Description

ACUTFALL indicates whether the person used acupuncture therapy to treat food or digestive allergies. Please see the Comparability and Universe tabs for more information on how this variable was constructed.

Comparability

In 2007 food allergies were only included as a condition only for sample children ages 4-17. Beginning in 2012, sample adults and sample children ages 4-17 were both asked about food and digestive allergies.

Prior to 2012, in universe persons were asked about a series of specific health problems, symptoms, or conditions they may have treated with different complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies. Beginning in 2012, persons were instead asked to select three of sixteen therapies that were most important and only asked the series of questions related to treating health problems, symptoms, or conditions about these top three therapies. Respondents were only asked follow-up questions about the CAM therapies that they included among their top three CAM therapies. Persons who did not include acupuncture therapy among their top three CAM therapies are recording as responding "no" to ACUTFALL. For more information on the construction of this variable, please see TABDOM1.

Additionally, prior to 2007 only sample adults could report using a CAM therapy to treat food or digestive allergies. However, beginning in 2007, sample children aged 4-17 could also report treating food or digestive allergies using a CAM therapy.

Universe

Availability

• 2002, 2007, 2012

Weights

• 2002, 2007 : SAMPWEIGHT
• 2012 : SUPP4WT