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| Should disability items in the census be used for planning services for elders? | | Author(s) | Robert J Calsyn, Joel P Winter, Robert D Yonker |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 41, no 5, October 2001 |
| Pages | pp 583-588 |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Census ; Services ; Needs [elderly] ; Planning [admin] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In the US, Census data have provided planners with information regarding estimates of the numbers of people requiring particular services. The main aim of this study was to determine how well disability questions in the 1990 and 2000 Census correlated with a standard measure of disability. Questionnaires containing both the census disability questions and a standard measure of disability were posted to 4,508 older people; 1,514 completed surveys were returned. To assess reliability, 472 of these respondents were re-interviewed by phone. All three disability measures were collapsed into the following three categories: no needs; instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) needs only; and activities of daily living (ADLs) needs. All three disability measures exhibited moderate to good test-retest reliability. Using a standard measure of disability as the criterion, validity of the 1990 Census measure was quite low. Validity for the 2000 Census was moderate to good, suggesting that its disability questions may be sufficiently valid for planning purposes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-011129209 A |
| Classmark | BN: S4C: I: IK: QA6: 7T |
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