India - Survey of disabled persons, July 2002 - Dec 2002, NSS 58th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch26-July2002-Dec2002

Year

2002

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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No. of disabled members (B3_q7)
File: Blocks 1,3_Household characteristics

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-6

Valid cases: 70302
Invalid: 0

Definition

Disability:
A person with restrictions or lack of abilities to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being was treated as having disability. It excluded illness/injury of recent origin (morbidity) resulting into temporary loss of ability to see, hear, speak or move.

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How many members are disabled in the household?

Interviewer instructions

Item 7: no. of disabled members: This item will be filled-in after filling-in block 4. Whether or not each member of the sample household has any disability will be indicated in column 7 of block 4. The number of members listed in block 4 with any of codes 1 to 6 in column 7, will be recorded against this item.