SENECA_PA_FLOORS

Contact round 1:

PA_FLOORS is based on SENECA variable CLSTAIRS (“Climbing stairs”)

IF CLSTAIRS=0 (“Do not climb stairs”) THEN PA_FLOORS=0;

IF CLSTAIRS=1 (“1-5 flights of stairs per day”) or 2 (“5-10 flights of stairs per day”) or 3 (“>10 flights of stairs per day”) THEN PA_FLOORS=1;

IF CLSTAIRS=8 (“Irrelevant”) or 9 (“No answer/Don’t know”) or . THEN PA_FLOORS=.;

Contact round 2:

PA_FLOORS is based on SENECA variable FCLSTAIR (“Climbing stairs”)

IF FCLSTAIR =0 (“Do not climb stairs”) THEN PA_FLOORS=0;

IF FCLSTAIR =1 (“1-5 flights of stairs per day”) or 2 (“5-10 flights of stairs per day”) or 3 (“>10 flights of stairs per day”) THEN PA_FLOORS=1;

IF FCLSTAIR =8 (“Irrelevant”) or 9 (“No answer/Don’t know”) or . THEN PA_FLOORS=.;

Contact round 3:

PA_FLOORS is based on SENECA variable SCLSTAIR (“Climbing stairs”)

IF SCLSTAIR =0 (“Do not climb stairs”) THEN PA_FLOORS=0;

IF SCLSTAIR =1 (“1-5 flights of stairs per day”) or 2 (“5-10 flights of stairs per day”) or 3 (“>10 flights of stairs per day”) THEN PA_FLOORS=1;

IF SCLSTAIR =8 (“Irrelevant”) or 9 (“No answer/Don’t know”) or . THEN PA_FLOORS=.;

EPIC_PA_FLOORS

Variable N_FLOORS was used for the production of PA_FLOORS according to the following definition and rule.

EPIC var definition(s):
N_FLOORS: number of floors of stairs climbed per day.

Coding rule:
Variable PA_FLOORS shows whether a person is climbing stairs. Is equal to 1 if the number of floors or stairs climbed per day is greater than 0. 

If the number of floors climbed is 0 then PA_FLOORS is coded 0. Otherwise it is set to 9 (missing).

Coding rule in STATA:
-gen PA_FLOORS = 1 if N_FLOORS>0 & N_FLOORS~=.

-replace PA_FLOORS = 0 if N_FLOORS==0

-replace PA_FLOORS = 9 if PA_FLOORS==.