India - Village Facilities Survey , July 2002-December 2002, NSS 58th Round

Reference ID

IND-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch3.1-VF-2002

Year

2002

Country

India

Producer(s)

NSSO - Ministry of Statistics and PI, Government of India

Sponsor(s)

Ministry of Statiistics and PI - MOSPI, Government of India -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Special school for blind (Bl4_q31)
File: Village_facility

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 4630
Invalid: 0

Definition

Special School for the Blind: This is an educational centre/ school/ institute/organisation where only blind children are enrolled and taught by teachers specially trained for dealing with the visually handicapped. (Such a school follows the same curriculum as prescribed for formal schools.) The school personnel include special educators, technicians and visiting doctors.

Questions and instructions

Universe

Distance from nearest facility- Special school for blind ?

Literal question

How far is facility from Special school for blind

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	within village	2	0.0%
2	outside village: less than 2 km	16	0.3%
3	2 to 5 km	43	0.9%
4	5 to 10 km	126	2.7%
5	10 km or more	4441	95.9%
9	NR	2	0.0%

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

distance should be coded as :
within village – 1; outside village: less than 2 km – 2, 2 to 5 km – 3,
5 to 10 km – 4, 10 km or more – 5