Description

For persons age 18 and over OSBCONEV indicates if respondents ever had a similar bowel condition. Respondents were asked if they ever had a spastic colon, functional bowel, irritable colon, or irritable bowel syndrome, and then asked to specify which one(s); or they could specify a "similar condition" and the response was recorded verbatim. These terms were respondent defined.

OSBCONEV was part of the 1989 survey Supplement on Digestive Disorders which had 3 sections. The first section asked about specific conditions , such as gallstones, ulcers or colon or bowel conditions, as well as treatment of these conditions.
The second section in the Digestive Disorder Supplement asked about abdominal pain (such as ABPAIN3XYR, had abdominal pain 3 or more times, past 12 months). The third was on normative bowel functions, which such as ABGASTRUBYR, had trouble with abdominal gas in the past 12 months.

Related Variables

Variables for these other conditions are included in the 1989 survey.

Comparability

This variable has no comparability issues.

Universe

Availability

• 1989

Weights

• 1989 : SUPP2WT