World Health Survey 2003, Wave 0

Mexico, 2003

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MEX_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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How much care does this person need (q0572)

Data file: WHS-Mexico_F2

Overview

Valid: 1104

Invalid: 37642

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 260

End: 263

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How much care does this person need?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Needs help/ watching all the time (day and night)	473	42.8%
2	Cannot be without help/ watching or be left alone at home for more than an hour	125	11.3%
3	Can be left on his/her own at home for several hours but requires accompaniment when leaving home	240	21.7%
4	Needs some help at home and sometimes needs to be accompanied when leaving home	266	24.1%
Sysmiss		37642

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

1. Needs help / watching all the time (day and night)
2. Cannot be without help/ watching or be left alone at home for more than an hour.
3. Can be left on his/her own at home for several hours but requires accompaniment when leaving home.
4. Needs some help at home and sometimes needs to be accompanied when leaving home.

If there is more than 1 person needing care in the household, the respondent should be told to focus on the person needing the most care when answering this question.

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