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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Details concerning events that led to injury- Sibling (q5205)
File: WHS-Ghana_F7

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-12

Valid cases: 174
Invalid: 24676

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Provide details of events that led to the
injury.
What was the mechanism or cause of injury?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Motor vehicle	35	20.1%
2	Pedestrian-vehicle crash	6	3.4%
3	Motorcycle	6	3.4%
4	Pedal cycle	0	0.0%
5	Fall	28	16.1%
6	Gunshot, firearm related	7	4.0%
7	Landmine / bomblast	0	0.0%
8	Stab / cut / pierce	18	10.3%
9	Fire / burn	4	2.3%
10	Poisoning	14	8.0%
11	Near drowning / drowning / submersion	13	7.5%
12	Other mechanism / cause of injury	43	24.7%
Sysmiss		24676

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

For each sibling death recorded in Section B-1, answer the following questions. Complete columns for all siblings.