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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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Created on
May 01, 2020
Last modified
May 14, 2020
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  • PAK2017-W.dat

Has difficulty seeing even if wearing glasses or contact lenses (H_DISSIGHTGC)

Data file: PAK2017-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 617
End: 618
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
27) I would like to know if (NAME) has difficulty seeing. Would you say that (NAME) has no difficulty seeing, some difficulty, a lot of difficulty, or cannot see at all?

NO DIFFICULTY SEEING 1
SOME DIFFICULTY 2
A LOT OF DIFFICULTY 3
CANNOT SEE AT ALL 4
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
00 No
10 Yes
11 Some difficulty seeing
12 A lot of difficulty seeing
13 Cannot see 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
DISSIGHTGC indicates whether the household member has difficulty seeing even if wearing glasses or contact lenses and, if so, the degree of difficulty.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General disability Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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