Step 1: Formulate the question: What is the prevalence of diabetes among Hispanic women in NYC?
The second step would be to see if there have been any previous CHS publications that have the data in which you are interested. You first check the Vital Sign Reports publications and find that there is one written on diabetes. After you review it, you realize that it does not give the prevalence of diabetes for Hispanic women. So you go to the CHS EpiQuery website. Choose “Diabetes” from the middle column and then click “submit”. This brings up a table with the survey question and the overall prevalence of self-reported diabetes in NYC (9.0%). Since you want to get the prevalence by sex and race/ethnicity, choose the “select up to two demographic subgroups” button from the blue part of the screen, and then choose “sex” from one box and “race/ethnicity” from the other. Click “Submit”. At the bottom of the table you can find the prevalence of self-reported diabetes among Hispanic women to be 12%. You can then return to the Main diabetes screen by choosing “Same topic, new refinement” t
