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BEANYR
Recode: frequency eating beans, times per year
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Codes

BEANYR is a 4-digit-numeric variable.

0: Never or less than 6 times per year
9996: Not in Universe
9997: Unknown-refused
9998: Unknown-not ascertained
9999: Unknown-don't know

Description

For sample adults, BEANYR is a recoded variable that reports how many times per year the respondent consumed cooked dried beans. This does not include green beans; examples provided of cooked dried beans include baked, pinto, or kidney beans, including beans in soup or chili. This recoded variable is based on the responses to BEANNO, which reports the frequency with which the respondent ate cooked dried beans and BEANTP, which reports the corresponding time unit. For information about the portion size, see BEANSIZ.

BEANYR is part of a series of variables initiated in 1987 related to food, food knowledge, and cancer. For related variables, please use the IPUMS NHIS search function and drop-down menus.

Comparability

Prior to 2000, respondents were asked about foods they usually ate in the past year. Beginning in 2000, this recall period was reduced to foods the respondent usually ate in the past month. The structure of the responses (recording number of times a food was consumed and the time unit associated with that frequency) makes it possible to compare response categories even with different recall periods. In 2005, this format of separate frequency and time units was not used; instead respondents' answers were organized into pre-defined categories. Researchers interested in using all years of available data may consider seeing the 2005 variable BEANSMO, and modifying BEANNO and BEANTP to correspond to the pre-defined categories from 2005.

The specific list of examples of cooked dried beans varies slightly between survey years. Please see the Survey Text tab for the exact phrasing of each year's question.

Changes in survey design (e.g., quarters in which the supplement was collected) may affect raw frequencies, but do not affect comparability of the variable. As always, data users should use the prescribed IHIS weights.

Universe

  • 1987: Half of sample persons age 18+ (excluded from CACT supplement).
  • 1992: Half of sample persons age 18+ in quarters 1 and 2, and in 2 weeks of quarter 3 (excluded from CACT supplement).
  • 2000: Sample adults age 18+.

Availability

  • 1987, 1992, 2000

Weights