DISWALKF
Has difficulty walking or climbing stairs: Yes or no (family)
Codes and Frequencies
Description
DISWALKF indicates whether the respondent had serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs.
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
- 2008: Half of persons 5 years of age or older in quarter 4 (who received family-style disability test questions).
- 2009: Half of persons 5 years of age or older (who received family-style disability test questions).
Availability
- 2008-2009
Weights
- 2008-2009 : SUPP1WT
