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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How long before being admitted to hospital (q7410)
File: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

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

Valid cases: 841
Invalid: 3097
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 5

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For your [child’s] last hospital stay, how long from the time you needed hospital care did you wait to be admitted to hospital?
- same day
- less than 1 week
- less than 1 month
- less than 3 months
- 3 months and more

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Same day	641	76.2%
2	Less than a week	164	19.5%
3	Less than 1 month	25	3.0%
4	Less than 3 months	2	0.2%
5	3 months and more	9	1.1%

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

Stop reading further as soon as the respondent has selected one.
For this question, we want to know how long the respondent had to wait to be admitted to the hospital, once knowing that hospitalisation was needed.