The California Health Interview Survey 2001: translation of a major survey for California's multiethnic population.

摘要: The cultural and linguistic diversity of the U.S. population presents challenges to design implementation population-based surveys that serve inform public policies. Information derived from such may be less than representative if groups with limited or no English language skills are not included. California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), first administered in 2001, is a health survey more 55,000 households. This article describes process designers CHIS 2001 underwent culturally adapting translating it into an unprecedented number languages: Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Khmer. multiethnic multilingual illustrates importance adaptation raising quality surveys, especially when populations they intend represent as diverse California's.