Disability Definitional Changes (Census 2001-Census 2011)

In Seeing

  • One eyed persons were treated as disabled at Census 2001. At the Census 2011 such persons have not been treated as disabled in seeing.
  • At the Census 2011 enumerators were asked to apply a simple test to ascertain blurred vision. At Census 2001 no such instructions were given.

In Hearing

  • Persons using hearing aid have been treated as disabled at Census 2011. They were not treated as disabled at the Census 2001.
  • Persons having problem in hearing through one year although the other ear is functioning normally was considered having hearing disability in census 2001. but in Census 2011, ....
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