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Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health 2007-2008
Wave 1

Ghana, 2007 - 2008
Reference ID
GHA_2007_SAGE_v01_M
Producer(s)
Professor R. Biritwum
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Health Demography
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Feb 13, 2013
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Q0817: 12mo voluntary health insurance (q0817)

Data file: GhanaHHData

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 12
Range: -8 - 0
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
I know these questions may be difficult to answer - try to give us the best estimate of expenses. Now I want you to focus on household expenses over the last 12 months. These are expenses that may be more periodic or "big purchases". I would like to ask how much money was spent by all household members for the following items in the last 12 months

In the last 12 months, how much did your household spend on:
Literal question
Voluntary health insurance premiums (including, community health insurance schemes)?**
Categories
Value Category
-8 DK
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.
Question post text
8 don't know

Others

Notes
* Examples of Mandatory include: ESIS, CGHS, RHS, DMS, ECHS, MREG, MREP, OHIE
** Examples of Voluntary include: CHIS-Group Mediclaim Policy, BPL and SEWA Schemes, Public Sector (GICI, NICL, NIACL, OICL, UICL)-Mediclaim, Jan Arogya, Jeevan Surakhya. Private Sector (Tata-AIG, ICICI-Lombard, Bajaj-Allianz, Reliance General, IFFCO Tokia, Royal Sundaram).
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