World Health Survey 2003
Wave 0

Ghana, 2003

Reference ID

GHA_2003_WHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

World Health Organization (WHO)

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Health

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Feb 13, 2013

Last modified

Dec 05, 2013

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family members (q0821)

Data file: WHS-Ghana_F2

Overview

Valid: 3929

Invalid: 230

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 611

End: 614

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Household Expenditure:
I would like to ask you more specific questions about how much your household spent on health services. When answering these questions, think about all of the times that any household member used a health service in the last 4 weeks. Please exclude costs to be reimbursed by insurance and any transportation costs.

In the last 12 months, which of the following financial sources did your household use to pay for any health expenditures?

Literal question

Family members or friends from outside the household.

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	615	15.7%
5	No	3314	84.3%
Sysmiss		230