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

India Survey of disabled persons, July 2002 - Dec 2002

NSS 58th Round

Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) carried out the first country wide comprehensive survey of physically disabled persons during the 36th round survey (July - Decem­ber, 1981). The next survey on the subject was carried out after a period of ten years in NSS 47th round (July - December, 1991). In NSS 36th and 47th round surveys, information was collected on three types of physical disabilities - visual, communication and loco motor - along with the cause of disabil­ity, aid/appliance ac­quired by the disabled, general and vocational educational level of the disabled etc. In addition, data on developmental milestones and behavioural pattern of all children of age 5-14 years, regardless of whether they were physically disabled or not, were collected.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE) made a request for conducting a survey on disability in order to meet the data needs for evolving specific strategies and interventions during the 10th Five Year Plan. The need for a detailed survey on disability was strongly felt by MSJE since its data requirement included not only the number of disabled persons, but also the socio-economic characteristics of the disabled persons such as their age structure, literacy, vocational training, employment, causative factors of disability, age at the onset of disability etc. It was decided that:

(i) The survey of disabled persons will also cover persons with mental disability apart from the physically disabled persons since the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE) also requested for information on mentally disabled persons. The decision to include mental disability in the survey has been taken on the basis of a pre-test of the questions on mental disability, both for the listing and detailed schedules, carried out in the four cities of Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Delhi.

(ii) The information for different types of disabilities has been collected for persons of all age-groups.

ID Number DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch26-July2002-Dec2002

The schedule on Survey of Disabled Persons (Schedule 26) consists of the following 9 blocks:

Block 0: descriptive identification of sample house­hold

Block 1: identification of sample household

Block 2: particulars of field operation

Block 3: household characteristics

Block 4: demographic and other particulars of household members

Block 5: particulars of disability of the disabled member

Block 6: particulars of enrolment of disa­bled persons of age 5-18 years

Block 7: remarks by investigator

Block 8: comments by supervisory officer(s)

The identification particulars of the sample village/block and the sample household in which the survey schedule have been can­vassed are to be recorded in blocks 0 & 1.

Block 2 is meant for recording the particulars of field operations.

Certain characteristics of the sample household, such as, size, social-group, principal occupation, etc., meant to be used as classificatory variables have been recorded in block 3.

The demographic particulars like age, sex and marital status, of all the normally resident members of the sample household and the particulars of degree of disability, blood relationship between parents, living arrangement, gener­al education, etc. of all disabled members have been recorded in block 4.

Block 5 is meant for recording for each disabled member the detailed particulars of disability, such as, type of disability, degree of each type of disability, cause of disability, age at onset of disability, type of aid/appliance acquired etc.

The information as to whether or not a disabled child in the age-group 5-18 years was ever enrolled in a ordinary school/special school, whether the child is continuing in that school or not, reason for non-enrolment/discontinuation, etc., have been recorded in block 6.

Any relevant remarks of the investigator will be recorded in block 7.

The comments by the supervisory officer(s) in block 8.

The survey covered the whole of the Indian Union except (i) Leh and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir, (ii) interior villages of Nagaland situated beyond five kilometres of the bus route and (iii) villages in Andaman and Nicobar Islands which remain inaccessible throughout the year.

The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Computer Centre	MOSPI, CC	M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation	Documentation of the study

2012-06-03 Version 1.0 (June 2012)

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch26-July2002-Dec2002