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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Disability code (B4_q7)
File: Block 4_Demographic and other particulars of household members

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 396943
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Whether the member of the household having any disability?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	yes: single: mental	9050	2.3%
2	yes: single: visual	9181	2.3%
3	yes: single: hearing	7485	1.9%
4	yes: single: speech	4032	1.0%
5	yes: single: locomotor	37004	9.3%
6	multiple	9227	2.3%
7	no	320964	80.9%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

Column 7: whether having disability?: Whether or not each member of the household has any one or more of the disabilities - mental, visual, hearing, speech and locomotor will be indicated in terms of codes in this column. A person may or may not have any disability. Further, a persons having disability, may have one or more than one type of the five different disabilities under survey. Persons having only one type of disability will be considered as having 'single' disability and for such persons, one of the relevant codes 1 to 5 will be recorded in column 7. Persons having more than one type of disability will be considered as having 'multiple' disability and code 6 will be recorded for such persons. Further, persons having two or more of the locomotor disabilities, namely, paralysis, deformity of limb, loss of limb, dysfunction of joints of limb and others, will also be considered as having 'multiple' disability and code 6 will be recorded for them as well.
The codes to be used are:

yes:
single:
mental ……………… 1
visual ……................. 2
hearing …………….. 3
speech ……………... 4
locomotor …. ……… 5
multiple …………………. 6
no ……………………....…... 7