Disability Questions Tests 2008/2009 File

The Disability Questions Tests 2008/2009 file contains five calendar quarters of person-level data collected via a field test of six disability questions. The questions appeared on the NHIS, at the end of the Family Core, beginning in October 2008 and running through December 2009. Conducted using a split-ballot format, the field test comprised one component of a larger testing effort to develop and adopt a standard set of disability questions to be used with multiple surveys across multiple countries.

• Disability Questions Tests 2008/2009 File Description Document [PDF - 26 KB] (Updated July, 2010)
• Dataset [EXE - 853 KB]
• Variable Summary [PDF - 27 KB]
• Variable Layout [PDF - 107 KB]
• Variable Frequencies [PDF - 21 KB]
• Sample SAS Statements [SAS - 8 KB]
• Sample SPSS Statements [SPS - 6 KB]
• Sample STATA Statements [DO - 6 KB]