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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work or household activities (q2001)
File: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

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

Valid cases: 3878
Invalid: 60

Questions and instructions

Pre question

Health State Descriptions Time Begin
Overall Health
The first questions are about your overall health, including both your physical and your mental health.

Literal question

Overall in the last 30 days, how much difficulty did you have with work or household activities?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	None	2372	61.2%
2	Mild	703	18.1%
3	Moderate	562	14.5%
4	Severe	184	4.7%
5	Extreme	57	1.5%
Sysmiss		60

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

These are questions about difficulty in day to day activities because of the person’s physical and emotional health. These activities include household, work and school activities. By “difficulty” we mean the way activities are usually performed.