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Survey of Disabled and Nondisabled Adults, 1972: [United States] (ICPSR 2731)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Health and Human Services. Social Security Administration
Summary: This survey was designed to examine the economic, medical, and social consequences of disability for disabled persons and their families. For the survey data were collected from nondisabled, disabled, newly disabled, and recovered disabled people in the following subject areas: family background, labor force and work experience, health conditions, work limitations, government programs used, rehabilitation services used, personal attitudes, health insurance and medical care, family income,... (more info)
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Citation
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration. SURVEY OF DISABLED AND NONDISABLED ADULTS, 1972: [UNITED STATES]. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration [producer], 1972. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02731.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02731.v1
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Scope of Study
Summary: This survey was designed to examine the economic, medical, and social consequences of disability for disabled persons and their families. For the survey data were collected from nondisabled, disabled, newly disabled, and recovered disabled people in the following subject areas: family background, labor force and work experience, health conditions, work limitations, government programs used, rehabilitation services used, personal attitudes, health insurance and medical care, family income, assets and debts, family and social relations, Social Security Administration entitlement data, and Social Security Administration earnings data.
Subject Terms: adults, disabled persons, disabilities, disability income, family background, health insurance, health status, labor force, medical care, rehabilitation programs, social attitudes, social security, United States
Time Period:
- 1970
Date of Collection:
- 1970
Universe: Civilian noninstitutionalized adults aged 18-64 in 1970.
Data Types: survey data
Data Collection Notes:
The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
Methodology
Sample: Multistage cluster design.
Data Source:
personal interviews
Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 2001-07-03
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