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National Census of Housing and Population 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Bolivia, 2012
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BOL_2012_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning and Coordination, Republic of Bolivia, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Persons with disabilities in household (BO2012A_DISAB)

Data file: BOL2012_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 219
End: 219
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Chapter E. People with a permanent difficulty</span></p>

<p>22. Does anyone in this household have a permanent difficulty with any of the following?</p>
<div class="i1">Seeing, even if they use glasses or contact lenses<br />Hearing, even if they use a hearing aid?<br />Speaking, communicating, or conversing?<br />Walking or climbing stairs?</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No [Go to question 23]</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
9 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
<span class="h2">Chapter E. People with a permanent difficulty</span>
<br />This chapter aims to obtain information about whether there are people present in the dwelling who have permanent difficulty seeing, hearing, speaking, walking, or remembering. The first part of the question acts as a ''filter'' to find out if one or more people present in the dwelling has some permanent difficulty.</p>

<p><span class="pg">[p. 14]</span></p>

<p>If the answer is yes, ask the name of the person or of each of the people with some permanent difficulty, their age at their most recent birthday (writing 0 for those under one year of age), their sex, and the permanent difficulty.</p>

<p>If the answer is no, go to question 23, chapter F, of the census form.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether there are any persons with disabilities in the household.
Universe
Bolivia 2012: Private dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Other Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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