Third General Census of Population and Housing 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005

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Reference ID

CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

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

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Disability (CM2005A_0486)

Data file: CMR2005-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 251

End: 252

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

16. Chronic disease, handicap
Has the person any chronic disease? _ _
Does the person have any predominant handicap? _ _ _

See code list

Categories

Value	Category
0	No handicap
1	Deaf
2	Mute
3	Deaf and mute
4	Blind
5	Blind and deaf
6	Blind and mute
7	Leper
8	Upper limb diability
9	Lower limb disability
10	Mental deficiency
11	Albino
12	Other handicap
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

16. Chronic illness/dominant handicap

b- Handicap
A handicap is the disadvantage that a person endures due to a disability or an infirmity which prevents him from fulfilling completely or partially a task that could normally be done by a person similar to him in age, sex, and different cultural factors.

One is considered handicapped if they need the assistance of specific equipment. As such, a handicapped person is one does not have complete physical or mental autonomy.

Here is a list of basic handicaps that the 3rd RGPH has retained:

Basic terms Code
No handicap 00
Deaf 01
Mute 02
Blind 04
Leprous 08
Upper limbs disabled 16
Lower limbs disabled 32
Mental illness 64
Albino 128
Other handicap 256

-Ask the following question:
Q. Does the surveyed person have a/any handicap/s?

NB: If the handicap is clearly visible, mark it and go on to the following question.

-Mark after the vertical line the handicap code or codes, on the dotted line corresponding to the order number of the surveyed person.

[Examples omitted]

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the type of disability a person may have.

Universe

Residents of the household

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Disability Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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