Table 4.

Respondents With Inconsistent Responses Across Waves and Their Adjudication, by Chronic Disease

	Preadjudication		After Adjudication Steps 1–4		After Adjudication Steps 1–5
	Respondents With Inconsistent Responses		Inconsistent Respondent Cases That Have Been Resolveda		Inconsistent Respondent Cases That Have Been Resolveda
	Number	Percentage (%)b	Number	Percentage (%)c	Number	Percentage (%)c
Hypertension	1,894	7.84	782	41.29	1,374	72.54
Heart	1,356	5.61	463	34.14	1,005	74.12
Lung	1,011	4.19	283	27.99	590	58.36
Diabetes	704	2.91	327	46.45	450	63.92
Cancer	532	2.20	54	10.15	378	71.05
Stroke	583	2.41	167	28.64	443	75.99
Arthritis	2,370	9.81	630	26.58	1,391	58.69

Note. The unit of analysis for the findings in Table 4 is the individual respondent.

^aA respondent case for a disease is resolved if, after applying the adjudication methodology, the respondent’s pattern of responses for that disease across interview waves became nonproblematic: all “Yes” responses, all “No” responses, or one or more “No” responses followed by “Yes” responses.

^bDenominator is all respondents (N = 24,156).

^cDenominator is all inconsistent respondent cases for the indicated disease.