World Health Survey 2003
Wave 0

Ghana, 2003

Reference ID

GHA_2003_WHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

World Health Organization (WHO)

Collections

Health

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Feb 13, 2013

Last modified

Dec 05, 2013

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R-Vignette - Set D Q-6 (q7506d)

Data file: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

Valid: 613

Invalid: 3325

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 2960

End: 2963

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

I am now going to read you stories about people's experiences with health care services. I wanted you to think about these people's experiences as if they were your own. Once I have finished reading each story, I will ask you to rate what happened in th estory as very good, good, moderate, bad or very bad.

Use in vignettes country specific female/male first names to match sex of the respondent (with exceptions specified in the "Guide to Administration and Question by Question Specifications").

When [Joseph] was in hospital he could have no visitors nor could he receive any presents from friends or relatives. The hospital had no telephones and he
could not get any news from outside.

Literal question

For [Joseph’s] last hospital stay, how would you rate his experience of
staying in contact with the outside world when he was in hospital?

Value	Category	Cases
1	Very good	4	0.7%
2	Good	4	0.7%
3	Moderate	23	3.8%
4	Bad	165	26.9%
5	Very bad	417	68%
Sysmiss		3325