India - Survey of Disabled Persons: NSS 47th Round, Schedule 26, July 1991 - December 1991 

MoSPI-NSS
Reference ID DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-47Rnd-Sch26-July1991-Dec1991
Year 0
Country India
Producer(s) National Sample Survey Office
Sponsor(s) M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -
Collection(s)
National Sample Survey
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Cause of visual disability (B5_q6)
File: Block 5_Particulars of physical disability of the disabled member
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2
Valid cases: 69450
Invalid: 0
Definition
Visual disability:
By visual disability, it was meant, loss or lack of ability to execute tasks requiring adequate visual acuity. For the survey, visually disabled included (a) those who did not have any light perception - both eyes taken together and (b) those who had light perception but could not correctly count fingers of hand (with spectacles/contact lenses if he/she used spectacles/contact lenses) from a distance of 3 metres (or 10 feet) in good day light with both eyes open. Night blindness was not considered as visual disability.
Questions and instructions
Literal question
What is the cause of visual disabilty of the member of the household?
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
00 not reported 55263 79.6%
01 sore eyes first month of life 261 0.4%
02 sore eyes after one month 114 0.2%
03 severe diarrhoea before the age of six years 142 0.2%
04 cataract 3103 4.5%
05 glaucoma 444 0.6%
06 corneal opacity 231 0.3%
07 other eye diseases 1732 2.5%
08 small pox 372 0.5%
10 burns 53 0.1%
11 injury other than burns 462 0.7%
12 medical/surgical intervention 306 0.4%
13 old age 4428 6.4%
14 other reasons 928 1.3%
15 not known 1611 2.3%
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.

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