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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suffered bodily due to fall, burn, poisoning, . (q6806)

Data file: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

Valid: 3878

Invalid: 60

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 1985

End: 1988

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

In the past 12 months, have you suffered bodily injury that limited your everyday activities in any way? This could have been due to a fall, burn, poisoning, submersion in water, or by a firearm or sharp weapon, or an act of violence from another person?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	250	6.4%
5	No	3628	93.6%
Sysmiss		60

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

This question aims to identify individuals who had serious bodily injuries in the last 12 months of any cause except road traffic accidents. The idea is to determine whether the person experienced difficulty because of a physical injury in doing their day to day activities, such as household, work and school activities. Respondents should use their own definition of "limited in everyday activities" to answer this question. If the injury limited the respondent's everyday activities in any way, it would be considered as a
serious injury requiring medical attention. The interviewer should probe for the type and cause of the injury and record "yes" if it occurred in any incident of intentional or unintentional cause, such as from a fall, fire, poisoning, drowning, or from an act of violence or war. If the answer is no, Go to next section.

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