World Health Survey 2003
Wave 0

Ghana, 2003

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GHA_2003_WHS_v01_M

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World Health Organization (WHO)

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Feb 13, 2013

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when were bed nets treated (q0562)

Data file: WHS-Ghana_F2

Overview

Valid: 132

Invalid: 4027

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 215

End: 218

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The Household Questionnaire is to be administered to the "Household Informant", identified in Q0501.

Malaria Prevention: Use of (bed) nets

Were the bed-nets treated with insecticide, a product that kills insects?

Literal question

If Yes: When was the last time the bed-net was (re-)treated with this product?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	within last 6 months	90	68.2%
2	7-12 months	17	12.9%
3	more than 1 year ago	25	18.9%
8	Do not know	0	0%
Sysmiss		4027

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

Since insecticide is effective only for a certain period of time, it is important to know when the bed net was treated with this product last time. The interviewer should record in the appropriate box the time interval in days, weeks, months or years as reported by the respondent.

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