National Comorbidity Survey: Reinterview (NCS-2), 2001-2002 [Restricted-Use] (ICPSR 30921)

Version Date: Mar 4, 2024

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Principal Investigator(s):
Ronald Kessler, Harvard University. Harvard Medical School. Department of Health Care Policy

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR30921.v3

Version V3 ()

  • V3 [2024-03-04]
  • V2 [2016-07-29] unpublished
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Alternate Title

NCS-2, 2001-2002

Summary

The NCS-2 was a re-interview of 5,001 individuals who participated in the Baseline (NCS-1). The study was conducted a decade after the initial baseline survey. The aim was to collect information about changes in mental disorders, substance use disorders, and the predictors and consequences of these changes over the ten years between the two surveys. The collection contains four major sections: the main survey, demographic data, diagnostic data, and state, county, and tract FIPS data.

In the main survey, respondents were asked about general physical and mental health. Questions focused on a variety of health issues, including limitations caused by respondents' health issues, substance use, childhood health, life-threatening illnesses, chronic conditions, medications taken in the past 12 months, level of functioning and symptoms experienced in the past 30 days, and any services used by the respondents since the (NCS-1). Additional questions focused on mental disorders including depression, bipolar disorder, specific and social phobias, generalized anxiety, intermittent explosive disorder, suicidality, post-traumatic stress disorder, neurasthenia, pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and separation anxiety. Respondents were also asked about their lives in general, with topics including employment, finances, marriage, children, their social lives, and stressful life events experienced in the past 12 months. Additionally, two personality assessments were included consisting of respondents' opinions on whether various true/false statements accurately described their personalities. Another focus of the main survey dealt with substance use and abuse, nonmedical use of prescription drugs, and polysubstance use. Interview questions in the NCS-2 Main Survey were customized to each respondent based on previous responses in the Baseline (NCS-1).

The second part contains demographic and other background information including age, education, employment, household composition, household income, marital status, and region.

The third part focuses on whether respondents met diagnostic criteria for psychological disorders asked about in the main survey.

The fourth part contains respondents' state, county, and tract FIPS data.

Citation

Kessler, Ronald. National Comorbidity Survey: Reinterview (NCS-2), 2001-2002 [Restricted-Use]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-03-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR30921.v3

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Funding

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Mental Health

Subject Terms

alcohol   alcohol consumption   anxiety   childhood   children   chronic disabilities   chronic illnesses   depression (psychology)   disabilities   drug abuse   drug treatment   drug use   drugs   emotional disorders   employment   fatigue   finance   financial assets   hallucinogens   health problems   health status   heroin   inhalants   life events   marijuana   marriage   medications   mental disorders   mental health   mental health services   personality assessment   post-traumatic stress disorder   prescription drugs   psychiatric services   psychological effects   psychological wellbeing   psychosocial assessment   sedatives   self medication   smoking   social attitudes   social behavior   social history   social life   stimulants   substance abuse   suicide   tobacco products   tobacco use   tranquilizers

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

FIPS code

Restrictions

This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, the data files in this collection are restricted from general dissemination. To obtain these restricted files, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2001 -- 2002

Date of Collection

2001 -- 2002

Data Collection Notes

  1. The variable RESPID, which is a unique respondent identification number, corresponds to the same identification number assigned in the NCS-1 Baseline file under the variable name CASEID. When merging the two datasets together please rename CASEID to RESPID in the Baseline file prior to the merge occurring.

  2. Users should be aware that when merging the NCS-2 data to the NCS-1 baseline data, the Demographic and Diagnostic sections use some of the same variable names. These variables in one of the files (NCS-1 or NCS-2) will need to be renamed before merging in order for the merged file to retain these variables from each data set.

  3. The data file for the Main Survey (DS0001) does not contain value labels or missing value assignments at this time. These will be added at a later time. Note the data do contain user-assigned missing values. Please reference the questionnaire to obtain labels for the values of individual variables. Because of the lack of labels the codebook for the Main Survey does not contain any frequency tables at this time.

  4. The Demographic (DS0002) and Diagnostic (DS0003) data files do contain value labels and missing values assignments. Therefore, the codebooks for these two parts do contain frequency tables.

  5. The public-use version of NCS-2 can be accessed by visiting the public-use NCS-2 study home page, ICPSR 35067.
  6. For more information on the National Comorbidity Survey, please visit the NCS Web site.
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Time Method

Longitudinal: Panel

Universe

The population for NCS-1 included persons aged 15 to 54 years in the noninstitutionalized civilian population in the 48 contiguous United States. NCS-2 is a reinterview of that population, ten years after the NCS-1 survey.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Description of Variables

  • Data set 1: Variables include general physical and mental health, including limitations caused by respondents' health issues, substance use, childhood health, life-threatening illnesses, chronic conditions, medications taken in the past 12 months, level of functioning and symptoms experienced in the past 30 days, and any services used by the respondents since the (NCS-1). Mental disorders including depression, bipolar disorder, specific and social phobias, generalized anxiety, intermittent explosive disorder, suicidality, post-traumatic stress disorder, neurasthenia, pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and separation anxiety. Respondents' lives in general, with topics including employment, finances, marriage, children, their social lives, and stressful life events experienced in the past 12 months. Substance use and abuse, nonmedical use of prescription drugs, and polysubstance use are also included.
  • Data set 2: Variables include demographic and other background information including age, education, employment, household composition, household income, marital status, and region.
  • Data set 3: Variables include diagnostic criteria for psychological disorders asked about in the main survey.
  • Data set 4: Variables include respondents' state, county, and tract FIPS data.

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Original Release Date

2013-04-03

Version History

2024-03-04 A data set (DS0004) that includes state, county, and tract FIPS data was added and made available for download.

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Kessler, Ronald. National Comorbidity Survey: Reinterview (NCS-2), 2001-2002 [Restricted-Use]. ICPSR30921-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-03-04. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR30921.v3

2016-07-29 Codebooks and questionnaires were released and made available for download.

2013-04-03 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
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Weight

The data are not weighted. Dataset 2 contains the weight variable NCS2WEIGHT, which should be used in analysis. No additional weight information was provided.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

  • One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions. Restricted data files are not available for direct download from the website; click on the Restricted Data button to learn more.