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Cognitive Difficulty by Age

Cognitive Difficulty by Age

Description

Share of Older Adults Reporting Serious Difficulty Concentrating, Remembering, or Making Decisions, by Age and Living Alone, 2020

Data Source

American Community Survey (ACS)

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Calculation Methodology

  1. 1
    Select respondents aged 50 and older using the column AGEP with the condition AGEP >= 50.
  2. 2
    Derive age groups from AGEP using bins: 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, and 80+, corresponding to labels 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, and 80+.
  3. 3
    Use the column COGNITIVE_DIFFICULTIES to identify levels of serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions. Exclude the category Unspecified from the analysis.
  4. 4
    Apply the weight column PWGTP to weight each respondent's data.
  5. 5
    Aggregate weighted data by AGEP age groups and by STATE to calculate the share of older adults reporting serious cognitive difficulty.
  6. 6
    Present results as a stacked bar chart showing the distribution of cognitive difficulty by age group and living arrangement categories.

Source Variables using this Indicator (19)

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Visual for Indicator Cognitive Difficulty by Age for 2020

Share of Older Adults Reporting Serious Difficulty Concentrating, Remembering, or Making Decisions, by Age and Living Alone, 2020

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