Interviewer instructions
This question will be asked of all members. As this is sensitive question, you have to probe carefully so as not to offend the respondent or any other member of the household. You may then find out if any member of the household is suffering from any physical and mental disability. For persons who do not suffer from any disability, put dash (-) under this question.
Disability of a person is as of date of the Census Enumeration. It is assumed that a person can have one or more disabilities. Two boxes have been provided under each category viz; “since birth” and “after birth”. Therefore, if a person suffers from two or more disabilities, you should enter the codes only for two major disabilities.
For example, if a person has disabilities of seeing, speaking and hearing “since birth”, enter only two major disabilities in the boxes under “since birth”. However, if a person has only one disability which was since birth, enter the code in the first box. Similarly, the same procedure should be followed for “after birth”. In case of one disability since birth and another disability after birth, the first boxes in the respective columns should be filled up.
This refers to disabilities suffered by a person from the time of birth.
