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National Survey of Residential Care Facilities - Restricted Facility-Level Dataset
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The 2010 National Survey of Residential Care Facilities (NSRCF) is a first-ever national probability sample survey that collects data on U.S. residential care providers, their staffs and services, and the people they serve. It is designed to provide national estimates of the number of residential care facilities operating in the United States, the number of residents receiving care, and the characteristics of both the facilities and their residents. NSRCF was conducted between March and November 2010. All residential care facilities that participated in the survey were places that were licensed, registered, listed, certified, or otherwise regulated by the state and that had 4 or more licensed, certified, or registered beds, provided room and board with at least two meals a day, around-the-clock on-site supervision, and help with personal care such as bathing and dressing or health related services such as medication management. These facilities served a predominantly adult population and had at least one current resident. Facilities licensed to serve the mentally ill or the developmentally disabled populations exclusively were excluded from the survey.
Scope and Coverage
- The 2010 NSRCF used a stratified two-stage probability sampling design. The first stage, carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), was the selection of residential care facilities from the sample frame of over 39,000 facilities, representing the universe of facilities providing residential care services in the United States. The primary sampling strata of facilities were defined by size (number of beds) and census region. Within these sampling strata, facilities were sorted by metropolitan statistical area (MSA) status and state. For the 2010 NSRCF, 3,605 facilities were systematically and randomly sampled with probability proportional to size.
- United States