9999999 = N.I.U. (Not in Universe).

The Census Bureau applies different disclosure avoidance measures across time for individuals with high income in this variable. Detailed explanations of these methods, topcodes, and replacement value and swap value thresholds are available here.

Description

INCDISA2 reports the amount of disability income (payments from sources other than Social Security and VA payments and due to health problems) received by respondents during the previous calendar year, from the source identified in SRCDISA2. For example, if the source of payments identified in SRCDISA2 were "company or union disability" (code 02), then INCDISA2 would report the amount of income received from company or union disability payments during the previous calendar year.

The first source of disability income reported by an individual is identified in SRCDISA1, and the amount of income from that first source is reported in INCDISA1. If individuals reported only one source of disability income (and received a code of 00 in SRCDISA2) then the INCDISA2 variable has a value of 99999 (indicating no disability income from a second source).

Comparability

If researchers account for the effects of inflation using Consumer Price Index adjustment factors (see INCTOT), INCDISA1 and INCDISA2 are both largely comparable over time. Reported amounts may be more accurate for 1995 and beyond, however, since respondents could report income amounts in terms of weekly, bi-weekly, twice monthly, monthly, or yearly payments beginning in that year; for 1994 and earlier, income information was collected in terms of yearly amounts only.

Researchers interested in the total amount of disability income received, rather than the amount received from specific sources, should use INCDISAB. Because INCDISAB reports the value of disability payments from all sources, the amount reported in that variable may be greater than the sum of INCDISA1 and INCDISA2.

Universe

Flags

Unharmonized Variables

• UH_INCDS2_A1
• UH_INCDS2_A2
• UH_INCDS2_A3