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Eighth General Population and Housing Census, 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Suriname, 2012
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Reference ID
SUR_2012_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
General Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Cause of seeing disability (SR2012A_DISCSSIGHT)

Data file: SUR2012_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 195
End: 195
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">Personal module</span></p>

<p><span class="h2">All persons (health)</span>
<br />[Questions P21a to P23 were asked of all persons about their health.]</p>

<p>P21b. What causes this impairment?</p>
<div class="i1">Enter the relevant code for each of the impairments listed under P21a:</div><div class="i1">A. Seeing (even when using glasses)</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Congenital<br />[] 2 Illness<br />[] 3 Traffic accident<br />[] 4 Other accident<br />[] 5 Other cause<br />[] 7 Don't know<br />[] 9 No response</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Congenital
2 Illness
3 Traffic accident
4 Other accident
5 Other cause
8 Unknown
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the cause of the person's disability or impairment with seeing.
Universe
Suriname 2012: Persons with a seeing disability [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

concept

Concept
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