DISCONF
Has serious difficulty concentrating or remembering: Yes or no (family)
Codes and Frequencies
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.
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
- 2008-2009 : SUPP1WT
