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Demographic and Health Survey 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2011
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CMR_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie de la Planification et de l’Aménagement du Territoire, Ministère de la Santé Publique [Cameroon] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Has difficulty seeing or blind (H_DISSIGHT)

Data file: CMR2011-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 871
End: 872
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
608) Is anyone in your household blind or nearly blind?

IF YES: Can you tell me the name of these people?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 612)

RECORD THE NAME AND LINE NUMBER OF EACH PERSON WITH VISION PROBLEMS. ASK 610 AND 611 OF THE 1ST PERSON, THEN THE 2ND, ETC.

(IF THERE ARE MORE THAN 3 PEOPLE, USE AN ADDITIONAL QUESTIONNAIRE)
Categories
Value Category
00 No
10 Yes
11 Partial blindness
12 Cannot see at all
13 A lot of difficulty with sight
14 Yes, unknown level of difficulty
97 Don't know
98 Missing
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.

Description

Definition
DISSIGHT indicates whether the household member has difficulty seeing.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General disability Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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