Description

VETELIG reports the person's eligibility status for the Veterans Self Administered Questionnaire. VETELIG is coded 0 (Not Eligible For VSAQ) if there was no record for the person in the round, if the person was deceased or institutionalized, moved out of the U.S., moved to a military facility, if the person's disposition status was inapplicable, or if the person was less than 18 years old. VETELIG was coded 1 (Eligible For VSAQ and Has VSAQ Data) if a VSAQ record existed for the person in Round 1 (for Panel 24), Round 3 (for Panel 23) or Round 5 (for Panel 22). VETELIG was coded 2 (Eligible For VSAQ, But No VSAQ Data) if no VSAQ record existed for the person in the round. This variable was used as a building block for all other constructed VSAQ variables. See ARMFEV for a full list of variables from the VSAQ. See our documentation on the VSAQ for more information.

To identify veterans eligible for the study, the interviewing process called for first having the Reporting Unit (RU) respondent identify those members of an RU who he or she thought were veterans. The criteria for identifying a veteran were the same used for the American Community Survey (ACS). Note that veterans are identified in the ACS by a household respondent and are not asked to confirm whether this identification is correct.

All RU members so identified as a veteran were asked to complete the VSAQ. The first question of the VSAQ asked the respondent to self-identify as a veteran (ARMFEV). A small percentage of the VSAQ respondents indicated that they were not veterans and thus were ineligible to complete the remainder of the survey.

For confidentiality reasons, VSAQ variables indicating when the veteran was in active duty, whether or not received a disability rating, was a POW, and discharge information are not included in the public data available through IPUMS.

This variable is part of the Veteran Self-Administered Questionnaire (VSAQ), which was fielded in 2018 and 2019 and collected information on veterans' health conditions and health care services. Estimates using VSAQ variables should use the survey weight VETWEIGHT.

Comparability

This variable is comparable over time.

Universe

Availability

• 2018-2019

Weights

• 2018-2019 : VETWEIGHT

Flags