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

India, 2002
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch26-July2002-Dec2002
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Disability code (B4_q7)

Data file: Block 4_Demographic and other particulars of household members

Overview

Valid: 396943
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 70
End: 70
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

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%
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
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