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

Reference ID

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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Cause of speech disability (B5_q10)
File: Block 5_Particulars of physical disability of the disabled member

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 69449
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 cause of speech disabilty of the member of the household?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
00	not reported	61243	88.2%
01	hearing impairment	579	0.8%
02	voice disorder	774	1.1%
03	cleft palate	248	0.4%
04	paralysis	467	0.7%
05	mental illness/ retardation	576	0.8%
06	other illness	642	0.9%
10	burns	19	0.0%
11	injury other than burns	109	0.2%
12	medical/surgical intervention	61	0.1%
13	old age	61	0.1%
14	other reasons	1016	1.5%
15	not known	3654	5.3%

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.