Demographic and Health Survey 2017-2018 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 2017 - 2018

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Reference ID

PAK_2017_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS) [Pakistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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May 01, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Has difficulty speaking or is mute (H_DISMUTE)

Data file: PAK2017-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 619

End: 620

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

OTHER FUNCTIONAL DIFFICULTIES

31) I would like to know if (NAME) has difficulty communicating when using his/her usual language. Would you say that (NAME) has no difficulty understanding or being understood, some difficulty, a lot of difficulty, or cannot communicate at all?

NO DIFFICULTY COMMUNICATING 1
SOME DIFFICULTY 2
A LOT OF DIFFICULTY 3
CANNOT COMMUNICATE AT ALL 4
DON'T KNOW 8

Categories

Value	Category
00	No
10	Yes
11	Some difficulty speaking
12	A lot of difficulty speaking
13	Cannnot communicate at all
97	Don't know
98	Missing
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.

Description

Definition

DISMUTE indicates whether the household member has difficulty communicating when speaking and, if so, the degree of difficulty.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
General disability Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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