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Information about the health and wellbeing of people in Australia, such as medical conditions, health and lifestyle risk-factors, mental health, and use of health services.

Provides survey content, file structure, available releases and data item lists.

Dataset summary

Asset
PLIDA
Collection
survey
Supplier
ABS
Custodian
ABS
Reference period
2014-2015, 2017-2018, 2020-2021, 2022-2023
Update frequency
Follows ABS publication
Products
16
Tables
28
Unique variables
1,486
Variable occurrences
3,131
Metadata source
PLIDA Data Item List, 19 March 2026
Official information
ABS National Health Survey microdata

Products and tables

NHS has 16 products covering 28 tables.

Product Tables Variables
madip-ge-060101d-nhs1415-mdiact-2014-2015 1 55
madip-ge-060102d-nhs1415-mdialc3-2014-2015 1 9
madip-ge-060103d-nhs1415-mdialc14-2014-2015 1 12
madip-ge-060104d-nhs1415-mdicon-2014-2015 1 12
madip-ge-060105d-nhs1415-mdihhd-2014-2015 1 124
madip-ge-060106d-nhs1415-mdimed-2014-2015 1 9
madip-ge-060107d-nhs1415-mdisps-2014-2015 1 498
madip-ge-070101d-nhs1718-mnhs17a14-2017-2018 1 14
madip-ge-070102d-nhs1718-mnhs17al3-2017-2018 1 12
madip-ge-070103d-nhs1718-mnhs17con-2017-2018 1 15
madip-ge-070104d-nhs1718-mnhs17hhd-2017-2018 1 177
madip-ge-070105d-nhs1718-mnhs17hls-2017-2018 1 140
madip-ge-070106d-nhs1718-mnhs17med-2017-2018 1 13
madip-ge-070107d-nhs1718-mnhs17sps-2017-2018 1 395
madipge-nhs-d-survey-20-21 7 856
madipge-nhs-d-survey-2022 7 750

Variables

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