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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Aid / appliance advised (B5_q13)
File: Block 5_Particulars of physical disability of the disabled member

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 75464
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Whether aid/appliance has been advised and it has been acquired?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	yes : acquired	11385	15.1%
2	yes : not acquired	4470	5.9%
3	no	59609	79.0%

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

Whether or not a physically disabled member was advised for any aid/appliance for the disability is to be recorded under column 13 in terms of codes. The codes are:

yes:
acquired ………. 1
not acquired …… 2
no ………………… 3

In some cases aid/appliance are acquired without seeking advice/treatment. In such cases, it is to be considered as self-advice and code 1 may be recorded. Those who do not seek advice and also do not acquire aid/appliance will get code 3.