India - Survey of Disabled Persons, NSS 58th Round, Schedule 26, July 2002 - Dec 2002

Reference ID

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

Year

2002

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Aug 01, 2016

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Disability from birth (B5_q5)
File: Block 5_Particulars of physical disability of the disabled member

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 86745
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Whether the member of the household having the disability by birth?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	yes	32185	37.1%
2	no	54560	62.9%

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

Code 1 will be recorded if the particular type of disability was from birth and otherwise, code 2 will be recorded. Persons who have acquired disability during infancy (below 1 year of age) without known reasons, would also be considered to have disability 'from birth' and code 1 will be assigned.