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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Taken treatment (B5_q12)
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 disabled member of the household has taken treatment?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	yes: taken: consulting doctor	57882	66.7%
2	otherwise	3155	3.6%
3	yes: undergoing treatment: consulting doctor	6704	7.7%
4	otherwise	534	0.6%
5	attending special school	158	0.2%
6	no	18312	21.1%

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

Whether or not the disabled member has taken any treatment or undergoing treatment is to be recorded under this column. The codes are:

yes: taken: consulting doctor …….. 1
otherwise ..……….…… 2
yes: undergoing treatment: consulting doctor …….. 3
otherwise ..……….…… 4
attending special school ….. 5
no ………………………… 6

Code 1 or 2 will be applicable if treatment had been taken in the past. If the person is currently under treatment code 3 or 4 will be applicable. Any treatment taken from persons other than medical practitioners (of any stream) would be considered as “taken otherwise” and code 2 or 4 will be applicable. code 5 will be recorded for disabled person is currently attending special schools for the disabled irrespective of whether taking/taken treatment or not.