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DISCONF
Has serious difficulty concentrating or remembering: Yes or no (family)
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Description

DISCONF indicates whether the respondent had serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions, because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition.

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.

Comparability

There are no comparability issues.

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