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

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Jan 16, 2021

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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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