World Health Survey 2003, Wave 0

India, 2003

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IND_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-India_F2

Overview

Valid: 732

Invalid: 9951

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 266

End: 269

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)	316	43.2%
2	Cannot be without help/ watching or be left alone at home for more than an hour	58	7.9%
3	Can be left on his/her own at home for several hours but requires accompaniment when leaving home	146	19.9%
4	Needs some help at home and sometimes needs to be accompanied when leaving home	212	29%
Sysmiss		9951

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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