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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Ease with which family and friends could visit during hospital stay (q7431)
File: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

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

Valid cases: 857
Invalid: 3081

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For your [child’s] last hospital stay, how would you rate the ease of having family and friends visit you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Very good	178	20.8%
2	Good	512	59.7%
3	Moderate	148	17.3%
4	Bad	13	1.5%
5	Very bad	6	0.7%
Sysmiss		3081

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

The question asks the respondent to answer based on his knowledge of whether the hospital made it uncomfortable or difficult in any other way for him/her (or his/her child)
to have visitors.