Baseline revisions

For various reasons, some of the Healthy People 2010 baseline data published in November 2000 in Healthy People 2010: Objectives for Improving Health, have been revised.  There were six possible reasons for NCHS to make changes to previously published baseline figures.

      Revised methodology: Modifications to the specific algorithms used to generate the baseline data were necessary for some objectives.

      Updated to objective baseline year:  Data for demographic groups in the data templates for population-based objectives that were from an earlier year than the baseline for the main objective have been updated to the same data year as the main objective.

      Data previously not analyzed:  The data templates for some population-based objectives did not contain data for the some of the subpopulation categories although the data had been collected. The data have now been analyzed and the designations of "DNA" (for "data not analyzed") have been replaced.

      Data entry error:  Data for a few objectives were changed because the original figures were transcribed incorrectly from the source documents.

      Published based on preliminary analysis:  Baseline figures based on preliminary analysis from less-than-final data files have been updated using the final data files.

      New data source:  Potential sources for developmental objectives were updated to reflect more current information.

A listing of cumulative changes to the published baselines made since the November 2000 publication of Healthy People 2010 is available.

To access this listing, you must select the following option when creating an output data table:

    "Include advanced options in the table"

After the table has been created, the baseline revisions can be accessed by two ways:

If the table includes baseline revisions (i.e. the table contains the footnote line "a\Baseline has been revised (click here to see baseline revisions)", simply click on the footnote line.
or
Under "Advanced options" select - "Baseline revisions" then click "Submit".

Click here to access the baseline revision listing now