We compare three major UK surveys, the British Household Panel Survey, Family Resources Survey and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, in terms of the picture that they give of the relationship between disability and receipt of the attendance allowance benefit. Using the different disability indicators that are available in each survey, we use a structural equation approach involving a latent concept of disability in which probabilities of receiving attendance allowance depend on disability. Despite major differences in design, once sample composition has been standardized through statistical matching, the surveys deliver similar results for the model of disability and receipt of attendance allowance. Provided that surveys offer a sufficiently wide range of disability indicators, the detail of disability measurement appears relatively unimportant.

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家庭调查是否对残疾福利目标给出了一致的看法？：对英国老年人口的多重调查潜在变量分析。

我们比较了英国的三项主要调查，即英国家庭小组调查、家庭资源调查和英国老龄化纵向研究，从它们所描绘的残疾与领取出勤津贴福利之间的关系的角度来看。利用每次调查中提供的不同残疾指标，我们使用涉及残疾潜在概念的结构方程方法，其中获得出勤津贴的概率取决于残疾程度。尽管设计上存在重大差异，但一旦通过统计匹配对样本构成进行标准化，这些调查就会为残疾模型和出勤津贴领取提供相似的结果。如果调查提供足够广泛的残疾指标，那么残疾测量的细节就显得相对不重要。