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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Whether having disabilities (B4_q7)
File: Block 4_Demographic and other particulars of household members

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 329360
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Whether the member of the household having any disability?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	No	268120	81.4%
2	Yes - single	53771	16.3%
3	Yes - multiple	7463	2.3%
9	Invalid	6	0.0%

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

Column 7: whether having disability?: Whether or not each member of the household has any one or more of the disabilities - mental, visual, hearing, speech and locomotor will be indicated in terms of codes in this column. A person may not have any disability and code 1 will be recorded for such persons.. Further, a persons having disability, may have one or more than one type of different disabilities under survey. Persons having only one type of disability will be considered as having 'single' disability and for such persons, the relevant code 2 will be recorded in column 7. Persons having more than one type of disability will be considered as having 'multiple' disability and code 3 will be recorded for such persons.