World Health Survey 2003

Sri Lanka, 2003

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LKA_2003_WHS_v01_M

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World Health Organization (WHO)

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WHO’s Multi-Country Studies Programmes

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Oct 17, 2013

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lost all of natural teeth (q6757)

Data file: WHS-SriLanka_F5

Overview

Valid: 6153

Invalid: 579

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 1923

End: 1926

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	332	5.4%
5	No	5821	94.6%
Sysmiss		579

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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