Title: Some statistical aspects of children with disabilities in Assam, India

Authors: Jumi Kalita

Addresses: Department of Statistics, L.C. Bharali College, 781011 Guwahati, India

Abstract: Analysis of data plays a very important role in describing a data set from various angles of interest. It digs out different characteristics intrinsic in the data set. This paper analyses the occurrences of disability in children for gender-wise distribution, rural-urban distribution, and probes any probable relationship of mothers' age with occurrence of disability among newborns. The influence of the parameters like birth-cry, birth-weight, mother's health during pregnancy and severe health problem of the children within a short period after the birth in determining the disability types are analysed through multinomial logistic regression. Analysis of data relating to children with disability may be useful in predicting disability and taking precautionary measures.

Keywords: disability; chi-square test; multinomial logistic regression; odd ratio; autistic; mentally challenged; cerebral palsy; learning disability; delayed speech and language; birth condition; baby's health problem; health problem during pregnancy; India.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISDC.2018.092558

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Design and Computing, 2018 Vol.2 No.1, pp.76 - 87

Received: 07 Dec 2016
Accepted: 24 Nov 2017
Published online: 24 Jun 2018 *