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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Dec 05, 2013

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lost all of natural teeth (q6757)

Data file: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

Valid: 3801

Invalid: 137

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 1957

End: 1960

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Have you lost all of your natural teeth?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	70	1.8%
5	No	3731	98.2%
Sysmiss		137

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

The question serves to identify people who are suffering from edentulism (who are missing all of their teeth), a particularly debilitating oral disease. If left untreated, edentulism can lead to the shrinking and loss of jawbone. Record a response of “yes” only if the respondent has lost all of their natural teeth, and not just some or most of them.

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