Description

For sample adults and sample children whose sleep had been disturbed due to wheezing or whistling in the past 12 months(WHEZSLEEP), WHEZSLEEPNO reports answers to the follow-up question, "During the past 12 months, on average, how many times per week has your sleep been disturbed due to wheezing or whistling?" Only sample adults and sample children who had a wheezing or whistling sound in their chest during the past 12 months (WHEZYR) were asked about the effect of wheezing or whistling on sleep.

Other variables based on follow-up questions to those who answered affirmatively to WHEZYR include:

• Number wheezing attacks (WHEZATAKNO)

• Chest sounds wheezy after exercise (WHEZEXER)

• Wheezing ever limits speech (WHEZBARTALK)

• Number doctor/hospital ER visits for wheezing (WHEZVISITNO)

• How much wheezing limited activity (WHEZLIMITACT)

• Days missed due to wheezing (WHEZDAYR)

Comparability

This variable is only available in 1999.

Universe

Availability

• 1999

Weights

• 1999 : SAMPWEIGHT