World Health Survey 2003

Latvia, 2003

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Reference ID

LVA_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

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Oct 17, 2013

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how many times saw health care professional (q6401)

Data file: WHS-Latvia_F5

Overview

Valid: 40

Invalid: 816

Minimum: 4

Maximum: 21

Mean: 11.45

Standard deviation: 4.326

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 1439

End: 1443

Width: 5

Range: 1 - 50

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How many times during your pregnancy with (NAME) did you see a health care professional?

Interviewer instructions

This question is only asked to women who received antenatal care for their last pregnancy in the last five years. The respondent may not remember exactly how many antenatal care visits she had. Precision here is not crucial, however the interviewer has try to get the best possible approximation. If the respondent reports a range of numbers, for example 8-10 visits, the interviewer has to probe and ask her to choose one number. Sometimes the respondent may give a frequency of visits rather than the total number, for example "every month", "once in every three weeks", etc. In this situation, the interviewer has to estimate the number visits from the reported frequency.

Description

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Questions to be asked to women of reproductive age (18-49 years) with a live birth in last 5 years only.

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