Ghana - Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health 2007-2008, Wave 1

Reference ID

GHA_2007_SAGE_v01_M

Year

2007 - 2008

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Professor R. Biritwum - Department of Community Health, Ghana Medical School

Sponsor(s)

US National Institute on Aging - NIA - Financial support through Interagency Agreements (OGHA 04034785; YA1323-08-CN-0020; Y1-AG-1005-01) and Grants (R01-AG034479; IR21-AG034263-0182)

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Feb 13, 2013

Last modified

Dec 05, 2013

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Q0506a: Water for handwashing (q0506a)
File: GhanaHHData

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 32
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-98

Valid cases: 0
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is the main source of water used by your household for other purposes such as handwashing?

(Use pictorials in Appendix A0500A)

Post question

1 Piped water into dwelling ………………è Q508
2 Piped water to yard/plot ………………è Q508
3 Public tap/standpipe
4 Tubewell/borehole
5 Protected dug well
6 Unprotected dug well
7 Protected spring
8 Unprotected spring
9 Rainwater collection
10 Bottled water
11 Cart with small tank/drum
12 Tanker-truck
13 Surface water (river, dam, lake, pond, stream, canal, irrigation channels)
87 Other, specify:

Categories

Value	Category
1	Piped private
2	Piped to yard/plot
3	Public standpipe
4	Tubewell/borehole
5	Protected dug well
6	Unprotected dug well
7	Protected spring
8	Unprotected spring
9	Rainwater collection
10	Bottled water
11	Small scale vendor
12	Tanker-truck/lorry
13	Surface water (river, lake, etc)
87	Other, specify
88	Don't know
98	Not applicable

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.