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| India 2019-2021 Standard DHS survey [message #28687] |
Fri, 23 February 2024 05:00  |
UnseenDisability
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Registered: February 2024
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Hello everyone,
I would like to do research on disability, specifically hearing loss, which is included in the household characteristics section of the DHS Standard survey. In other DHS standard surveys in which disability questions are included, the variable is called "dhis4" and includes values that represent levels of hearing loss in household members. In the Indian 19-20 survey, this variable does not exist. There is four variables associated with hearing loss, and my understanding is that each one is for one household member other than the responder (only up to four were included - sh33a1a, sh33b1a, sh33c1a, and sh33d1a) and they is labeled as " person 01 (02,03,04):disablity - hearing " and the values are yes and no. I have searched for the actual survey in the country report, but it does not appear to be included.
Can anyone guide me as what this represents? What questions were asked and what constitutes a "yes"? I have already written to the two e-mail addresses on the country report for guidance, but have not received a response. I would be grateful for any guidance.
Thanks,
SA
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| Re: India 2019-2021 Standard DHS survey [message #28688 is a reply to message #28687] |
Fri, 23 February 2024 09:46  |
fred.arnold@icf.com
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Registered: May 2021
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You are correct that the information in NFHS-5 on disabilities does not follow the standard DHS practices. The NFHS-5 disability questions were decided on by the Government of India. You can find the NFHS-5 questionnaires in Volume 2 of the final report at here (https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR375/FR375_II.pdf). The relevant questions are in the Household Questionnaire (Questions 31-33). Question 31 asks whether any usual member of your household including yourself has any disability. Note that the respondent to the household questionnaire is included in that question. If there is one or more person with a disability, then Question 32 asks for the name and line number of each person with one of more disabilities. There are four lines in all, so if there are more than four usual residents of the household with a disability, only four persons are included. Finally, for each of the persons in Question 32, the questionnaire asks for each person with a disability (up to four persons), what type of disability the person has. The response categories are as follows:
HEARING A
SPEECH B
VISUAL C
MENTAL D
LOCOMOTOR E
OTHER F
For each person with a disability, one or more of the disabilities may be recorded. If code A is recorded, it means that the person has a hearing disability, but no information is requested about the seriousness of the hearing disability.
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| Re: India 2019-2021 Standard DHS survey [message #29449 is a reply to message #29443] |
Thu, 20 June 2024 11:36 |
Bridgette-DHS
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Registered: February 2013
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Following is a response from Senior DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:
The disability variables are attached to the household record in the HR file. Unfortunately, in the construction of the PR file for the NFHS-5, the disability variables were just copied onto each record in the PR file. They cannot be used in the current format. This issue came up in April and I prepared a Stata program (attached) to extract and reshape these variables from the HR file, so you can analyze them for individual household members. If you use this program, which is just a text file, you will need to change the paths. The resulting file can be merged back with the PR file so you can get the age, sex, etc., of the people with disabilities.
The cases in other DHS datasets are completely different, so you cannot MERGE the India data with the Nepal data, for example. However, you can compare the surveys.
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