Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health 2007-2008

South Africa, 2007 - 2008

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ZAF_2007_SAGE_v01_M

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Professor Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya, Professor Karl F. Peltzer

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Q2104: Discomfort (q2104b_d)

Data file: SouthAfricaINDData

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 14

Range: -

Format:

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Question pretext

[Markus] has pain in his knees, elbows, wrists and fingers, and the pain is present almost all the time. It gets worse during the first half of the day. Although medication helps, he feels uncomfortable when moving around, holding and lifting things.

Literal question

Overall in the last 30 days, how much bodily discomfort did [Markus] have?

Categories

Value	Category
1	None
2	Mild
3	Moderate
4	Severe
5	Extreme
8	Don't know
9	Not applicable

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.

Question post text

1 None
2 Mild
3 Moderate
4 Severe
5 Extreme/Cannot do

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