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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Where did you get care? (q7016)
File: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 4
Decimals: 2
Range: 1-3

Valid cases: 3093
Invalid: 845

Questions and instructions

Literal question

When you last needed health care, where did you get care?
- At a health care provider, excluding an overnight stay in hospital
- At a hospital where you stayed overnight
- At home

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	At a health care provider,	2559	82.7%
2	At a hospital where you stayed overnight	392	12.7%
3	At home	142	4.6%
Sysmiss		845

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

By health care provider, we mean any of the following types of professionals at a facility operated by the government, private sector, or religious or non-governmental groups:
- Medical doctor (including gynaecologist, psychiatrist and other specialists)
- Nurse
- Midwife
- Dentist
- Physiotherapist or chiropractor
- Traditional medicine practitioner
- Other