DISHEARS
Is deaf or has serious difficulty hearing: Yes or no (sample adults and children)
Codes and Frequencies
Description
DISHEARS indicates whether the respondent was deaf or had serious difficulty hearing.
There are six disability questions in the test file that comprised one component of a larger testing effort to develop and adopt a standard set of disability questions to be used with multiple surveys across multiple countries. For more information, please refer to the User Note for disability.
Universe
- 2011-2012: sample adults 18+ and random number generator=1; sample children 1-17 years and random number generator=1
Availability
- 2011-2012
Weights
- 2011-2012 : SUPP3WT
