U.S. Adult Health Behavior Trends from 1977 and 1983 Surveys

U.S. survey data on smoking, alcohol consumption, and other health practices among adults. The dataset was authored by Charlotte A. Schoenborn and is hosted on the paperswithcode platform. It likely contains tabular survey responses from two specific years, 1977 and 1983.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in smoking prevalence over time (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Model correlations between alcohol consumption and other health behaviors (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Benchmark demographic differences in health practices for policy analysis (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on paperswithcode.
• Focuses on two specific survey years, 1977 and 1983.
• Platform tags suggest coverage of multiple health and social science domains.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file format are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Charlotte A. Schoenborn

Collection Method

Likely contains survey data, but specific methodology is unknown.

Time Range

1977, 1983

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

United States