World Health Survey 2003
Wave 0

Ghana, 2003

Reference ID

GHA_2003_WHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

World Health Organization (WHO)

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Health

Metadata

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Feb 13, 2013

Last modified

Dec 05, 2013

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payment or reimbursement (q0819)

Data file: WHS-Ghana_F2

Overview

Valid: 3901

Invalid: 258

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 603

End: 606

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Household Expenditure:
I would like to ask you more specific questions about how much your household spent on health services. When answering these questions, think about all of the times that any household member used a health service in the last 4 weeks. Please exclude costs to be reimbursed by insurance and any transportation costs.

In the last 12 months, which of the following financial sources did your household use to pay for any health expenditures?

Literal question

Payment or reimbursement from a health insurance plan.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	20	0.5%
5	No	3881	99.5%
Sysmiss		258

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

Payment or reimbursement by health insurance. The amount reported here
should only include costs that were (1) billed to the individual or family and (2) subsequently paid or reimbursed by a health insurance organization. The value of services that the insurance organization provides in-kind or pays directly to providers without billing the individual or family should not be included.
If the respondent only answers with a total amount, record under “other”.

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