World Health Survey 2003, Wave 0

Mexico, 2003

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Reference ID

MEX_2003_WHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

World Health Organization (WHO)

Collection(s)

WHO’s Multi-Country Studies Programmes

Metadata

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Oct 17, 2013

Last modified

Oct 17, 2013

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How long before being admitted to hospital (q7410)

Data file: WHS-Mexico_F5

Overview

Valid: 8443

Invalid: 30303

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 2424

End: 2427

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For your [child’s] last hospital stay, how long from the time you needed hospital care did you wait to be admitted to hospital?
- same day
- less than 1 week
- less than 1 month
- less than 3 months
- 3 months and more

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Same day	8042	95.3%
2	Less than a week	307	3.6%
3	Less than 1 month	53	0.6%
4	Less than 3 months	25	0.3%
5	3 months and more	16	0.2%

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

Stop reading further as soon as the respondent has selected one.
For this question, we want to know how long the respondent had to wait to be admitted to the hospital, once knowing that hospitalisation was needed.

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