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Population and Housing Census 1984 - IPUMS Subset

Ethiopia, 1984
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ETH_1984_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistical Agency, Minnesota Population Center
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Disability status (ET1984A_0413)

Data file: ETH1984-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 189
End: 190
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Disability status
28. Is [person] disabled? If yes, state type of disability.

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Categories
Value Category
0 Not disabled
1 Full blind
2 One eye blind
3 Two ears deaf
4 One ear blind
5 Deaf and mute
6 Deaf, mute, and blind
7 One leg amputated below knee
8 One leg amputated above knee
9 Two legs amputated below knee
10 Two legs amputated above knee
11 Both arms and legs amputated
12 One arm amputated below elbow
13 One arm amputated above elbow
14 Two arms amputated below elbow
15 Two arms amputated above elbow
16 Limp or having only one leg
17 Limp or having no legs
18 Mental sickness or madness
19 Paralyzed in one leg
20 Paralyzed in both legs
21 Paralyzed in one arm
22 Paralyzed in both arms
23 Complete paralysis in both arms and legs
24 Paralyzed in one arm and one leg
25 Leprosy
26 Epilepsy
27 Multiple disability
28 Other
98 Unknown
99 NIU (not in universe)
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 28 - Disability Status: Is [the respondent] disabled? If yes, state type of disability.

A person having physical or mental impairment or defect of a body part is said to be disabled. Generally speaking a disabled person is one who is limited in terms of performing social and economic functions fully and is unable to perform fully or partly the functions normal people can perform because his/her body part is impaired, injured or damaged. Each member of the household will be asked about his/her disability status and the response will be entered in column 28.

Some people are not happy when asked directly "Are you disabled?" Hence care has to be taken when posing this question to respondents. Instead of asking directly that the respondent is disabled, it is better to ask friendly and indirectly if the person has some kind of health problem, such as sight and hearing problems, difficulty of mobility due to problems on extremities of the body, etc. and try to understand the situation.

A person may have multiple disability conditions. Each household member has to be asked about his/her disability condition and identify the type among those listed, together with the corresponding codes 00 - 27, below and record the type in the space provided and its code in card columns 51-52.

List of Disability Types and Codes

Code: Disability Type

00 = Not Disabled
01 = Full blind
02 = One eye blind
03 = Two ears deaf
04 = One ear blind
05 = Deaf and Mute
06 = Deaf, Mute and Blind
07 = One leg amputated below knee
08 = One leg amputated above knee
09 = Two legs amputated below knee
10 = Two legs amputated above knee
11 = Both arms and legs amputated
12 = One arm amputated below elbow
13 = One arm amputated above elbow
14 = Two arms amputated below elbow
15 = Two arms amputated above elbow
16 = Limp/having only one leg/
17 = Limp/Having no leg/
18 = Mental sickness /Madness/
19 = Paralyzed /One leg/
20 = Paralyzed /Both legs/
21 = Paralyzed /One arm/
22 = Paralyzed /Both arms/
23 = Complete paralysis /Both arms and legs/
24 = paralyzed /One arm and one leg/
25 = Leprosy
26 = Epilepsy
27 = Multiple disability
28 = Other /Specify/

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's disability status.
Universe
Resident household members

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Disability Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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