A small repo containing data from the National Health Information Survey focusing on the use of acupuncture and integrative health practices.
The data is from the 2017 and 2022 NHIS surveys. It was during these two years that respondents were asked about integrative health matters such as acupuncture use and participation in yoga or meditation.
All of the details of the 2022 survey can be found in "NHIS Survey 2022.PDF".
If you are interested in working with IPUMS datasets yourself, follow the links below.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/documentation/2024-nhis.html
This is the CDC's main site where they have links that explain the most recent 2024 NHIS survey.
https://healthsurveys.ipums.org/
This is where you can actually extract data from the surveys (they are quite large).
https://nhis.ipums.org/nhis/extract_instructions.shtml
This walks you through how open the data according to which programming language you are using. You can read the instructions for R on this site to see how it is structured.
Please note: I had some issue with the ipumsr package. Sometimes it would have me reinstall it every once and a while.
If you have any questions about working with NHIS datasets or if you have questions about acupuncture and integrative health please reach out!
~Tony