National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses II. Special County Tape/Documentation

摘要

This tape contains an abridged set of data from the second national sample survey of registered nurses provided especially for those who wish to develop an analysis of the distribution of nursing resources on a geographic basis. Questionaires were mailed to about 40,000 individual with current licenses to practice as registered nurses in the fall of 1980. The number of respondents totaled 30,642 or 80 percent of those surveyed. Responses to the survey were weighted to reflect the universe of registered nurses. The estimated number of registered nurses with current licenses to practice located in the United States in November 1980 was 1,662,382. Of these, an estimated 1,272,851 RN's were employed in nursing, 76 percent of the total RN's. The study also provides data on the demographic characteristics of the nurse population, their educational background, type of nursing employment and functions performed, their hours of work and earnings, their activities if not employed in nursing and their geographic location.