Disability Statistics:India

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Disability StatisticsIndia

• 5th Annual Meeting of Washington Group
• 21-23 September,2005
• Rio de Janeiro

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Sources of Data

• Disability Survey of National Sample Survey,2002
• Estimated number of disabled persons 18.5
  million

• Population Census,2001
• Number of disabled persons 21.9 million

Note The number of disabled persons is about 2
of the total population of the country.
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What is Disability?

• Mental Disability
• Mental Retardation,
• Mental Illness
• Physical Disability
• Blindness
• Low Vision
• Hearing Disability
• Speech Disability
• Locomotor Disability

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Global Position Disability Status
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Major issueAdoption of ICF

• Under ICF, Disability serves as an umbrella term
  for
• Activity Limitation, and
• Participation restriction or impairments
• These are associated with Body Functions and Body
• Structure
• Activity Execution of a task or action by an
• individual
• Participation Involvement in life situations

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• Body Functions are the physiological functions
  including
• Psychological functions
• Body structures are anatomical parts of the body
  such as organs, limbs and their components.
• There is a need to develop a set of definitions
  for the census and surveys which are consistent
  with the international definitions.

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UNESCAP-WHO FIELD TESTING SURVEY

• The field testing survey was conducted in one
  District
• with 1000 schedules having been canvassed for
  test 1 ,i.e.,
• sensitivity specificity testing.
• Training of the investigators was absolutely
  necessary as
• the investigators are usually conversant with
  the NSS surveys
• their mindset had to be reset for canvassing
  the ICF
• framework schedule .
• This training was imparted by officers of CSO in
  the presence
• of the consultant from ABS ,and representative
  of Ministry of
• Social Justice and Empowerment National
  Institute
• of Hearing Handicapped.

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Experiences From This Survey

• There were 68 questions in the schedule, it was
  considered to be lengthy. The respondents were
  not usually willing to give adequate time for
  completing the schedule.
• There was a problem on the question regarding
  the sexual activities specifically when asked by
  a male interviewer to a female respondent
  vice-versa.

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Experiences From This Survey

• There was a problem in asking this question to
  the unmarried,widows/widowers separated
  persons.
• In the rural areas , the female respondents tend
  to suggest to get the information from their
  husbands.

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Experiences From This Survey

• Most of the respondents were curious to know why
  they were being interviewed.
• Majority of the respondents reacted, I am quite
  healthy. Why are you asking unnecessary
  questions?
• Literate respondents were cooperative during the
  interview .

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Experiences From This Survey

• It was difficult to interview the illiterate
  semi-literate persons, most of time was spent to
  make them understand the questions.
• Female respondents were reluctant to respond,
  they were insisting the presence of male members.

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Experiences From This Survey

• Retired persons were found to be very
  cooperative during the interview.
• Persons who were not healthy (having some kind
  of health problems) took interest in responding
  to the questions.

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The data collected through this field testing
survey for study 1 (specificity sensitivity
testing),study 2(test retest reliability) study
3( cognitive tests) have been made available to
WHO for analysis and providing the results . A
technical advisory committee constituted by the
CSO is also currently engaged in suitably
redefining various disability terms so that these
could be easily understood by the interviewers
the informants in NSS surveys in the census.
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Thank You!