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CHIS data was used by the Los Angeles City Council to support a recent fast-food restaurant moratorium in south Los Angeles. Read more about how fast-food restaurants and obesity are linked in the ground-breaking publication, Designed for Disease.

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721,802	Number of total visitors to the CHIS website (and the website of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, where many CHIS publications are posted) in a 12 month period ending February 2010.
24,265	People who have obtained CHIS data through AskCHIS.
454,113	The number of results AskCHIS has returned to users.
50,000	The approximate number of people - adults, teenagers and children - CHIS interviews.
5	The number of languages used in CHIS interviews: English, Spanish, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), Korean and Vietnamese.
2001	The year of the first CHIS survey.
2007	The latest CHIS survey cycle, released in December 2008.
2009	The next CHIS survey, currently underway.