NHIS Snapshot 3-Year Content/Periodicity_JAN2026

NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS • NATIONAL HEALTH INTERVIEW SURVEY

SAMPLE ADULT QUESTIONNAIRE
2019
ANNUAL
CORE

2020

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

2027

Chronic Conditions: Hypertension, High cholesterol, Cardiovascular conditions, Asthma, Cancer, Diabetes, Other chronic conditions, Height and weight
Functioning and Disability: Vision, Hearing, Mobility, Communication, Cognition, Self-care and upper-body limitations, Anxiety, Depression, Social functioning
Health Insurance: Coverage status, Sources of coverage, Characteristics of coverage, Continuity of coverage, Reasons for no health insurance
Health Care Access and Use: Primary and urgent care, Financial barriers to care, Prescription medication, Flu and pneumonia immunization, Mental health care, Telehealth
Health-related Behaviors: Cigarettes and E-cigarettes
Demographics: Race and Hispanic origin, Marital status, Sexual orientation, Veterans status, Nativity, Schooling, Employment, Family income, Food-related program participation, Housing, Telephone use

Service Utilization: Dental care, Vision care,
Therapy (physical, speech, rehabilitative,
occupational), Home health care

ROTATING
CORE

2021

Administered to one randomly selected adult in each household

Mental Health
Assessment1

Chronic Pain: Severity
and impact, Locations
Preventive Services:
Screening tests,
Aspirin use

Allergies and
Other Conditions
Psychological
Distress

Industry and Occupation

Mental Health
Assessment1

Injuries
Health-related
Behaviors:
Physical activity,
Walking, Sleep,
Fatigue, Smoking
history and cessation,
Alcohol use

Service Utilization: Dental care, Vision care,
Therapy (physical, speech, rehabilitative,
occupational), Home health care

Chronic Pain: Severity
and impact, Locations
Preventive Services:
Screening tests,
Aspirin use

Health-related
Behaviors:
Physical activity,
Walking, Sleep,
Fatigue, Smoking
history and cessation,
Alcohol use

Allergies and
Other Conditions
Psychological
Distress

Industry and Occupation

Mental Health
Assessment1

Injuries
Chronic Pain: Severity
and impact, Locations
Preventive Services:
Screening tests,
Aspirin use

Service Utilization: Dental care, Vision care,
Therapy (physical, speech, rehabilitative,
occupational), Home health care

Health-related
Behaviors:
Physical activity,
Walking, Sleep,
Fatigue, Smoking
history and cessation,
Alcohol use

Chronic Pain: Severity
and impact, Locations
Preventive Services:
Screening tests,
Aspirin use

Allergies and
Other Conditions
Psychological
Distress

Industry and Occupation
Injuries
Health-related
Behaviors:
Physical activity,
Walking, Sleep,
Fatigue, Smoking
history and cessation,
Alcohol use

Chronic Pain: Severity
and impact, Locations
Preventive Services:
Screening tests,
Aspirin use

Sustaining sponsors* add content every year. Annual sponsored content includes cancer control and prevention (NCI and NCCDPHP), immunizations (NCIRD), noncigarette tobacco product use (FDA), disorders of sensory systems and
communication (NIDCD), and insulin use (NIDDK and NCCDPHP).

SPONSORED
CONTENT

EMERGING
TOPICS

Other sponsors* add content for selected years. Sponsorships include expanded content on arthritis in 2019 and 2023 (NCCDPHP and NIAMS), asthma in 2020 (NCEH, NIOSH, and NHLBI), diabetes in 2019–2025 (NCCDPHP), insulin
affordability in 2021 (NCCDPHP and NIDDK), prescription opioid use and pain management in 2020 and 2025 (NCIPC), age of onset of disability in 2020–2025 (ACL), chronic fatigue syndrome in 2021–2024 (NCEZID), epilepsy in 2021–2023
and 2025 (NCCDPHP), Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis in 2023–2024 (NCCDPHP), psoriasis in 2023–2024 (NCCDPHP), Long COVID in 2023–2025 (NCEZID and NCIRD), occupational health in 2021 and 2023 (NIOSH), life satisfaction
in 2021–2025 (NCCDPHP and NIH/ODP), complementary and integrative health in 2022 (NCCIH), vision in 2023 (NEI), concussions in 2023–2025 (NCIPC), food security in 2019–2024 (USDA), social support and loneliness in 2024–2025
(NCCDPHP), social connectivity and isolation in 2025 (NCCDPHP), caregiving in 2025 (NCCDPHP), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in 2025 (NCBDDD), injectable diabetes medication (other than insulin) in 2025 (NCCDPHP), menopausal
health in 2025 (NIH/ORWH), and whole person health in 2025 (NCCIH).
New topics of growing interest may be added by the National Center for Health Statistics, generally for 1–2 years. Emerging topics include prescription opioid use and pain management in 2019, COVID-related content in
2020 (July)–2022, healthcare access barriers in 2022, transportation barriers in 2022–2024, brief mental health assessments in 2023, everyday discrimination and heightened vigilance in 2023, difficulty paying housing-related bills in
2023–2024, language spoken at home in 2024–2025, injectable diabetes medication (other than insulin) in 2024, and parenting social support in 2025. Questions on civic engagement, volunteer activities, and health information technology
use have been included since July 2022 partly to support weighting and calibration for the NCHS Rapid Surveys System.
* As of July 2025, sponsors include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), National Center for Immunization and Respiratory
Diseases (NCIRD), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH); the National Institutes of Health—National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Eye Institute (NEI), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin
Diseases (NIAMS), National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Office of Disease Prevention (NIH/ODP), and Office of Research on Women’s Health (NIH/ORWH); Administration for Community Living (ACL); U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA); and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
1Questions come from the Patient Health Questionnaire and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale.

To view full-length questionnaires, visit www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/documentation/.
For more information on the National Health Interview Survey, visit www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/.

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