IPUMS ATUS: descr: PAINMED

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American Time Use Survey Extract Builder

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PAINMED

Pain medication yesterday

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Description

PAINMED is a binary indicator of whether the respondent took pain medication, such as Asprin, Ibuprofen, or prescription pain medication, yesterday.

These data were collected as part of the Well-being Module of the ATUS interview. Research using this variable without activity-level quality of life data should apply WBWT as the weight in analyses; research using this variable in conjunction with activity-level quality of life data should use AWBWT for analyses.

Comparability

This variable is comparable when it is available.

Universe

Well-being module respondents.

Availability

2010, 2012-2013, 2021

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QPAINMED