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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Staying in contact with outside world during stay in hospital (q7432)
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 your experience of staying in contact with the outside world when you were in hospital?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Very good	143	16.7%
2	Good	463	54.0%
3	Moderate	184	21.5%
4	Bad	44	5.1%
5	Very bad	23	2.7%
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

This questions asks the respondent to think more generally about his/her (or his /her child’s) ability to keep in contact with social activities outside of the hospital, e.g. work, news of the outside world (e.g. through newspapers), religious groups (if that is important to the respondent).