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Mainstage Variable

hlltb

Health hinders climbing the stairs

Datafile

indresp

Index terms

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
inapplicable	-8	11038	76.55%
Not mentioned	0	2170	15.05%
Climbing stairs	1	1211	8.4%
	Total	14419	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	1	0.01%
inapplicable	-8	11396	76.62%
Not mentioned	0	2199	14.79%
Climbing stairs	1	1277	8.59%
	Total	14873	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	1	0.01%
inapplicable	-8	11618	75.48%
Not mentioned	0	2430	15.79%
Climbing stairs	1	1343	8.73%
	Total	15392	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	6	0.04%
inapplicable	-8	11967	76.63%
Not mentioned	0	2341	14.99%
Climbing stairs	1	1303	8.34%
	Total	15617	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	2	0.01%
Not mentioned	0	14959	92.12%
Climbing stairs	1	1277	7.86%
	Total	16238	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	2	0.01%
Not mentioned	0	15304	92.21%
Climbing stairs	1	1291	7.78%
	Total	16597	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	1	0.01%
inapplicable	-8	16537	87.65%
Not mentioned	0	693	3.67%
Climbing stairs	2	1636	8.67%
	Total	18867	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	5	0.03%
inapplicable	-8	13784	88.34%
Not mentioned	0	547	3.51%
Climbing stairs	2	1267	8.12%
	Total	15603	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	39	0.36%
inapplicable	-8	9707	89.01%
Not mentioned	0	374	3.43%
Climbing stairs	2	786	7.21%
	Total	10906	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	33	0.29%
inapplicable	-8	9876	88.23%
Not mentioned	0	386	3.45%
Climbing stairs	2	898	8.02%
	Total	11193	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	27	0.29%
inapplicable	-8	8560	90.7%
Not mentioned	0	284	3.01%
Climbing stairs	2	567	6.01%
	Total	9438	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	29	0.31%
inapplicable	-8	8358	90.37%
Not mentioned	0	276	2.98%
Climbing stairs	2	586	6.34%
	Total	9249	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	30	0.32%
inapplicable	-8	8568	90.37%
Not mentioned	0	297	3.13%
Climbing stairs	2	586	6.18%
	Total	9481	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	21	0.22%
inapplicable	-8	8738	91.02%
Not mentioned	0	291	3.03%
Climbing stairs	2	550	5.73%
	Total	9600	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	13	0.13%
inapplicable	-8	8984	91.25%
Not mentioned	0	293	2.98%
Climbing stairs	2	555	5.64%
	Total	9845	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	6	0.06%
inapplicable	-8	8838	86.11%
Not mentioned	0	799	7.78%
Climbing stairs	1	621	6.05%
	Total	10264	100.0%

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