Codes and Frequencies
An 'X' indicates the category is available for that sample
| Code | Label |
16
|
08
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | NIU | X | X |
| 1 | No | X | X |
| 2 | Yes | X | X |
| 7 | Unknown-refused | X | X |
| 8 | Unknown-not ascertained | X | X |
| 9 | Unknown-don't know | X | X |
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Description
For all sample adults in 2008 and, beginning in 2016, for sample adults who had a balance or dizziness problem in the past 12 months or who had at least one symptom of a balance or dizziness problem in the past 12 months in, FEL5YR indicates whether the person fell at least one time in the past 5 years. Interviewers told the persons that a fall was defined as, "unexpectedly dropping to the floor or ground from a standing, walking or bending position."
The question for this variable was part of the Sample Adult Balance Supplement, sponsored by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
Universe
- 2008: Sample adults age 18+.
- 2016: Sample adults 18+ who had a balance or dizziness problem in the past 12 months or who had at least one symptom in the past 12 months.
Availability
- 2008, 2016
Survey Text
| 2016 |
| 2008 |
QuestionText:
2 No
7 Refused
9 Don't know
SkipInstructions:
Elseif BTYPE_01 = 1 goto BFL_01
Elseif BTYPE_02 = 1 goto BFL_02
Elseif BTYPE_03 = 1 goto BFL_03
Elseif BTYPE_04 = 1 goto BFL_04
Elseif BTYPE_05 = 1 goto BFL_05
Elseif BTYPE_06 = 1 goto BFL_06
(2,R,D) goto next section;
Weights
- 2008, 2016 : SAMPWEIGHT