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Eighth General Population and Housing Census, 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Suriname, 2012
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SUR_2012_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Cause of communicating disability (SR2012A_DISCSCOMM)

Data file: SUR2012_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 201
End: 201
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">G. Communicating / talking</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
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 communicating or talking.
Universe
Suriname 2012: Persons with a communicating disability [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

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