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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775141

Study Description
Data Description

Paralysis of a body part- Sibling (q5208)
File: WHS-Ghana_F7

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-5

Valid cases: 4028
Invalid: 20822

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Did the deceased experience paralysis of any
part of the body in the month preceding
death?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	61	1.5%
5	No	3967	98.5%
Sysmiss		20822

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.