Description

For sample children age 3 and over, CVSWALDIF reports if the child had any problems or difficulties with swallowing food or beverages that lasted one week or longer in the past 12 months. According to the Field Representative's Manual, swallowing disorders are any of a group of problems that interferes with the transfer of food from the mouth to the stomach.

This variable is part of a series of variables on child communication disorders that constitutes the sample child Voice, Speech, Swallowing, and Language Supplement in 2012. This is the first-ever large-scale communication supplement in the survey. Several variables in this supplement can be used to track the Healthy People 2020 Objectives, under the topic of Hearing and other Sensory and Communication Disorders.

Starting in 2022, this variable was combined with the sample adult version of this variable, VSLSWYR.

For more voice, swallowing, speech, and language communication disorder variables, please see VSLDIAG.

Comparability

There are no comparability issues with this variable.

Universe

Availability

• 2012

Weights

• 2012 : SAMPWEIGHT