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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Q5011b: Medicines (q5011b)
File: GhanaINDData

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 12
Decimals: 0
Range: -8-0

Valid cases: 0
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Thinking about your last [hospital] stay, how much did you or your family/household members pay out-of-pocket for: Medicines

Categories

Value	Category
-8	DK
0	Free

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

Interviewer: write "0" if the service was free - If a person did not have medicines or tests, enter 99998 for “Not applicable, did not have”.

[use local currency]