomic profiles; Sports; Stress; Yukon; Northwest Territories; Canada; Indian; Lone
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/VH4PCW

The National Population Health Survey (NPHS) is designed to collect information related to the health of the Canadian population. The first cycle of data collection began in 1994, and will continue every second year thereafter. The survey will collect not only cross-sectional information, but also data from a panel of individuals at two-year intervals.The target population of the NPHS includes household residents in all provinces, with the principal exclusion of populations on Indian Reserves, Canadian Forces Bases and some remote areas in Quebec and Ontario. Separate surveys were conducted to cover the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and the Institutions (long term residents of hospitals and residential care facilities) and will be presented at a later stage. The NPHS data are stored in four different data sets. Some information was collected from all household members. This information is stored in the General file. From each household, one person, aged 12 years and over, was selected to answer a more in-depth questionnaire related to health. These data are stored on the Health file. Each record on the General file corresponds to a household member. The General file carries the socio-demographic variables as well as health utilization variables. There are 58,439 records and 129 variables in the General file. The Health file contains 17,626 records and 439 variables.The Supplemental file is a subset of the health sample. Certain individuals in the Health sample were asked to answer supplemental questions. This file contains 13,400 records and 1023 variables. A special component of the program is a survey designed for people living in health care institutions, including hospitals, nursing homes, and residential facilities for persons with disabilities. This Institutional file contains data collected in 1995 from 2287 long-term residents of health care institutions in the provinces. Data between the files can be linked using the variable recno.