Multipurpose survey on households: health conditions and use of medical services (S)

Reference period  
Year:
2005

General characteristics  
Contents:
Health conditions; Medicine consumption; Use of health services (day hospital, first aid, rehabilitation); Hospital services; Visits to family doctors and medical specialists
Analysis units:
Diagnostic tests; Households; Persons; Hospitalisations; Medical visits
Periodicity:
Five-yearly
EU legislation:
No

Survey design  
Type:
Two-stage stratified random sampling

Data collection  
Reporting units:
Households
Data collection mode:
Self-administered paper questionnaire ; Face to face interviewing with paper questionnaire
Total units:
60730
Respondents:
50474

Quality  
Prevention, monitoring and evaluation of unit nonresponse:
Initiatives to foster survey participation; Adjustement methods to reduce the effect of unit nonresponse on the results
Item nonresponse and measurement error treatment:
Operator training and supervision and assessment of survey procedures; Interviewer training, monitoring and supervision; Adjustement methods to reduce the effects of measurement and partial nonresponse errors; Methods to estimate the effects of measurement and partial nonresponse errors; Questionnaire testing
Validation:
Coherence control with data from other surveys or sources; Coherence control with previous data of the same survey; Disseminating quality indicators supporting statistical information

Data dissemination  
Istat data bases:
None
Other data bases:
None
Press releases:
Condizioni di salute, fattori di rischio e ricorso ai servizi sanitari; Gravidanza, parto, allattamento al seno; I fumatori in Italia; Il ricorso alle cure odontoiatriche e la salute dei denti in Italia; Prevenzione dei tumori femminili: ricorso a pap test e mammografia
Timeliness of provisional data:
3 months and 12 days
Timeliness of final data:
1 year, 5 months and 3 days