indicator
Cognitive Difficulty by Race
Cognitive Difficulty by Race
Description
Share of Adults Age 50 or Older With Increased Confusion or Memory Loss in the Last 12 Months, by Race & Ethnicity and Whether They Have Talked with a Health Professional about the Decline, 2020
Data Source
American Community Survey (ACS)
Calculation Methodology
- 1Select respondents aged 50 or older by filtering the
AGEPcolumn for values greater than or equal to 50. - 2Use the
RAC1PandHISPcolumns to classify race and ethnicity into categories: Asian Only, Black or African American Only, Hispanic or Latino (Any Race), White Only, Other Single Race, and Multiple Races according to specified conditions. - 3Identify cognitive difficulty status using the
DREMcolumn, excluding responses labeled as Unspecified (whereDREMequals 2). - 4Apply the original weight column
PWGTPto weight each respondent's data. - 5Aggregate weighted counts by
STATEand race/ethnicity categories to calculate the share of adults reporting increased confusion or memory loss in the last 12 months. - 6Exclude respondents with Unspecified cognitive difficulty status from the final calculations.
Source Variables using this Indicator (19)
Visuals Using This Indicator (1)
Share of Adults Age 50 or Older With Increased Confusion or Memory Loss in the Last 12 Months, by Race & Ethnicity and Whether They Have Talked with a Health Professional about the Decline, 2020
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