World Health Survey 2003

Malawi, 2003

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Reference ID

MWI_2003_WHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

World Health Organization (WHO)

Collection(s)

WHO’s Multi-Country Studies Programmes

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Oct 17, 2013

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work or household activities (q2001)

Data file: WHS-Malawi_F5

Overview

Valid: 5278

Invalid: 28

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 119

End: 122

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Health State Descriptions Time Begin
Overall Health
The first questions are about your overall health, including both your physical and your mental health.

Literal question

Overall in the last 30 days, how much difficulty did you have with work or household activities?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	None	3377	64%
2	Mild	963	18.2%
3	Moderate	508	9.6%
4	Severe	373	7.1%
5	Extreme	57	1.1%
Sysmiss		28

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

These are questions about difficulty in day to day activities because of the person’s physical and emotional health. These activities include household, work and school activities. By “difficulty” we mean the way activities are usually performed.

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