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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Health

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Feb 13, 2013

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Dec 05, 2013

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Overnight stay in hospital (q7200)

Data file: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

Valid: 3885

Invalid: 53

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 2188

End: 2191

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Over the last 5 years, was there ever a time you stayed overnight in a hospital or other type of long term care facility for your own health care?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes - a hospital	636	16.4%
2	Yes - long term care facility	30	0.8%
5	No	3219	82.9%
Sysmiss		53

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 asks people about staying overnight for their own medical needs. If they stayed overnight when visiting someone in hospital or because a child of theirs was in hospital they should answer NO to this question.

If Yes, Go to Q7400

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