Cognitive ability: Numeric ability: answer: number getting disease
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Question asked in the latest wave:
cogabrelease_w3.nadisease
Question label:
Number getting disease
Question text:
If the chance of getting a disease is 10 percent, how many people out of 1,000 (one thousand) would be expected to get the disease?
Question universe:
if NuAbPre REF (If Resp hasn't refused test)
and if NASofa REF (If Resp hasn't refused test)
Further details:
For further details about this question, please see the questionnaires
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| missing | -9 | 113 | 0.23% |
| inapplicable | -8 | 811 | 1.63% |
| proxy | -7 | 3830 | 7.71% |
| refusal | -2 | 64 | 0.13% |
| 100 (correct answer) | 1 | 39043 | 78.57% |
| wrong answer | 2 | 5831 | 11.73% |
| Total | 49692 | 100.0% |
| Mean | Number Missing | Min | Max | Std Dev | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 4818 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.34 | 44874 |
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