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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/kidoverview.jsp
September 01, 2025 - Linkage between the Inpatient Core File and the Hospital File
Prior to the 2012 KID, the HCUP hospital … identifier (HOSPID) provided the linkage between the KID Inpatient Core File and the Hospital File. … with the 2012 KID, the KID hospital number (HOSP_KID) provides the linkage between the KID Inpatient Core … To facilitate analysis of trends including the 1997 KID, a new set of KID discharge weights for the 1997 … SAS®, SPSS®, Stata® or similar analysis software
The data set includes weights for producing national
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS96_Overview_122104.pdf
November 01, 2015 - A SAS program to fix the principal diagnosis on the NIS Core A file
and the complete diagnosis vector … 1988-1992
C 8 States in
1988
On CD-ROM,
in ASCII format
5 years of NIS data in a 26-CD set … Release 4 C 1995
C 19 States
Release 5 C 1996
C 19 States
1 year of data in a 6-CD set … Contents of NIS, Release 5, 1996, on CD-ROM – 6-CD Set
CD #1.
1996, Inpatient Stay Core File A, … linkages to other core files
CD #5.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_Introduction_2006.jsp
January 01, 2006 - NIS Data Sources, Hospitals, and Inpatient Stays
State-Specific Restrictions
Contents of CD-ROM Set … Refer to Table 1 in Appendix III for a list of data elements in the Inpatient Core File. … The NIS data set includes only the actual (unadjusted) number of observed discharges. … In some cases, AGE is set to the midpoint of the age category. … DISCWT10
1998-2004
Discharge weight on 10% subsample Core file for NIS 1998 to 2004.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/state/siddist/siddist_filecompmd.jsp
August 01, 2006 - pediatric specialty hospitals were supplied by HSCRC in the Uniform Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Set … Users can link the year-specific skinny ZIP Code files to the same year Core file by using data elements … Starting in data year 2018, the data element ZIP is stored on the Core file.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/kid_2006_introduction.jsp
January 01, 2006 - Data Elements in the KID Inpatient Core File
Table 2. … The CD-ROM contains:
Inpatient Core File : The Core file contains pediatric discharges sampled from … Age in days at admission (AGEDAY) is set to missing on all records. … Admission month (AMONTH) is set to missing on all records. … Birth Weight (BWT) is set to missing on all records.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/tools/stats/FILESPC3_1994.PDF
January 01, 1994 - SPECIFICATIONS
NATIONWIDE INPATIENT SAMPLE (NIS), RELEASE 3, 1994
Year
Links to
Record Layouts Description Data Set … Name
Number of
Records
Record
Length
Number of
Bytes
1994
2 Full NIS, Inpatient Stay Core File … A NIS94_A.ASC 6,385,011 95 619,346,067
4 Full NIS, Inpatient Stay Core File B NIS94_B.ASC 6,385,011 … , Core File DX (diagnoses) NIS94_DX.ASC 27,117,255 20 596,579,610
7 Full NIS, Core File PR (procedures … 2
Core File (A/B/C) N94S2ABC.ASC 638,501 225 144,939,727
13 Core File DX (diagnoses) N94S2_DX.ASC
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/tools/stats/FILESPC2_1993.PDF
January 01, 1993 - NATIONWIDE INPATIENT SAMPLE (NIS), RELEASE 2, 1993
Year
Page Numbers:
Record Layouts Description Data Set … Name
Number of
Records
Record
Length
Number of
Bytes
1993
2 Full NIS, Inpatient Stay Core File … A NIS93_A.ASC 6,538,976 95 634,280,672
4 Full NIS, Inpatient Stay Core File B NIS93_B.ASC 6,538,976 … , Core File DX (diagnoses) NIS93_DX.ASC 25,769,405 20 566,926,910
7 Full NIS, Core File PR (procedures … #2
Core File (A/B/C) N93S2ABC.ASC 653,897 212 139,933,958
13 Core File DX (diagnoses) N93S2_DX.ASC
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/tools/stats/FILESPC5_1996.PDF
January 01, 1996 - FILE SPECIFICATIONS
NATIONWIDE INPATIENT SAMPLE (NIS), Release 5, 1996
Year Layouts Description Data Set … Name Records Length Bytes
Links to Record Number of Record Number of
1996
2 Full NIS, Inpatient Stay Core … 91 608,412,417
5 Full NIS, Inpatient Stay Core File C NIS96_C.ASC 6,542,069 65 438,318,623
6 Full … NIS, Core File DX (diagnoses) NIS96_DX.ASC 30,236,193 20 665,196,246
7 Full NIS, Core File PR (procedures … 10 Core File (A/B/C) N96S2ABC.ASC 654,207 225 148,504,989
Inpatient Stay Subsample 2
13 Core File
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/tools/stats/FILESPC4_1995.PDF
January 01, 1995 - SPECIFICATIONS
NATIONWIDE INPATIENT SAMPLE (NIS), RELEASE 4, 1995
Year
Links to
Record Layouts Description Data Set … Name
Number of
Records
Record
Length
Number of
Bytes
1995
2 Full NIS, Inpatient Stay Core File … A NIS95_A.ASC 6,714,935 95 651,348,695
4 Full NIS, Inpatient Stay Core File B NIS95_B.ASC 6,714,935 … , Core File DX (diagnoses) NIS95_DX.ASC 29,925,734 20 658,366,148
7 Full NIS, Core File PR (procedures … 2
Core File (A/B/C) N95S2ABC.ASC 671,493 225 152,428,911
13 Core File DX (diagnoses) N95S2_DX.ASC
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_Introduction_2005.jsp
January 01, 2005 - NIS Data Sources, Hospitals, and Inpatient Stays
State-Specific Restrictions
Contents of CD-ROM Set … Data Elements in the NIS Inpatient Core Files
Table 4. … in 1988
11 States in 1989-1992
On CD-ROM,
in ASCII format
5 years of data in a 6-CD set … 2000
28 states
2001
33 states
On CD-ROM, in ASCII format
1 year of data in a 2-CD set … Contents of CD-ROM Set
The CD-ROM set contains two CD-ROMs that include fixed-width ASCII formatted
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/tech_assist/standarderrors/508/508course_2016.jsp
January 01, 2016 - ": Keep all observations in the CORE file. … When you select "DATA" The DATA= option requests that the analysis be performed on the NIS 2013 Core … account for all of the hospitals in the sample:
The recommended method uses all of the records in the core … NIS.NIS_2013" Keep all observations in the CORE file. … ;
RUN;
The Hospital File is a supplemental file which is provided with the NIS Core
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/comorbidity/comoanaly2011.txt
September 30, 2011 - *****************************************************************/
/* Macro Variables that must be set … ************/
* Maximum number of DXs; %LET NUMDX = 15;
* Input SAS file member name; %LET CORE … = XXXXXX;
DATA OUT1.ANALYSIS;
SET IN1. … &CORE (KEEP=DRG DX1-DX&NUMDX NDX);
DROP DRG DX1-DX&NUMDX NDX I J DXVALUE A1-A30
HTN HTNCX … OHTNPREG_ THEN HTNCX = 1;
/*********************************************************/
/* Set
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/comorbidity/comoanaly2010.txt
September 30, 2010 - *****************************************************************/
/* Macro Variables that must be set … ************/
* Maximum number of DXs; %LET NUMDX = 15;
* Input SAS file member name; %LET CORE … = XXXXXX;
DATA OUT1.ANALYSIS;
SET IN1. … &CORE (KEEP=DRG DX1-DX&NUMDX NDX);
DROP DRG DX1-DX&NUMDX NDX I J DXVALUE A1-A30
HTN HTNCX … OHTNPREG_ THEN HTNCX = 1;
/*********************************************************/
/* Set
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/comorbidity/comoanaly2012-2015.txt
January 01, 2015 - *****************************************************************/
/* Macro Variables that must be set … ************/
* Maximum number of DXs; %LET NUMDX = 15;
* Input SAS file member name; %LET CORE … = XXXXXX;
DATA OUT1.ANALYSIS;
SET IN1. … &CORE (KEEP=DRG DX1-DX&NUMDX NDX);
DROP DRG DX1-DX&NUMDX NDX I J DXVALUE A1-A30
HTN HTNCX … OHTNPREG_ THEN HTNCX = 1;
/*********************************************************/
/* Set
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/sidoverview.jsp
September 01, 2025 - The SID contain a core set of clinical and nonclinical information on all patients, including individuals … of the 2015 data with ICD-9-CM codes (discharges from Jan 1, 2015 - September 30, 2015) are in one set … data with ICD-10-CM/PCS codes (discharges from October 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015) are in a separate set … HCUP@AHRQ.gov
Return to Contents
SID Hardware and Software Requirements
The SID data set … available, depending on the SID being used
SAS®, SPSS®, or similar analysis software
The data set
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/nrddde.jsp
May 01, 2024 - Core
DISCWT
Weight to discharges in the universe
2010+
Core
Core
DISPUNIFORM … 2010+
Core
Core
DQTR
Discharge quarter
2010+
Core
Core
DRG
DRG in … Core
FEMALE
Indicator of sex
2010+
Core
Core
H_CONTRL
Control/ownership … Core
NRD_STRATUM
NRD Stratum used for weighting
2010+
Core, Hospital
Core, Hospital … Core
YEAR
Calendar year
2010+
Core, Hospital
Core, Hospital
ZIPINC_QRTL
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_Introduction_2008.jsp
January 01, 2008 - Refer to Table 1 in Appendix III for a list of data elements in the Inpatient Core File. … Information from these severity files is to be used in conjunction with the Inpatient Core files. … In some cases, AGE is set to the midpoint of the age category. … in the 2008 NIS Inpatient Core files; but are only available in previous years’ files. … DISCWT10
1998-2004
Discharge weight on 10% subsample Core file for NIS from 1998 to 2004.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_Introduction_2007.jsp
January 01, 2007 - Refer to Table 1 in Appendix III for a list of data elements in the Inpatient Core File. … The NIS data set includes only the actual (unadjusted) number of observed discharges. … In some cases, AGE is set to the midpoint of the age category. … in the 2007 NIS Inpatient Core files; they are only available in previous years’ files. … DISCWT10
1998-2004
Discharge weight on 10% subsample Core file for NIS from 1998 to 2004.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_Introduction_2010.jsp
January 01, 2010 - Refer to Table 1 in Appendix III for a list of data elements in the Inpatient Core File. … For example, the load program for the 2010 NIS Core file is linked to "Core File" under "2010 NIS". … The NIS data set includes only the actual (unadjusted) number of observed discharges. … In some cases, AGE is set to the midpoint of the age category. … records
Age in years (AGE) is set to the midpoints of age ranges defined by the data source.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_Introduction_2011.jsp
January 01, 2011 - Refer to Table 1 in Appendix III for a list of data elements in the Inpatient Core File. … Information from the severity file is to be used in conjunction with the Inpatient Core file. … For example, the load program for the 2011 NIS Core file is linked to "Core File" under "2011 NIS". … The NIS data set includes only the actual (unadjusted) number of observed discharges. … In some cases, AGE is set to the midpoint of the age category.