HILDA Online Data Dictionary Release 23

Variable

wheslu

Label

K1b Which long term health conditions - Difficulty learning or understanding things

Form

CPQ/NPQ

Question No.

K1b

Questionnaire Text

[IF A2i=1 or 2: Which ones? / ELSE [IF A2i=3 and K1=2: Thanks for your responses so far. To finish off we have two more sets of questions: one on your health and views on life, and the final section about retirement / ELSE [IF A2i=3 and K1=1: Now some questions about your health and Your views on life.]] Do you have any long-term health condition, impairment or disability that restricts you in your everyday activities, and has lasted or is likely to last, for 6 months or more? And what type of condition is that?] [IF A2i=1 or 2: PROBE: Any others? / ELSE PROBE using list of conditions. PROBE for multiple conditions.]

Population

Has long term health condition/disability

Subject Area

HEALTH - Long Term Conditions

Survey Wave

Data File

Responding Person File

Frequency

heslu	RP
[-1] Not asked	11122
[0] No	4530
[1] Yes	335

Notes

This long-term health condition had a minor wording change from Wave 4 from "Slow at learning or understanding things" to "Difficulty learning or understanding things". The history variable for year is labelled "Difficulty".

Variable Occurrence

W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W9 W10 W11 W12 W13 W14 W15 W16 W17 W18 W19 W20 W21 W22 W23

Value	Label
0	No
1	Yes

Missing data values

-1	Not asked
-2	Not applicable
-3	Dont know
-4	Refused/Not stated
-5	Multiple response SCQ
-6	Implausible value
-7	Not able to be determined
-8	No SCQ
-9	Non-responding household
-10	Non-responding person