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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Cough that lasted 3 weeks or longer (q6100)
File: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

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

Valid cases: 3907
Invalid: 31

Questions and instructions

Pre question

During the last 12 months, have you experienced any of the following…
For this set of questions, the interviewer must read out a series of symptoms and determine if the respondent had any of those symptoms in the last 12 months. The point of asking symptom-related questions is to screen those individuals who might have tuberculosis (TB). Because there could be a number of symptoms that characterise a given health condition, and because some symptoms may be common to different conditions, it is important that the interviewer probe for each symptom to see whether the respondent may have an active disease.

Literal question

During the last 12 months, have you experienced cough that lasted for 3 weeks or longer?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	167	4.3%
5	No	3740	95.7%
Sysmiss		31

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

Cough is a very common symptom which could be associated with many illnesses. However if the cough is persistent and lasts for more than 3 weeks without the signs of common cold, there is a chance that it might be cause by tuberculosis.