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Costa Rica, 2011
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CRI_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, IPUMS
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Disability, difficulty with walking (CR2011A_DISLOWER)

Data file: CRI2011_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 214
End: 214
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
12. Does [the respondent] have a permanent limitation?? (You can mark multiple options)</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Seeing, even with glasses or contacts on<br />[] 2 Hearing<br />[] 3 Speaking<br />[] 4 Walking or going up steps<br />[] 5 Using arms or hands<br />[] 6 Intellectually (retarded, Dow[name]'s syndrome, other)<br />[] 7 Mentally (bipolar, schizophrenic, other)<br />[] 8 None of the above</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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 12: Population with disability</span></p>

<p>12. Does [name] have a permanent limitation...? (You can mark multiple options)</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 seeing, even with glasses or contacts on<br />[] 2 hearing<br />[] 3 speaking<br />[] 4 walking or going up steps<br />[] 5 using arms or hands<br />[] 6 intellectually (retarded, Down's syndrome, other)<br />[] 7 mentally (bipolar, schizophrenic, other)<br />[] 8 none of the above</div><p>This question is asked of all the habitual residents of the household. In the case of the babies, it should be considered that they do not have permanent limitations if there is no medical opinion that indicates otherwise.</p>

<p>As can be observed in this question you can mark various responses that refer to the following permanent limitations.</p>

<p><span class="em">Walking or going up steps</span>: this includes the people that present permanent difficulties walking from one place to another, inside or outside the dwelling, or going up steps in a dwelling, buildings, or means of transportation. This excludes: the people with temporary injuries or burns that are found in rehabilitation and could recover.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the respondent difficulty walking.
Universe
Costa Rica 2011: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Disability Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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