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

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Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Reason for non-enrollment (B6_q9)
File: Block 6_Particulars of enrolment of physically disabled of age 5-18 years

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 9759
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If the disabled member of the household did not get enrolled in a special school, then what were the reasons behind it?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
01	due to disability	3631	37.2%
02	school not known	1547	15.9%
03	difficulty in getting admission	74	0.8%
04	school far away	735	7.5%
05	expensive	480	4.9%
06	parents not interested	1431	14.7%
07	for participation in household economic activity	169	1.7%
08	for other economic reasons	453	4.6%
10	for attending domestic chores	53	0.5%
11	invalid	3	0.0%
99	other reasons	1183	12.1%

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

The reason for non-enrolment in a special school will be recorded in terms of codes in this column. The entry will be made for those disabled children who were never enrolled in an ordinary school and also in a special school, and those who were enrolled in an ordinary school but discontinued and subsequently never enrolled in a special school (i.e. for those with code 2 in col. 7). In case more than one reason is equally applicable, the code of the reason among the relevant ones, which appear first in the code list, will be recorded. The codes to be used are:

due to disability .....….…………... 01
school not known .....…………… 02
difficulty in getting admission......... 03
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