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2015 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Sierra Leone, 2015
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Reference ID
SLE_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Statistics Sierra Leone (SLL), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
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Cause of main disability (SL2015A_DISCAUSE)

Data file: SLE2015_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 262
End: 263
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em"> All persons [Questions P01-P20]</span></p>

<p>[Section II was answered for all persons who selected living in occupied housing units in question I15]</p>

<p>Disability [Questions P15-P19]</p>

<p>P18. Cause of main disability</p>
<div class="i1">Answered only if the respondent answered yes to having a disability in P15.<br /><br />[] 1 Congenital (from birth)<br />[] 2 Disease/illness<br />[] 3 Transport Accident<br />[] 4 Occupational injury<br />[] 5 Other accident<br />[] 6 War<br />[] 7 Natural ageing process<br />[] 8 Other</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Congenital (from birth)
02 Disease or illness
03 Transport accident
04 Occupational injury
05 Other accident
06 War
07 Natural ageing process
08 Other
98 Unknown
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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="h2">Section 2: Population characteristics</span></p>

<p>Columns (P01) to (P20) -- These should provide particulars of all persons who slept in the household on census night. The questions therefore apply to all persons irrespective of age or sex, except P13 which applies to persons 5 years and above.</p>

<p><span class="em">P18 -- Cause of main disability</span>
<br />126. Ask for the cause of the main disability and record the appropriate code (refer to the code list). For example, 'congenital' is 1, 'disease/illness' is 2 etc.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the cause of the person's main disability.
Universe
Sierra Leone 2015: Persons with a disability [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Disability Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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