The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a program of studies designed to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States. An ongoing annual survey combines interviews and physical examinations. The NHANES interview includes demographic, socioeconomic, dietary, and health-related questions. The examination component consists of medical, dental,...

The Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) is part of a family of databases and software tools developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The KID is the largest publicly-available all-payer inpatient care database on children. The unique design of the KID enables national and regional studies of common and rare pediatric conditions. The KID can be used to identify, track, and analyze...

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study is following a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000, roughly three-quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents. The study consists of interviews with both mothers and fathers at birth and again when children are ages one, three and five, plus in-home assessments of children and their home environments at ages...

The National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) provides national data on long-term, intermediate, and short-term indicators key to the design, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive tobacco prevention and control programs. Items measured as part of the NYTS survey include correlates of tobacco use such as demographics, minors' access to tobacco, and exposure to secondhand smoke. The NYTS provides...

The Nurses' Health Studies (NHS) are long-running, questionnaire-based studies on women's health. The study was initiated in 1976 with the NHS cohort. The initial studies focus on cancer, cardiovascular disease and risk factors for chronic health issues in women. The latest cohort, NH3, has been expanded to include both male and female registered nurses and nursing students. Survey and biospecimen...

This data was generated during a study to evaluate how the installation of water jets (drinking water dispensers) in New York City public schools affected student consumption of water and milk. Data was collected from 9 schools which received the intervention and 10 comparison (control) schools at three points: pre-intervention/baseline in November 2010, 3.5 months after installation in March 2011,...

This data was compiled as part of a project to analyze existing administrated data to investigate the impact of the food environment on body mass index BMI. The project aimed to characterize the relationship between population characteristics and the urban food environment, determine the impact of variation in the urban food environment on BMI, and identify interaction effects between demographic characteristics...

This dataset is student-level administrative data. It is compiled by the New York City Department of Education (DOE) as part of their Fitnessgram program. Fitnessgram is a fitness assessment for students K - 12 in the New York City public schools. As a part of this program, data is collected about student height, weight, fitness level, strength, endurance, and flexibility. Data collection began in...

In addition to the aggregate reports available in the NYC Open Data repository, the NYC Department of Education (DOE) provides linkable individual-level administrative datasets to qualified researchers. These datasets include students in grades K - 12 who are enrolled in New York City public schools and school staff. Data may be requested by year or series of years. Below is a listing of datasets...

This dataset contains dietary information collected from 83 children aged 8-12 from two New York City public schools in partnership with Common Threads. Chinese-American students were identified by surname (n=22) for comparison with non-Chinese peers (n=61). Participating students completed two short surveys and dietary assessments between January and June 2017 at 6-month intervals. The dietary assessments...