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

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-47Rnd-Sch26-July1991-Dec1991

Year

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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If having speech disability (5 yrs & above) - type (code) (B5_q9)
File: Block 5_Particulars of physical disability of the disabled member

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 8163
Invalid: 0

Definition

Speech disability:
This referred to persons' inability to speak properly. Speech of a person was judged to be disordered if the person's speech was not understood by the listener. Persons with speech disability included those who could not speak, spoke only with limited words or those with loss of voice. It also included those whose speech was not understood due to defects in speech, such
as stammering, nasal voice, hoarse voice and discordant voice and articulation defects, etc.

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is the extent of speech disabilty of the member of the household?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	not reported	5	0.1%
1	can not speak	3463	42.4%
2	speaks only in single words	1155	14.1%
3	speaks unintelligibly	1347	16.5%
4	stammers	1382	16.9%
5	speakes with abnormal voice	521	6.4%
9	any other speech defects	290	3.6%

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.