• Component Description
• Eligible Sample
• Interview Setting and Mode of Administration
• Quality Assurance & Quality Control
• Analytic Notes
• Codebook
  • SEQN - Respondent sequence number
  • PUQ100 - Products used in home to control insects
  • PUQ110 - Products used to kill weeds?

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

2011-2012 Data Documentation, Codebook, and Frequencies

Pesticide Use (PUQMEC_G)

Data File: PUQMEC_G.xpt

First Published: September 2013

Last Revised: NA

Note: Documentation updated to revise the proxy rule description.

Component Description

The Pesticide Use section (variable name prefix PUQ) provides survey participant level interview data on pesticide use in the home and lawn or garden during the past 7 days.

Eligible Sample

The questions in this section were asked of proxy respondents for children 6 and 7 years of age; and were asked of participants aged 8 years of and older.

Interview Setting and Mode of Administration

A trained interviewer administered these questions to the survey participants during the MEC interview and to proxy respondents for children 6 and 7 years old during the Dietary Recall.

Quality Assurance & Quality Control

The Pesticide Use questionnaire (PUQ) data were systematically reviewed for logical, processing, and data input errors on a periodic basis during the process of data collection.

The computer CAPI system had built-in consistency checks, online information screens that provided the interviewers with information about the terms used in the questionnaires, and hard and soft edit checks to reduce the number of keying entry errors. All of the data were reviewed by the NHANES field office staff for accuracy and completeness.

Analytic Notes

The Pesticide Use section was administered in the MEC interview for all participants aged 8 years and older. These questions were asked of proxy respondents for children 6 and 7 years old during the Dietary Recall. Two questions on pesticide use in the home and lawn or garden during the past 7 days were administered.

Although these data were collected as part of the household questionnaire, if they are merged with the MEC exam data, exam sample weights should be used for the analyses.

Please refer to the Analytic Guidelines and the on-line NHANES tutorial for further details on the use of sample weights and other analytic issues. The Analytic Guidelines are available on the NHANES website.

Codebook and Frequencies