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, 2022
Data Source
American Community Survey (ACS)
Calculation Methodology
- 1Select respondents aged 65 or older using the
AGEPcolumn with the conditionAGEP >= 65. - 2Filter respondents by race using the
RAC1PandHISPcolumns according to the race categories: Asian Only, Black or African American Only, Hispanic or Latino (Any Race), White Only, Other Single Race, and Multiple Races. - 3Identify cognitive difficulty status using the
DREMcolumn, excluding the Unspecified category whereDREM = 2. - 4Apply the original weight column
PWGTPto weight the responses. - 5Aggregate weighted counts by
STATEand race categories to calculate the share of adults aged 65+ with increased confusion or memory loss. - 6Exclude respondents with Unspecified cognitive difficulty status from the final calculation.
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, 2022
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