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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Study Description
Data Description

Back Pain (q6007)
File: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 4
Decimals: 2
Range: 1-5

Valid cases: 3893
Invalid: 45

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Have you experienced back pain (including disc problems) during the last 30 days?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	864	22.2%
5	No	3029	77.8%
Sysmiss		45

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

The intention of this question is to identify people who have back pain that could be related either to osteoarthirits or other problems such as trauma and disc displacement in the spine. This question should be asked to everyone.
If no, go to Q6009.