Data Dictionary: Health 2000 and 2011 - Finland

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Background Information
What is your mother tongue?
Current marital status
Which year did your current relationship (marriage or cohabitation) begin?
Which year did you divorce?
Which year did you become widowed?
Have you earlier been married or had a common-law relationship with someone else?
How many marriages or common-law relationships have you had? (including your current/last relationship)?
How many people belong to your household at the moment, including yourself?
What year was he/she born? (Holsehold people)
His/her gender (Holsehold people)
How is he/she related to you? (Holsehold people)
Which other relation? (Holsehold people)
Basic education level
Highest completed education or examination after your basic education
How many years altogether have you studied full-time, including primary school?
Employment status
Do you receive a part-time disability pension?
Do you receive a part-time pension?
Do you receive a work disability pension or other early retirement pension
Do you receive an old age pension (due to your age or working years)
Do you receive an unemployment pension
Do you receive some other pension
How many months has your current unemployment or temporary lay-off period
And have you worked at all in a paid job during the past 12 months?
Have you worked full-time
Have you worked part-time
Which year have you last been employed?
Would you like to work full-time or at least occasionally some hours per week
Type of present occupation
What is your present/latest (previous) occupation?
Name of present occupation
What are/were your most important working tasks?
How many years altogether have you worked in your present/latest occupation?
Type of employer
How many years altogether have you worked in your present/latest occupation?
Is/was your present/latest employment teporary or permanent?
How many job contracts (or jobs) have you had during the past 12 months?
What sort of hours do/did you work in your main occupation
What is/was your weekly working time in your main job in hours?
How much time (in minutes) does your way to work and back on the average take on a normal working day?
Have you been unemployed or laid off during the past 5 years?
How many times?
How many months have you been unemployed or laid off during the past 5 years?
How many times altogether have you been unemployed or laid off during the past 5 years including the present period?
How many months altogether?
Spouse’s current main activity
Is he/she on invalidity pension or other early retirement
Is he/she on old age pension (due to his/her age or working years)
Is he/she on unemployment pension
Is he/she

Health and Illnesses
Present state of health
Do you have any permanent or chronic illness or any defect, trouble or injury, which reduces your working capacity or functional ability?
Have you had to change your occupation or working tasks because of your illness or handicap since the year 2000?
Since the year 2000, have you had to change your occupation
Since the year 2000, have you had to change your job
Since the year 2000, have you had to move over to other tasks in your place of work
Since the year 2000, have you had to reduce or give up some task permanently?
Has a doctor ever diagnosed you with asthma
Has a doctor ever diagnosed you with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)?
Has a doctor ever diagnosed you with chronic bronchitis?
Has a doctor ever diagnosed you with other respiratory disease?
Has a doctor ever diagnosed you with Coronary thrombosis i.e. myocardial infarction?
Has a doctor ever diagnosed you with Coronary heart disease (angina pectoris)?
How much do the coronary disease symptoms trouble you in your daily activities?
Have you had shortness of breath or difficulties in breathing because of asthma during the past 12 months?
How often have you had shortness of breath or difficulties in breathing because of asthma during the past 12 months?
Have you had Coronary by-pass surgery?
Have you had Balloon distension (PTCA)?
Have you had Heart failure, cardiac insufficiency?
Have you had some other heart disease?
Do you have heart arrhythmia
Do you have congenital heart disease
Do you have valvular heart disease
Do you have heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathia) or inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis)
Do you have other heart disease or inflammation of the heart
Do you have High blood pressure, hypertension?
How many times has your blood pressure been measured during the past 12 months?
Do you have Stroke (cerebral haemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis)?
Do you have Varicose veins in the lower extremities?
Do you have Rheumatoid arthritis?
Do you have Osteoarthritis (arthrosis, joint degeneration)?
In which joints?
Do you have a hip endoprosthesis?
Do you have a knee endoprosthesis?
Do you have Back disease or other back defect?
Which back disease?
Do you have Neck disease or other defect in the neck?
Which neck disease?
Do you have Fracture or fractures (broken bones)?
Where have you had fractures?
Do you have Osteoporosis (bone loss)?
In which bone do you have Osteoporosis?
Do you have Permanent injury or defect caused by an accident?
Is it a face or chin injury?
(Do you have) a permanent head or brain injury (caused by an accident)?
(Do you have) a permanent vision defect (caused by an accident)?
(Do you have) a permanent hearing defect (caused by an accident)?
(Do you have) a permanent injury in the upper limb/s (caused by an accident)?
(Do you have) a permanent hip fracture or its consequence (caused by an accident)?
(Do you have) some other permanent injury of the lower limb/s (caused by an accident)?
(Do you have) a permanent injury of the trunk or back (caused by an accident)?
(Do you have) a permanent pulmonary injury (caused by an accident)?
(Do you have) some other permanent injury (caused by an accident)?
Has a doctor ever diagnosed you with a psychological or mental illness?
What type of mental illness is it?
Which year was it diagnosed for the first time?
Do you currently receive any other treatment for it, e.g. psychotherapy?
Do you have Cataract in the eyes?
Are you followed-up by an ophthalmologist (eye specialist) because of it?
Have you had an eye operation because of it?
Do you have Glaucoma?
Have you received laser treatment of the eyes because of it?
Do you have Eye ground degeneration?
Do you have Other visual defect or injury?
Do you have Hearing defect, hearing injury or disease causing impaired hearing?
Do you have noise injury
Do you have congenital hearing defect
Do you have declined hearing, age-related
Do you have deafness, deafness of one ear
Do you have tinnitus, ringing in the ears
Do you have infection, secretory inflammation of the middle ear, cholesteatoma
Do you have disease of the eardrum
Do you have diseases of the ear canal
Do you have war injury, accident
Do you have earache
Do you have Ménière’s disease
Do you have otosclerosis
Do you have complication of another illness
Do you have Diabetes?
Do you use tablets or insulin or both?
How many times has your blood glucose been measured during the past 12 months? Please include measurements you have performed yourself as well as measurements by health care professionals.
Has a doctor ever examined your eyegrounds or have your eyegrounds been photographed?
Have you been diagnosed with changes in your eyegrounds caused by diabetes?
Have you received laser treatment of the eyegrounds because of diabetes?
Has increased albumin excretion been observed in your urine?
Have you been diagnosed with kidney insufficiency?
Has a part of your lower limb (toe, foot or leg) been amputated because of diabetes?
Do you have A chronic skin disease, e.g. psoriasis or atopic dermatitis?
What type of chronic skin disease is it?
Do you have A chronic illness or inflammation of the bowel, e.g. celiac disease, lactose intolerance or colitis (inflammation of the large intestine)?
What type of chronic illness on the bowel is it?
Do you have Cancer (malignant growth)?
Which cancer?
Do you have Benign tumours of the uterus, e.g. myomas?
Do you have Parkinson’s disease?
Have you had recurrent, severe (moderate or intense) headaches?
Do you have Bladder, urinary tract or a renal pelvis infection or bacteria in the urine?
How many infections have you had during the past 12 months?
Do you have Urinary incontinence, problems in controlling the bladder?
Do you have some other chronic illness, defect, trouble or injury diagnosed by a doctor?
Do you currently use medication because of it?
How many times have you seen a doctor because of it during the past 12 months?
And how many times have you seen a nurse or public health nurse because of it during the past 12 months?
Which year was it diagnosed for the first time?
Have you been hospitalised because of it?
Have you received physiotherapy or other rehabilitation because of it during the past 12 months?
Have you been operated because of it?