China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS)
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
CHNS is an ongoing open cohort survey collecting household, individual, and community data on health, nutrition, and socioeconomic factors across 15 provinces and municipal cities in China, run jointly by UNC's Carolina Population Center and the National Institute for Nutrition and Health at China CDC. It is used to study how social and economic change affects health and nutritional status, and researchers can download the data after registering on the project website.
Category
Research database
Access
Free registration
Region
Asia — China
Data types
longitudinal survey, nutrition, biomarkers, household and community data