National long-term care survey and national survey of informal caregivers, 1982
By: principal investigators, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and the Health Care Financing Administration
Series: ICPSR -- 8654; ICPSR (Series) -- 8654
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Older people; Long-term care; Care; Services for
Description: The 1982 National Long-Term Care Survey and the linked National Survey of Informal Caregivers were conducted in 1982 to provide information on the extent of functional limitation in the elderly population who are not living in institutions, on how the elderly are coping with limitations on the activities of daily living (ADL), on the kinds of care they are receiving and who is providing that care, and on the effects on informal caregivers of providing that care. The Long-Term Care survey provides nationally representative data on patterns of functional limitations, medical conditions, recent problems, use of health and social services, type and amount of informal services received along with information on caregivers, demographic characteristics, economic status, living conditions, and cognitive functioning of impaired persons. The Survey of Informal Caregivers provides information on the relationship between caregivers and impaired persons and the kinds of care provided. It also gives information about the caregivers such as costs in terms of out-of-pocket expense, time, inconveniences, and problems, mobility and mobility restrictions because of care, work restrictions, feelings about providing care, and demographic and socio-economic data.
Notes: Survey data.

1)The Detailed Interviews file has four distinct record types as follows: the sample person record with approximately 780 variables, the helper record with about 45 variables, the household member record with about 50 variables, and the children's record with about 175 variables. Each of the 6,393 sample persons has one sample person record and at least one household member record. Each can also have up to 20 helper records, up to 20 household member records, and one children's record. The Detailed Interviews file has a total of 35,304 records. 2) The National Long-Term Care Survey was carried out by the Bureau of the Census, United States Department of Commerce. The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago did the field work for the Survey of Informal Caregivers and contributed to the development of the Long-Term Care Survey.

Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging

ICPSR data class: Class IV

Chronological coverage: 1982; data collected: June-October 1982, and October 1982-January 1983.

personal interviews

United States.

Logical record length format.

Part number: 1 ; part name: Detailed Interviews ; file structure: hierarchical ; logical record length: 1332

Part number: 2 ; part name: Screener ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 35,790 ; variable count: approx. 130 ; LRECL: 516 ; records per case: 1

Part number: 3 ; part name: Caregivers ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 1,924 ; variable count: 609 ; LRECL: 1,440 ; records per case: 1

Multistage probability sample. Social Security's Medicare Beneficiaries file was used as an initial frame followed by a brief screening interview to identify people with limitations.

Universe: Non-institutionalized persons 65 years old and older with limitations in activities of daily living or limitations in instrumental activities of daily living.