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Abstract:
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Improving data collection methods for people with disabilities has been a national priority for two decades. Mandated by the Affordable Care Act (2010), a six question sequence (6QS) has been implemented in national surveys to identify people with disabilities who self-report difficulties with vision, hearing, cognition, mobility, dressing and going outside the home. To date, there is limited research examining the consistency of estimates using these questions.
Previously, despite finding consistent estimates of outcomes disparities using the 6QS, we found significant variation in prevalence estimates across surveys in 2011. Building on this finding, we examined the prevalence of people with disabilities identified with the 6QS in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), Current Population Survey (CPS), and American Community Survey (ACS) from 2009 to 2014. Overall disability prevalence estimate ranges from the NHIS, CPS and ACS were 35,300,000-40,173,000; 26,881,000-28,402,000; and 33,251,000-36,644,000, respectively. Our preliminary analyses replicated our initial analysis, finding significant differences in prevalence estimates between surveys for the period.
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