TRANSPORTATION

Definition

Indicates the primary mode of motorized vehicular transportation, according to the best source of information (person with brain injury unless unavailable or unreliable).

Form

[ ] Form 1
[X] Form 2

Source

Form 2 - Interview, Mail-out (participant or proxy)

Details

Taxi, Uber and Lyft should be coded as ‘Public Transit’.

Electric scooters/E-bikes, as well as motorized wheelchairs should be coded as 1- Drives Vehicle.

Variables

Form Type

Variable

ID

Question

History

Form 2

TransModeF

783

What is your primary method of motorized transportation?

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Codes and Values

ID

Code

Description

783

1

Drives Vehicle

783

2

Rides with Someone Else

783

3

Public Transit

783

4

Special Bus or Van Service

783

81

Not Applicable: Variable not due this year ( Code no longer used; data now collected in all follow-up years )

783

82

Not Applicable: No motorized transportation

783

99

Unknown

History

Date

Description

2002-10-14

Added DEFINITION : “motorized” to variable label and to definition.

2002-10-14

Added CODE : “5 NA-no/negligible motorized transportation”.

2018-07-01

Added CODE : the code for "Not due this year" plus a statement that this code is no longer used.

2023-07-01

Added NOTE: Electric scooters/E-bikes, as well as motorized wheelchairs should be coded as 1- Drives Vehicle.