diffhear: Hearing difficulty

Description

diffhear indicates whether the respondent was deaf or had serious difficulty hearing.

Availability

Sample	Years
Basic	2009m1 - present
ORG	2008m6 - present

Values

Value	Label
0	Doesn't experience difficulty
1	Experiences difficulty

Code

Variable creation

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* Deaf or hearing difficulty
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gen byte diffhear = .

if $monthlycps == 1 {
    if tm(2009m1) <= $date {
        replace diffhear = 0 if pedisear == 2
        replace diffhear = 1 if pedisear == 1
    }
}

label var diffhear "Hearing difficulty"
#delimit ;
lab def diffhear 
0 "Doesn't experience difficulty"  
1 "Experiences difficulty" 
;
#delimit cr
lab val diffhear diffhear
notes diffhear: 2008m6-present Basic: pedisear