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    • Nursing Workforce Survey Data (National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses)

    Metadata Updated: July 17, 2025

    The National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN) Download makes data from the survey readily available to users in a one-stop download. The Survey has been conducted approximately every four years since 1977. For each survey year, HRSA has prepared two Public Use File databases in flat ASCII file format without delimiters. The 2008 data are also offerred in SAS and SPSS formats. Information likely to point to an individual in a sparsely-populated county has been withheld. General Public Use Files are State-based and provide information on nurses without identifying the County and Metropolitan Area in which they live or work. County Public Use Files provide most, but not all, the same information on the nurse from the General Public Use File, and also identifies the County and Metropolitan Areas in which the nurses live or work. NSSRN data are to be used for research purposes only and may not be used in any manner to identify individual respondents.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 17, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 17, 2025
    Publisher Health Resources and Services Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier a8f9b63d-e28e-4a36-8ec3-aeb0e7e1559d
    Data First Published 2012-05-30
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-25
    Category Community, Health
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:15
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary https://bhw.hrsa.gov/health-workforce-analysis/data
    Harvest Object Id 57866ec1-4b27-4700-8692-bbcf7333cb0c
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://data.hrsa.gov/topics/health-workforce/nursing-workforce-survey-data
    License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
    Program Code 009:014
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 142ab0f20e26ebe10a360993be214f5f765b3720d308d95f4176d1bc9cc48f9a
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 1978-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/2008-12-31T00:00:00-05:00

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