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PAINLIMACT
How often pain limits activities

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Description

For sample adults who had pain some days, most days, or every day in the past three months (PAINFREQ3MO), PAINLIMACT reports how often pain limited the respondent's life or work activities.

Comparability

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NCHS issued a revision to this variable for the 2020 sample which removed responses that inadvertently occurred in Quarter 1 (QUARTER). As of April 2025, IPUMS has applied this revision.

Universe

  • 2019-2021; 2023: Sample adults age 18+ who had pain some days, most days, or every day in the past 3 months (PAINFREQ3MO).

Availability

  • 2019-2021, 2023

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