INDIA - Survey on Health Care July - June 1995-96, NSS 52nd Round

Reference ID

IND-NSSO-SHC-1995-v2.1

Year

1995 - 1996

Country

INDIA

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Organization - Ministry of Statistics Programme Implementation , Government of India

Sponsor(s)

Government Of India - GOI -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Whether visually disabled (DISABILITY_VISUAL)
File: Block 9

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 0
Invalid: 0

Definition

Visual disability : Loss or lack of ability to execute tasks requiring adequate visual acuity is considered as visual disability. Visually disabled, for the purpose of survey, include (a) those who do not have any light perception - both eyes taken together and (b) those who have light perception but cannot correctly count fingers of a hand (with spectacles/contact lenses for those who are normally using) from a distance of 3 metres (or 10 feet) in good daylight with both eyes open.

Questions and instructions

Pre question

Is the aged person suffering from any physical disability?

Literal question

Whether having disability : Visual

Categories

Value	Category
0	No response
1	Yes
2	No

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.