Ghana - World Health Survey 2003, Wave 0

Reference ID

GHA_2003_WHS_v01_M

Year

2003

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

World Health Organization (WHO)

Sponsor(s)

World Health Organization - WHO -

Created on

Feb 13, 2013

Last modified

Dec 05, 2013

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How much care does this person need (q0572)
File: WHS-Ghana_F2

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 4
Decimals: 2
Range: 1-4

Valid cases: 104
Invalid: 4055

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How much care does this person need?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Needs help/ watching all the time (day and night)	24	23.1%
2	Cannot be without help/ watching or be left alone at home for more than an hour	18	17.3%
3	Can be left on his/her own at home for several hours but requires accompaniment when leaving home	35	33.7%
4	Needs some help at home and sometimes needs to be accompanied when leaving home	27	26.0%
Sysmiss		4055

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.

Interviewer instructions

1. Needs help / watching all the time (day and night)
2. Cannot be without help/ watching or be left alone at home for more than an hour.
3. Can be left on his/her own at home for several hours but requires accompaniment when leaving home.
4. Needs some help at home and sometimes needs to be accompanied when leaving home.

If there is more than 1 person needing care in the household, the respondent should be told to focus on the person needing the most care when answering this question.