DD Data Brief: Problems in Defining Mental Retardation and Developmental Disability: Using the National Health Interview Survey
Part of the DD Data Brief series.
- Author(s)
- Gerry Hendershot, Sheryl A Larson, Charlie Lakin, Robert Doljanac
Description
A brief offering a second look at the 1997-2004 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and its usefulness in describing the characteristics and needs of persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities (ID/DD) in the non-institutionalized U.S. population. This issue describes the authors' attempt to create an operational definition of intellectual and developmental disability using the NHIS surveys.
Details
- Date
- June 2005
- Type
- Brief
- Edition
- Volume 7, Number 1
- Publisher
- Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC-CL)
Topics
- Specific disability
- Intellectual/developmental disability (IDD)