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

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Whether received any aid/help (B4_q13)
File: Block 4_Demographic and other particulars of household members

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 75894
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Whether the member has received any aid/help?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	yes from government for: education	622	0.8%
2	vocational training	125	0.2%
3	aid/appliance	1876	2.5%
4	corrective surgery	405	0.5%
5	govt./semi-govt. job	296	0.4%
6	other govt. aid / help	4089	5.4%
7	any aid / help other than govt.	1115	1.5%
8	no	67366	88.8%

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 the disabled members of the household have received any aid/help in the past from government (govt.) or any other organisation / agency will be ascertained and the appropriate code will be recorded in this column. One of the codes 1 to 6 will be recorded if the aid/help is received from a govt./semi-govt./local body. If the aid is received from any non-governmental agency, code 7 will be recorded. The codes to be used are:

yes:
from government for:
education ………………… 1
vocational training ………. 2
aid/appliance ……………. 3
corrective surgery ……….. 4
govt./semi-govt. job …….. 5
other govt. aid / help …….. 6
any aid / help other than govt… 7
no …………………………… 8

Code 1 for education will include educational aids like tape recorder, Braille material, shorthand machine etc. apart from scholarship or admission benefits or other financial aid.