Definition
HCHHANYRECHOSP indicates whether a member of the household had a hospital stay during recent health care.
The information in HCHHANYRECHOSP is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2") when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis, and using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.