World Health Survey 2003

Malaysia, 2003

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Reference ID

MYS_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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Mother tongue (q1000)

Data file: WHS-Malaysia_F5

Overview

Valid: 6022

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 17

End: 24

Width: 8

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Respondent’s Socio Demographic Characteristics
I would like to start by asking you some background questions before asking you questions on your health. This information is confidential and will only be used for research purposes.

Literal question

What is your mother tongue?

Categories

Value	Cases
1	3288	54.6%
2	1511	25.1%
3	433	7.2%
4	40	0.7%
5	55	0.9%
6	197	3.3%
7	44	0.7%
8	453	7.5%
BURMAIST	1	0%

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

Record respondent’s mother tongue. The mother tongue is the language one has learned first, provided it is a language that one can express oneself fully in, and/or voluntarily identifies with. If the respondent knows more than one such language record all named languages.

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