DISEEF
Is blind or has serious difficulty seeing: Yes or no (family)
Codes and Frequencies
An 'X' indicates the category is available for that sample
| Code | Label |
09
|
08
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | NIU | X | X |
| 1 | No | X | X |
| 2 | Yes | X | X |
| 7 | Unknown-refused | X | X |
| 8 | Unknown-not ascertained | X | X |
| 9 | Unknown-don't know | X | · |
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Description
DISEEF indicates whether the respondent was blind or had serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses.
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: One half of persons age 1 or older in quarter 4 (who received the family-style disability questions).
- 2009: One half of persons age 1 or older (who received the family-style disability questions).
Availability
- 2008-2009
Weights
- 2008-2009 : SUPP1WT