Description

For persons who needed help for individual home care, CDCNIHC reports the raw ICD-9 codes for conditions causing the need for individual home care. IPUMS NHIS only edited the raw ICD-9 codes to eliminate string characters, but did not perform additional consistency checks on the variable CDCNIHC.

Users are strongly recommended to use the CDCNIHC2, an NCHS-recoded variable based on these ICD-9 codes which reports the generic condition group causing the need for individual home care.

Please use the IHIS drop down menu and search functions for related variables.

Comparability

There are no comparability issues.

Universe

Availability

• 1979-1980

Weights

• 1979-1980 : PERWEIGHT