World Health Survey 2003
Wave 0

Ghana, 2003

Reference ID

GHA_2003_WHS_v01_M

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World Health Organization (WHO)

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Feb 13, 2013

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HSV - Set B Q-8 (q3007_b)

Data file: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

Valid: 1957

Invalid: 1981

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 672

End: 675

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Health State Valuations
Descriptions:
The questions I am going to ask you now are about different states of health. I will present several different states, and I want you to try to imagine what it would be like to live in those states.
If you look at these cards you will see that each card describes one health state. Let me begin by reading each card out loud (READ EACH CARD AND HAND IT TO RESPONDENT). Now, for each state, I am going to ask you to describe what you imagine that state would be like in terms of different aspects of health.
Now please try to imagine the following health state: arthritis in both hands and wrists, causing major pain, stiffness, swelling and deformities.

Literal question

Overall how much of bodily aches and pains would a person in this state
have?

Value	Category	Cases
1	None	9	0.5%
2	Mild	55	2.8%
3	Moderate	259	13.2%
4	Severe	1075	54.9%
5	Extreme	559	28.6%
Sysmiss		1981