Terms Relating to Physician Visits ical examination would include such things as checking weight and height, hearing and seeing ability, heart, and Physician visit .—A physician visit is defined as lungs, depending on the age of the child.
consultation with a physician, in person or bytelephone, Visits of children to the doctor for “shots” or vac
for examination, diagnosis, treatment, or advice. The cination only are not counted as routine physical exam-visit is considered to be a physician visitif the service inations.
is provided directly by the physician or by a nurse or Visits of children to the doctor for a particular ill-other person acting under aphysician’s supervision. For ness condition, for example, a child going at regular. in-the purpose of this definition “physician” includes doc- tervals for a check on a tuberculous or allergic condi
tors of medicine and osteopathic physician. The term tion, are not classified as routine physical examina
tions.
“doctor’’isused in the interview, rather than’’physi
cian, ” because of the need to keep to popular usage.
How-ever, the concept toward which all instructions are di- Demographic, Social, and Economic Terms
rected is that which is described here. Age.- The age recorded for each person is the age Physician visits for services provided on amass at last ,birthday. Age is recorded in single years and basis are not included in the tabulations. A service re- grouped in a variety of distributions depending upon the ceived on a mass basis is defined as any service involv- purpose of the table.
ing only a single test (e.g., test for diabetes) or a sin- Coiov. —In this report the population has been sub
gle procedure (e.g., smallpox vaccination) when this sin- divided into two groups according to race, “white” and gle service was administered identically to all persons “nonwhite.” Nonwhite includes Negro, American Indian, who were at the place for this purpose. Hence, persons Chinese, Japanese, and so forth. Mexican persons are passing through a tuberculosis chest X-ray trailer, by considered white unless definitely known to be Indian this definition, are not included as physician visits. How- or members of another nonwhite race,
ever, a special chest X-ray given in a physician’s office Income of jamil>~ OY of uwelated individuals. - Each or an outpatient clinic is considered to be a physician member of a family is classified according to the total
visit. income of the family of which he is a member. Within the
If a physician is called to the house to see more than household all persons related to each other by blood, one person, the call is considered to be a separate phy- marriage, or adoption constitute a family. Unrelated in
sician visit for each person about whom the physician dividuals are classified according to their own income.
was consulted. The income recorded is the total of all income
re-A physician visit is associated with the person about ceived by members of the family in the 12-month period whom the advice was sought, even if that person did not preceding the week of interview. Income from all sources actually see or consult the physician. For example, if a is included, e.g., wages, salaries, rents from property, mother consults a physician about one of her children, pensions, help from relatives, and so forth.
the physician visit is ascribed to the child. Education oj head oj ~amily OYof unvelated indiv&l-Interval since last physician visit. —The interval uals. —Each member of a family is classified according since the last physician visit is the length of time prior to the education of the head of the family of which he is to the week of interview since a physician was last con- a member. Within the household all persons related to sulted in person or by telephone for treatment or advice each other by blood, marriage, or adoption constitute a of any type whatever. A physician visit to a hospital in- family. Unrelated individuals are classified according to patient may be counted as the last time a physician was their own education.
seen. The categories of education status show the highest
Routine physical examination. — A routine physical grade of school completed. Only grades. completed in examination is defined as an examination into the general regular schools, where persons are given a formal edu
health ofa child under 17 years of age. A routine phys- cation, are included. A “regular” school is one which
advances a person toward an elementary or high school several reasons these categories are not comparable with somewhat similarly named categories in official Federal labor force statistics. First, the responses con
cerning usual activity status are accepted without de-tailed questioning, since the objective of the question is nut to estimate the numbers of persons in labor force categories but to identify crudely certain population X1-LIUPSwhich may have differing health problems. Sec
~md, the figures represent the usual activity status over cm older. Finally, in the definitions of specific categories which follow, certain marginal groups are classified dif
ferently to simplify procedures.
Usually worfzi)zg includes persons 17 years of
Usually lwpiw house includes female persons 17 years of age or older whose major activity is
Marital stat~~s.--hltirital status is recorded only iur persons 17 ywtrs of age or older. The marital
status categories in this report are as follows:
fhde~ 17 includes all persons aged 0-16, re
gardless of their marital status.
Married includes all married persons not sep
arated from their spouses. Persons with common-law marriages are considered to be married.
Never marvied includes persons who were never married and persons whose only marriage was annulled.
Separated includes married persons who have legally separated or who have parted because of other reasons. This does not include person sep
arated from their spouses because of circumstances of employment or because of service in the Armed Forces; these persons are considered married.
Widowed and divomed include, respectively, all persons who reported that they were either wid-owed or legally divorced.
Residence. —The place of residence of a member of the civilian, noninstitutional population is classified as either inside a standard metropolitan statistical area (SMSA) or outside an SMSA, according to farm or non-farm residence.
StandaYd met~opolitan statistical a?’eas. —The defi
nitions and titles of standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSA’S) are established by the U.S. Bureau of the Budget with the advice of the Federal Committee on Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas. There were 212 SMSA’S defined for the 1960 Decennial Census, for which data may be provided for places of residence in the Health Interview Survey.
The definition of an individual SMSA involves two considerations: first, a city or cities of specified popu
lation which constitute the central city and identify the county in which it is located as the central count~ and second, economic and social relationships with con
tiguous counties (except in New England) which are met
lation, which comprises all non-SMSA residents living on farms, and the nonfarm population, which comprises the remaining non-SMSA population. The farm popu
lation includes persons living on places of 10 or more
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products produced on the place and sold at any time during the preceding 12 months.
Region. — For the purpose of classifying
thepopu-Iation by geographic area, the States are grouped into South four regions. These regions, which correspond tothose
used by the Bureau of the Census, are as follows:
Region States Included
Northeast Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, West
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
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Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginiil, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Color~{do, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevad.~, Alaska, Washington, Oregon,
California, Hawaii