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2008 National Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Liberia, 2008
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LBR_2008_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Type of disability (LR2008A_DISTYPE)

Data file: LBR2008_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 214
End: 215
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">P15-17. Disability</span></p>

<p><span class="em">P15. Does [the respondent] have any form of disability?</span><div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No -- Skip to P18</div><span class="em">P16. Type of disability?</span>
<br />____
Categories
Value Category
01 Limited use of leg(s)
02 Loss of leg(s)
03 Limited use of arm(s)
04 Loss of arm(s)
05 Hearing difficulty
06 Unable to hear (deaf)
07 Sight difficulty
08 Loss of sight (blindness)
09 Speech impairment
10 Unable to speak (mute)
11 Mental retardation
12 Mental illness (strange behaviour)
13 Deaf and dumb
14 Other multiple disabilities
15 Others
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
This variable indicates the person's kind of disability.
Universe
Liberia 2008: Persons with a disability [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
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