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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Frailty Aging. 2014;3(3):187–192. doi: 10.14283/jfa.2014.22

Table 3.

Weighted disability estimates and measures of uncertainty for cognitive, hearing, and vision items

Cognitive
Disable* %D SE MOE LCL UCL§ RU# Allocated** %A††
NLW 3,340,452 10.33% 13,113 25,702 3,314,750 3,366,154 1.18% 1,014,836 3.14%
NLB 528,005 15.53% 5,608 10,991 517,014 538,996 3.19% 175,503 5.16%
NLO 231,252 11.95% 4,036 7,911 223,341 239,163 5.24% 104,579 5.40%
MEX 211,920 14.29% 2,788 5,464 206,456 217,384 3.95% 63,830 4.30%
NML 194,226 14.65% 5,974 11,709 182,517 205,935 9.23% 66,721 5.03%

Hearing
Disable %D SE MOE LCL UCL RU Allocated %A

NLW 5,310,752 16.42% 18,008 35,297 5,275,455 5,346,049 1.02% 859,033 2.66%
NLB 365,961 10.77% 4,443 8,709 357,252 374,670 3.64% 145,539 4.28%
NLO 262,556 13.56% 3,090 6,056 256,500 268,612 3.53% 77,490 4.00%
MEX 247,618 16.69% 5,015 9,829 237,789 257,447 6.08% 52,240 3.52%
NML 162,986 12.29% 2,566 5,029 157,957 168,015 4.72% 55,997 4.22%

Vision
Disable %D SE MOE LCL UCL RU Allocated %A

NLW 2,217,473 6.85% 18,949 37,140 2,180,333 2,254,613 2.56% 1,115,682 3.45%
NLB 362,861 10.68% 4,929 9,661 353,200 372,522 4.08% 166,883 4.91%
NLO 140,940 7.28% 3,462 6,786 134,154 147,726 7.37% 85,241 4.40%
MEX 162,348 10.95% 2,600 5,095 157,253 167,443 4.80% 58,445 3.94%
NML 128,275 9.67% 4,707 9,225 119,050 137,500 11.01% 59,871 4.52%

SE: Standard Error; MOE: Margin of Error; NLW: Non-Latino-White; NLB: Non-Latino-Black; NLO: Non-Latino-Other; MEX: Mexican-Latino; NML: Non-Mexican-Latino;

*

Weighted number of people reporting difficulty with item;

Percent disable (%D)= [(weighted disable count ÷ weighted total population) × 100] (Note: denominator available in Table 1);

95% Lower Confidence Limit (LCL)=[Disable − MOE];

§

95% Upper Confidence Limit (UCL)=[Disable + MOE];

#

Range of Uncertainty (RU) = {[(SE × 3) ÷ disable] × 100};

**

Number of responses to disability item which are assigned or changed (includes non-disable individuals);

††

Percent Allocated (%A)= [(weighted allocated count ÷ weighted total population) × 100] (Note: denominator available in Table 1)