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Third General Census of Population and Housing 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005
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CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, Minnesota Population Center
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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.


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Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of disability a person may have.
Universe
Residents of the household

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Disability Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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