Demographic and Health Survey 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2011

Reference ID

CMR_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

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

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

Last modified

May 14, 2020

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Has difficulty hearing or is deaf (H_DISHEAR)

Data file: CMR2011-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 869

End: 870

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

612) Is there anyone in your household who is almost or completely deaf?

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

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 616)

RECORD THE NAME AND LINE NUMBER OF EACH PERSON WITH HEARING PROBLEMS. ASK 614 AND 615 OF THE 1ST PERSON, THEN THE 2ND PERSON, ETC.

(IF THERE ARE MORE THAN 3 PEOPLE, USE AN ADDITIONAL QUESTIONNAIRE)
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615) Does (NAME) have difficulty hearing or is (NAME) completely deaf?

PARTIAL HEARING LOSS 1
DEAF 2

Value	Category
00	No
10	Yes
11	Some difficulty
12	A lot of difficulty
13	Cannot hear at all
14	Yes, unknown level of difficulty
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

DISHEAR indicates whether the household member has difficulty hearing and, if so, the degree of difficulty.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
General disability Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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