Greater Eldoret Health and Development Survey, Wave 1, 2004

Kenya, 2004

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Reference ID

KEN_2004_GEHDS-W1_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

Producer(s)

Markus Goldstein and Harsha Thirumurthy

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Agricultural Surveys

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Has been living with any health problem for a long time (h67)

Data file: health

Overview

Valid: 32

Invalid: 4756

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 2

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

In addition to the illness or injury that you mentioned in the past 4 weeks, has [NAME] been living with any health problem for a long time? PROBE: For more than 6 months?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	15	46.9%
2	No	17	53.1%
Sysmiss		4756

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

Ask the respondent if the person has lived with any health problem for a long time. You should probe to make sure the respondent considers that last 6 months to one year. If the answer is “Yes”, skip to Section B - which will ask about these CHRONIC illnesses.

Question post text

If answer is 1 > Go to 2 in section B (hb01 - variable name in dataset).

Description

Universe

All household members.

Source of information

Primary female respondent

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