Funding

CHNS data collection, entering and cleaning, project design and analysis activities were funded by a number of organizations. The major funding of the survey and data dissemination for 1991-2004 has come from the National Institutes of Health (P01-HD28076, and now 16 years of HD30880). Additional funding has come from NIH (HD39183), the Carolina Population Center (in particular, CPC funded CHNS 1989), the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation (INT-9215399), and the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety (formerly named Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene), the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (formerly named Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine).