DISHEARF
Is deaf or has serious difficulty hearing: Yes or no (family)
Codes and Frequencies
Description
DISHEARF indicates whether the respondent was deaf or had serious difficulty hearing.
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: One half of persons 1 year of age or older in quarter four (who received family-style disability questions).
- 2009: One half of persons 1 year of age or older (who received family-style disability questions).
Availability
- 2008-2009
Weights
- 2008-2009 : SUPP1WT
