Temporal Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sleep Duration in the United States: A National Health Interview Survey Analysis from 2004–2018

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) César Caraballo, Yale School of Medicine; Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation; Shiwani Mahajan, Yale School of Medicine; Jeph Herrin, Yale School of Medicine; Harlan Krumholz, Yale School of Medicine; Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

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Caraballo, César, Mahajan, Shiwani, Herrin, Jeph, and Krumholz, Harlan. Temporal Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sleep Duration in the United States: A National Health Interview Survey Analysis from 2004–2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-10-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/E152741V1

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We include here the code files used to obtain the results reported in the study below:

Caraballo C, Mahajan S, Valero-Elizondo J, et al. Temporal Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sleep Duration in the United States: A National Health Interview Survey Analysis from 2004–2018. medRxiv. 2021.

We used data from the National Health Interview Survey from years 2004 to 2018 to investigate the trends in racial and ethnic disparities in sleep duration.


Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms health disparities; disparities; racism; sleep; sleep duration; short sleep; long sleep
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States of America
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2004 – 2018
Universe:  View help for Universe Adult noninstitutionalized population of the United States.
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) survey data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes
All the data used in this study are publicly available. We obtained the data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series website (https://nhis.ipums.org/nhis/).

Reference: Lynn A. Blewett, Julia A. Rivera Drew, Miriam L. King and Kari C.W. Williams. IPUMS Health Surveys: National Health Interview Survey, Version 6.4 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS, 2019. https://doi.org/10.18128/D070.V6.4



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