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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Reason for discontinuation (B6_q10)
File: Block 6_Particulars of enrolment of physically disabled of age 5-18 years

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 212
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If the disabled member of the household got enrolled in a special school but later discontinued it, then what were the reasons behind it?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
01	due to disability	36	17.0%
04	school far away	36	17.0%
05	expensive	16	7.5%
06	parents not interested	19	9.0%
07	for participation in household economic activity	3	1.4%
08	for other economic reasons	11	5.2%
10	for attending domestic chores	3	1.4%
11	invalid	6	2.8%
99	other reasons	82	38.7%

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 10: if code 2 in col. 8, reason for discontinuation in a special school: The reason for discontinuation from the special school will be recorded in terms of codes in this column. This information will be recorded for those who discontinued from a special school (i.e. for those with code 2 in col. 8). The codes are:

due to disability .....….…………... 01
school far away …………………. 04
expensive ……………………….. 05
parents not interested ……………. 06
for participation in household economic activity ………………. 07
for other economic reasons ……. 08
for attending domestic chores …. 10
other reasons …………………… 99

(Note that code 02 and 03 are not given)