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VIII National Population and Housing Census, 2002 - IPUMS Subset

Dominican Republic, 2002
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DOM_2002_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), IPUMS
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Origin of disability (DO2002A_DISORIG)

Data file: DOM2002_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 252
End: 253
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
36. What is the cause of these disabilities? </p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 From birth<br />[] 2 Illness<br />[] 3 Violence or abuse <br />[] 4 Motorcycle accident<br />[] 5 Other motor vehicle accident<br />[] 6 Other accident (excluding workplace) <br />[] 7 Workplace accident<br />[] 8 Old age <br />[] 9 Other cause <br />[] 10 Unknown</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Birth
02 Illness
03 Violence or abuse
04 Motorcycle accident
05 Other motor vehicle accident
06 Other accident (excluding workplace)
07 Workplace accident
08 Old age
09 Other origin
97 Respondent does not know
98 Undeclared
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
<span class="em">Question 36: What is the cause of this (these) disability(disabilities)? </span></p>

<p>Fill in the correct answer declared by the interviewee.
<br />If the person has two or more disabilities, fill in the most prominent/severe disability.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the origin of a person's disability.
Universe
Dominican Republic 2002: Persons with disabilities [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Disability Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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