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Household PulseSELFCAREHealth & health care › Personal healthdemographic

Do you have difficulty with self-care, such as washing all over or dressing? Select one.

Asked of: TBIRTH_YEAR<=2006

Do you have difficulty with self-care, such as washing all over or dressing?

Difficulty with self-care · Asked in 27 waves, 2022–2024 · 1,578,083 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses

Periods loaded: week46, week47, week48, week49, week50, week51, week52, week53, week54, week55, week56, week57, week58, week59, week60, week61, week62, week63, cycle01, cycle02, cycle03, cycle04, cycle05, cycle06, cycle07, cycle08, cycle09.

Percentages ofpeople who answered everyone asked

Over time

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Cannot do at all0%

Yes - a lot of difficulty1%

Yes - some difficulty7%

No - no difficulty92%

Shares in 2024

Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.

By group over time

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Age Sex Race & ethnicity Education Income Region

Cannot do at all

Yes - a lot of difficulty

Yes - some difficulty

No - no difficulty

18–29

Crosstab

Age Sex Race & ethnicity Education Income Region State

Wave

No - no difficultyYes - some difficultyYes - a lot of difficultyCannot do at all

Group		No - no difficulty	Yes - some difficulty	Yes - a lot of difficulty	Cannot do at all

Answers as the source codes them

No - no difficultyYes - some difficultyYes - a lot of difficultyCannot do at allSkipped (question seen but no category selected) (non-answer)

Waves

Poll	Field dates	Mode	Respondents	Responses
Household Pulse Survey, Cycle 09 (2024-08-20 to 2024-09-16) Source variable SELFCARE. Universe: TBIRTH_YEAR<=2006.	2024-08-20 to 2024-09-16	web	51,280	51,160
Household Pulse Survey, Cycle 08 (2024-07-23 to 2024-08-19) Source variable SELFCARE. Universe: TBIRTH_YEAR<=2006.	2024-07-23 to 2024-08-19	web	59,913	59,794
Household Pulse Survey, Cycle 07 (2024-06-25 to 2024-07-22) Source variable SELFCARE. Universe: TBIRTH_YEAR<=2006.	2024-06-25 to 2024-07-22	web	70,429	67,467
Household Pulse Survey, Cycle 06 (2024-05-28 to 2024-06-24) Source variable SELFCARE. Universe: TBIRTH_YEAR<=2006.	2024-05-28 to 2024-06-24	web	72,125	69,105
Household Pulse Survey, Cycle 05 (2024-04-30 to 2024-05-27) Source variable SELFCARE. Universe: TBIRTH_YEAR<=2006.	2024-04-30 to 2024-05-27	web	72,162	69,147
Household Pulse Survey, Cycle 04 (2024-04-02 to 2024-04-29) Source variable SELFCARE. Universe: TBIRTH_YEAR<=2006.	2024-04-02 to 2024-04-29	web	73,352

All respondents	92%	7%	1%	0%	51160	±0.9
AK	93%	7%	0%	0%	530	±7
AL	92%	7%	1%	0%	790	±5
AR	91%	8%	1%	0%	838	±5
AZ	90%	7%	2%	1%	1305	±4
CA	92%	7%	1%	0%	3305	±4
CO	92%	7%	1%	0%	1257	±4
CT	91%	7%	1%	1%	861	±5
DC	93%	6%	1%	–	599	±7
DE	91%	8%	1%	0%	534	±6
FL	92%	7%	1%	–	1697	±4
GA	90%	9%	1%	0%	1174	±5
HI	94%	6%	0%	–	538	±7
IA	94%	5%	1%	0%	811	±5
ID	88%	10%	2%	–	1075	±4
IL	94%	5%	1%	0%	1175	±4
IN	91%	8%	1%	0%	941	±4
KS	92%	7%	1%	–	1033	±4
KY	88%	9%	2%	0%	792	±5
LA	92%	7%	1%	0%	671	±5
MA	91%	7%	2%	–	1185	±4
MD	91%	8%	1%	–	1136	±4
ME	95%	4%	0%	–	588	±6
MI	89%	7%	3%	1%	1267	±4
MN	93%	5%	1%	0%	1052	±4
MO	93%	6%	1%	0%	932	±5
MS	91%	8%	1%	–	697	±5
MT	92%	7%	1%	1%	609	±6
NC	93%	6%	1%	0%	859	±5
ND	91%	9%	0%	0%	359	±7
NE	94%	6%	0%	0%	870	±5
NH	92%	6%	2%	0%	888	±6
NJ	93%	6%	0%	1%	906	±4
NM	91%	8%	1%	0%	1061	±5
NV	92%	7%	1%	0%	776	±5
NY	94%	5%	1%	–	890	±5
OH	90%	9%	1%	0%	916	±5
OK	89%	8%	3%	1%	872	±5
OR	90%	8%	2%	0%	1293	±4
PA	92%	7%	1%	0%	1216	±4
RI	93%	6%	1%	0%	506	±6
SC	90%	8%	1%	1%	845	±5
SD	90%	9%	1%	1%	542	±6
TN	91%	8%	1%	0%	985	±5
TX	91%	7%	1%	0%	2470	±4
UT	92%	7%	0%	–	1644	±4
VA	92%	7%	1%	0%	1371	±4
VT	91%	8%	1%	–	441	±8
WA	91%	7%	2%	0%	2105	±3
WI	95%	3%	1%	1%	880	±5
WV	89%	9%	1%	1%	666	±6
WY	84%	15%	0%	0%	407	±9