# Creating panel data from multi-year NHIS respondents

**URL:** https://forum.ipums.org/t/creating-panel-data-from-multi-year-nhis-respondents/2726
**Category:** HEALTH SURVEYS
**Created:** [January 3, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/creating-panel-data-from-multi-year-nhis-respondents/2726 "2019-01-03T22:59:00Z")
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### Author: ![lloyd.balbuena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lloyd.balbuena](https://forum.ipums.org/u/lloyd.balbuena)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/creating-panel-data-from-multi-year-nhis-respondents/2726/1 "2019-01-03T22:59:00Z")

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Would there be a way to construct panel data of households or families that responded in multiple years?

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### Author: ![arifaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@arifaa](https://forum.ipums.org/u/arifaa)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/creating-panel-data-from-multi-year-nhis-respondents/2726/2 "2019-01-04T13:17:00Z")

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NHIS is not a longitudinal/panel survey. The survey does not interview same households or individuals each year.