Description

For sample adults, SMELLODOR reports whether the respondent sometimes smelled an unpleasant, bad, metallic, or burning odor when nothing was there, in the past 12 months.

SMELLODOR is one of several questions sponsored by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) to gather information on smell and taste disorders in adults. For more information and a complete list of these variables, see the description for TSTSMDOC.

Comparability

There are no comparability issues with this variable.

Universe

Availability

• 2021

Weights

• 2021 : SAMPWEIGHT