National Health Interview Survey, COVID-19, and Online Data Collection Platforms: Adaptations, Tradeoffs, and New Directions

High-quality data are accurate, relevant, and timely. Large national health surveys have always balanced the implementation of these quality dimensions to meet the needs of diverse users. The COVID-19 pandemic shifted these balances, with both disrupted survey operations and a critical need for rele...

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Published inAmerican journal of public health (1971) Vol. 111; no. 12; pp. 2167 - 2175
Main Authors Blumberg, Stephen J, Parker, Jennifer D, Moyer, Brian C
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Public Health Association 01.12.2021
Subjects
Accuracy
Adaptation
Analytic
Bias
Censuses
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Covid-19 and Data Collection
Cross-Sectional Studies
Data collection
Data Collection - methods
Data Collection - standards
Data collection platforms
Data quality
Decision making
Estimates
Field representatives
Health
Health Surveys - methods
Health Surveys - standards
Households
Humans
Internet
Interviews
Interviews as Topic
Microbalances
National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. - organization & administration
Pandemics
Polls & surveys
Public health
R&D
Research & development
Response rates
SARS-CoV-2
Sociodemographic Factors
Statistical methods
Statistics
Surveillance
Surveys
Telephone
Telephone numbers
United States - epidemiology
United States
United States > US
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Summary:High-quality data are accurate, relevant, and timely. Large national health surveys have always balanced the implementation of these quality dimensions to meet the needs of diverse users. The COVID-19 pandemic shifted these balances, with both disrupted survey operations and a critical need for relevant and timely health data for decision-making. The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) responded to these challenges with several operational changes to continue production in 2020. However, data files from the 2020 NHIS were not expected to be publicly available until fall 2021. To fill the gap, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) turned to 2 online data collection platforms-the Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey (HPS) and the NCHS Research and Development Survey (RANDS)-to collect COVID-19‒related data more quickly. This article describes the adaptations of NHIS and the use of HPS and RANDS during the pandemic in the context of the recently released Framework for Data Quality from the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology. ( . 2021;111(12):2167-2175. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306516).
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S. Blumberg led the writing of the article, with substantial input from J. Parker. All of the authors contributed to idea development and edited the final version.
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ISSN:0090-0036
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DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2021.306516