R: Cholesterol data from a US survey

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## Cholesterol data from a US survey

### Description

Data extracted from NHANES 2009-2010 on high cholesterol.

### Usage

    data(nhanes)

### Format

A data frame with 8591 observations on the following 7 variables.

`SDMVPSU`

  Primary sampling units

`SDMVSTRA`

  Sampling strata

`WTMEC2YR`

  Sampling weights

`HI_CHOL`

  Numeric vector: 1 for total cholesterol over 240mg/dl, 0 under 240mg/dl

`race`

  1=Hispanic, 2=non-Hispanic white, 3=non-Hispanic black, 4=other

`agecat`

  Age group `(0,19]` `(19,39]` `(39,59]` `(59,Inf]`

`RIAGENDR`

  Gender: 1=male, 2=female

### Source

ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/nhanes/2009-2010

### Examples

    data(nhanes)
    design <- svydesign(id=~SDMVPSU, strata=~SDMVSTRA, weights=~WTMEC2YR, nest=TRUE,data=nhanes)
    design

[Package survey version 3.32-1 Index]