2015 American Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2011 - 2015

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Reference ID

USA_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

United States Census Bureau, IPUMS

Metadata

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Vision or hearing difficulty (US2015A_DIFFSENS)

Data file: USA2015_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 470

End: 470

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

17. a) Is this person deaf or does he/she have serious difficulty hearing? </p>
<div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No</div><p>b) Is this person blind or does he/she have serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses?</p>
<div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No</div>

Categories

Value	Category
1	No vision or hearing difficulty
2	Has vision or hearing difficulty

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the person has vision or hearing difficulty.

Universe

United States 2015: All persons

concept

Concept

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