World Health Survey 2003
Ghana, 2003
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unusual circumstances (q9013)
Data file: WHS-Ghana_F5
Overview
Valid:
2919
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Start:
3240
End:
3319
Width:
80
Format:
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Literal question
Any unusual circumstances or happenings during the interview:
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 0 | |
| 1 | |
| 2 | |
| 3 | |
| A NEIGHBOUR CAME TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING | |
| A LOT OF DISTRACTIONS | |
| A LOT OF INTERRUPTION FROM CUSTOMERS | |
| A MAN CAME AND SAID THAT WE ARE DISTURBING | |
| A SHORT BREAK TO ALLOW RESPONENT OT EASE HIMSELF | |
| A SNAKE WAS KILLED ABOUT 2 METERS AWAY FROM POINT OF INTERVIEW | |
| ASKED ME TO COME NEXT DAY, SHE WAS TIRED | |
| AT THE BEGINNING SHE WAS AFRAID AND ASKED HOW I HAD HER NAME | |
| ATTENDED TO HE GRAND CHILDRED | |
| BEREAVEMENT IN THE VILLAGE - MOURNING IN THE VILLAGE DISRUPTING PROCEEDINGS | |
| CALIB (BABY) WAS DISTURBING | |
| CARING FOR CHILDREN DURING INTERVIEW | |
| CLIENT REFUSED INTERVIEW | |
| CO - OPERATION WAS POOR | |
| COBRA SNAKE KILLED 5 METERES AWAY | |
| COMPLAINED ABOUT HAVING TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AGAIN | |
| COOKING INTERUPTION | |
| COOKING PALMNUT OIL SO GETS UP OCCASSIONALY TO CHECK ON IT | |
| COOKING WHIE ANSWERINR QUESTIONS | |
| COULD NOT ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS | |
| COULD NOT STAND TO BE WEIGED | |
| DOES NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT HIS SIBLINGS | |
| ELECTRICITY WAS NOT AVAILABLE HENCE USED A LANTHERN AND TOUCH LIGHT | |
| EXCLUSIVELY BREAST FEEDING | |
| EXPRESSED SO MUCH DISSACTISFACTION ABOUT HIS HEALTH STATUS | |
| FEW INTERRUPTIONS HERE AND THERE | |
| FEW INTERRUPTION | |
| GETS UP OFTEN TO ATTEND OTHER BUSINESS | |
| GOOD | |
| GOT UP A FEW TIMES | |
| GREAT STORM WHILE INTERVIEING | |
| HAD LOTS OF INTERFERANCES FROM FRIENDS AND CHILDREN | |
| HAD SOME TROUBLES TRYING TO GET RESPONDENT | |
| HAD TO BATH HER GRAND DAUGHTER, COOK AND GET READY TO TRAVEL | |
| HAD TO FOLLOW HIM TO HIS PEN | |
| HAD TO FOLLOW RESPONDENT TO ANOTHER LOCATION FOR INTERVIEW | |
| HAD TO GO AND ATTEND TO THE HEAD OF STATE ON HIS ARRIVAL TO THE OFFICE | |
| HAD TO STOP SOMETIMES TO ISSUE INSTRUCTIONS | |
| HAS HEARING PROBLEM | |
| HE BOAST ABOUT HIS BLACK POWER | |
| HE COMPLAINED ABOUT THE DURATION AND THE SIZE OF THE BOOKLET | |
| HE GOT UP OCCASSIONALLY TO ATTEND TO PEOPLE | |
| HE READ SOME OF THE QUESTIONS HIMSELF AND MADE SURE HE GOT THE EXACT ANSWER | |
| HE STOOD FROM HIS SEAT MOST OFTEN | |
| HE WAS BEING DISTURBED BY HIS SISTER TO COME AND DO SOMETHING FOR HER | |
| HE WAS CALLED IN THREE OCCASSIONS TO TALK TO OTHERS | |
| HE WAS DOZZING DURING THE LATER PART OF THE INTERVIEW | |
| HE WAS FEELING RESTLESS BECAUSE HIS FRIEND WERE WAITING FOR HIM TO ATTEND SOME G | |
| HE WAS FEELING SLEEPY AFTER TAKING HIS BREAKFAST | |
| HEAVY RAIN WHICH INTERRUPTED INTERVIEW | |
| HER STEP DAUGHTER CAME IN TO INTERRUPTE | |
| HER CHILDREN KEPT MOVING AROUND | |
| HER DAUGHTER CAME TO DISTURB HER BRIEFLY | |
| HIS UNDERSTANDING IS VERY LOW | |
| HIS YOUNGER CHILD INTERRUPTED FOR A WHILE | |
| HUSBAND AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE WANTED TO BE AROUND. | |
| HUSBAND PRESENT AT THAT TIME | |
| HUSBAND PRESENT DURING INTERVIEW BUT DID NOT CONTRIBUTE | |
| HUSBAND PRESENT DURING PART OF INTERVIEW | |
| HUSBAND SAT IN THE END | |
| HUSBAND WAS NOT HAPPY WITH THE INTERVIEW | |
| I COULD NOT TAKE HER WEIGHT BECAUSE SHE COULD NOT STAND | |
| I HAD TO STOP AND WAIT FOR 30 MINS BEFORE HE ALLOWED ME TO CONTINUE | |
| I WAS ASSUALTED BY THE WIFE VERBALLY AND PHYSICALLY. | |
| ILL-SHORTING OF BREATH | |
| INFORMANT WAS TIPSY | |
| INORMANT ALMOST REFUSED INTERVIE | |
| INTERMITENT INTERRUPTONS BY FAMILY MEMBERS | |
| INTERPRETER INFLUENCED THE RESPONSES | |
| INTERPTIONS BY CUSTOMERS | |
| INTERRUPTION BY FRIENDS AND HER OWN WASHING | |
| INTERRUPTION FROM THE CHILDREN | |
| INTERRUPTION HERE AND THERE | |
| INTERRUPTION OF INTERVIEW BY VISITORS | |
| INTERRUPTIONS HERE AND THERE DURING INTERVIEW | |
| INTERRUPTIONS BY CHILDREN | |
| INTERRUPTIONS BY FAMILY MEMBERS | |
| INTERRUPTIONS BY FRIENDS OF RESPONDENT | |
| INTERRUPTIONS BY RELATIVES | |
| INTERRUPTIONS FROM FRIENDS | |
| INTERRUPTIONS FROM TE YOUNGEST CHILD | |
| INTERRUPTIONS FROM THE YOUNGER CHILD | |
| INTERUPTION BY RESPONDENTS | |
| INTERUPTION FROM CHILDREN | |
| INTERUPTION FROM HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS | |
| INTERUPTIONS BY GRAND CHILDREN | |
| INTERVIEW HAD TO BE DONE ONLY IN THE EVENINGS | |
| INTERVIEW HAS TO BE STOPED FOR RESPONDENT TO ATTEND TO HER CUSTOMES | |
| INTERVIEW INTERRUPTED BY FRIENDS WHO WANTED TO KNOW PURPOSE OF INTERVIEW | |
| INTERVIEW TO BE STOPPED TO ALLOW RESPONDENT ATTEND FUNERAL | |
| INTERVIEW TOOK TWO DAYS | |
| INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED SMOOTHLY | |
| INTERVIEW WAS DONE UNDER A DIM FLASH SINCE NO PROPER LIGHT IN THIS VILLAGE | |
| INTERVIEWD IN PRESENCE OF PARENT EXCEPT Q6600 TO 6608 | |
| INTERVIEWED THROUGH AN INTERPRETOR | |
| INVITED ME FOR THEIR SUPER BUT I REFUSE | |
| ISSIFU MAHAMA DEAD, WIFE NOW HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD | |
| IT WAS RAINING | |
| IT WAS RAINING HEAVILY | |
| IT WAS RAINING WHEN THE INERVIEW WAS BEING CONDUCTED | |
| KEEPS COMPLAINING ABOUT HER HEALTH | |
| KEPT GETTING UP | |
| KEPT SMILING ALL TIME | |
| LANGUAGE BARRIER - RESPONDENT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND TWI MUCH | |
| LANGUAGE BARRIER - TRANSLATOR WAS CALLED TO HELP | |
| LOOKS OLD AND SICK, CAN'T GET MONEY TO GOT TO HOSPITAL | |
| LOTS OF INTERFERENCE AT THE WORK PLACE | |
| LOVE | |
| MAKING SALES DURING INTERVIEW | |
| MENDING NETS WILE ANSWERING QUESTIONS | |
| MIDLY INTOXICATED | |
| MINOR INTERRUPTIONS | |
| MINOR INTERRUPTIONS BECAUSE OF 2WKS OF BABY | |
| N | |
| NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOURS RAISED VOLUME OF RADIO | |
| NI | |
| NIL | |
| NILL | |
| NL | |
| NO | |
| NO UNUSUAL | |
| NO UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS | |
| NO INCIDENT | |
| NO INTERRUPTION | |
| NO UNSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES | |
| NO UNSUAL HAPPENING | |
| NO UNSUAL HAPPENINGS | |
| NO UNSUAUAL HAPPENINGS | |
| NO UNUSAL HAPPENINFS | |
| NO UNUSAL HAPPENING | |
| NO UNUSAL HAPPENINGS | |
| NO UNUSAUAL CIRCUMSTANCES | |
| NO UNUSUAL | |
| NO UNUSUAL APPENING | |
| NO UNUSUAL APPENINGS | |
| NO UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES | |
| NO UNUSUAL HAPENINGS | |
| NO UNUSUAL HAPPEINGS | |
| NO UNUSUAL HAPPENED | |
| NO UNUSUAL HAPPENIN | |
| NO UNUSUAL HAPPENING | |
| NO UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS | |
| NO UNUSUAL HAPPIENINGS | |
| NO UNUSUUAL HAPPENING | |
| NO USUAL HAPPENINGS | |
| NON | |
| NONE | |
| NONE QUITE RESPONSE | |
| NONE VERY CO-OPERATIVE | |
| NONE' | |
| NONR | |
| NOONE | |
| NOTHING HAPPEN | |
| OCCASIONAL INTERRUPTIONS | |
| OCCASSIONAL INTERRUPTION BY HOUSE MEMBERS | |
| OFTEN STANDS UP TO SPIT | |
| ONE OF THE RESPONDENT'S SIBLINGS HAD CONCLUSION | |
| OTHER HSEHOLD MEMBERS KEPT INTRUDING | |
| OTHER MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW WHAT SHE SAYS | |
| OTHER MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE INTERFERRED IN THE INTERVIEW | |
| OTHER RELATIVES WERE AROUND AND THEY INFLURENCED THE RESPONDENT | |
| PEOPLE COME TO BUY FROM HER | |
| RAINED VERY HEAVILY | |
| RECEIVING VISITORS. THIS INTERRUPTED A LITTLE | |
| REFUSAL BY A HOUSEHOLD MEMBER (SON) | |
| REFUSED Q8014 - 8015 | |
| REFUSED TO ANSWER Q8014-8015 | |
| REFUSED TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS | |
| RELATIONS AND FRIEND WERE INTERUPTING THE INTERVIEW | |
| RELATIVES VISITED SEVERAL TIMES | |
| RESPONDEENT HAD TO BREAK INTERVIEW FOR WORK | |
| RESPONDENT | |
| RESPONDENT DID NOT HAVE TIME BECAUSE HE IS THE LIMAN | |
| RESPONDENT FINDS IT DIFFICULT TO TALK | |
| RESPONDENT HAD TO ATTEND HER KIDS DURING INTERVIEW ON 3 OCCASSIONS | |
| RESPONDENT HAD TO ATTEND TO A NUMBER OF CALLS | |
| RESPONDENT HAD TO ATTEND TO HER CRYING BABY | |
| RESPONDENT HAD TO GO AND LISTERN TO A MESSAGE FOR 3 MINUTES | |
| RESPONDENT HAD TO SEE A FRIEND IN NEXT SURBUB | |
| RESPONDENT HAD TO SERVE CUSTOMERS BUYING DRINK MANY TIMES | |
| RESPONDENT INTERUPTEDD ON SOME OCCASSIONS | |
| RESPONDENT IS A BARBER SO HAD TO OCCASSIONALLY ATTEND TO CUSTOMERS | |
| RESPONDENT IS S MOSLEM SO GOES TO PRAY OCCASSIONALY | |
| RESPONDENT IS VERY WEAK | |
| RESPONDENT LOOKS TIRED | |
| RESPONDENT MIXING HER DOUGH DURING INTERVIEW | |
| RESPONDENT NOT ATTENTATIVE; DISCONTINUED SEVERAL TIMES | |
| RESPONDENT SEEM NOT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS WANTED | |
| RESPONDENT TRIED TO HURRY THE INTERVIEW | |
| RESPONDENT VERY ILL; HAD TO STOP / PAUSE INTERVIEW MANY TIMES | |
| RESPONDENT VERY PATHETIC ABOUT HIS STATE | |
| RESPONDENT WAS A BIT TIPSY | |
| RESPONDENT WAS COOKING AT THE SAME TIME | |
| RESPONDENT WAS FAIRLY CO - OPERATIVE | |
| RESPONDENT WAS HAVING HIS HAIR CUT SO TOOK TIME TO GET SETTLED | |
| RESPONDENT WAS INITIALLY PESUADED BY A COMMUNITY TO COPERATIVE, BUT HE ABANDONED | |
| RESPONDENT WAS TIPSY DURING THE INTERVIEW | |
| RESPONDENT WAS UNCOOPERATIVE AT A POINT DURING THE INTERVIEW | |
| RESPONDENT WAS VERY SICK AND PALE | |
| RESPONDENT WEPT BRIEFLY WHEN ASKED QUESTION SADNESS. | |
| SCARED ME OF A VERY BIG SNAKE SHE SAW | |
| SELLING AT HER STORE - POOR CONCENTRATION | |
| SELLS SUGAR SO GETS UP OCCASSIONALY TO SERVE CUSTOMERS | |
| SERVED CUSTOMERS WITH FUFU AT THE CHOP BAR IN BETWEEN INTERVIEW | |
| SHE DID NOT GIVE ME A SEAT I WENT FOR ONE MYSELF | |
| SHE DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE AGE DIFFERENCE | |
| SHE FAILED TO PROVIDE ME LIGHT TO SEE | |
| SHE FREQUENTLY ATTENDS TO CUSTOMERS | |
| SHE GAVE ME BANKU TO EAT BUT I REFUSE | |
| SHE GOT UP SEVERAL TIME TO ATTEND TO CUSTOMERS | |
| SHE INVITED ME FOR LUNCH BUT I REFUSE | |
| SHE TALKS TOO MUCH WITH LOTS OF COMPLAINS | |
| SHE WAS AFRAID AND WAS COMPLANING OF THE TIME SHE SPENT WITH ME | |
| SHE WAS AFRAID. SHE SAID I WAS SENT TO INVESTIGATE THOSE HAVING AIDS | |
| SHE WAS LAUGHING AT MOST OF THE QUESTIONS | |
| SHE WAS RELAXED IN ANSWERWING THE QUESIONS | |
| SHE WAS RELUNCTANT IN ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS | |
| SHE WAS SCARED AND REMAINED QUIET THROUGHOUT THE INTERVIEW | |
| SHE WAS SELLING AND HAVE TO GET UP MOST OF THE TIME | |
| SO MUCH DISTRCTIONS AND INTERRUPTIONS | |
| SOME IN TERERENCES FROM HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS | |
| SOME INHABITANTS CAME IN TO INQUIRE WHY THEY WERE NOT SELECTED FOR THE INTERVIEW | |
| SOME INTERFERENCE | |
| SOME INTERFERENCE SINCE INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED AT THE WORK PLACE | |
| SOMETIMES CHATTERED WITH OTHERS | |
| SOMETIMES DOSED OFF | |
| STOPPED INTERVIEW MIDWAY AND WENT TO INTERVIEW EKUA DURUWA WO AS ON HER WAY TO C | |
| TENSED INTERVIEW, RESPODENT IN HURRY TO ATTEND TO WORK | |
| THE DAUGHTER WAS CRYING THAT I WAS COMING TO ARREST THE MOTHER AS I WAS INTERVIE | |
| THE FAMILY MEMBERS CAME OVER TO ASK SO MANY QUESTIONS | |
| THE FLIES DISTURBED US SO MUCH FROM HER FARM | |
| THE GRANDCHILD ANSWERED MOST OF THE QUESTION | |
| THE INTERVIEW HAD TO BE SUSPENDED TO ALLOW THE RESPONDENT ATTEND TO SOME HSEHOLD | |
| THE OLDMAN VINANGO, COULD NOT GRANT ME THE INTERVIEW BECAUSE OF UNSTABLE MENT | |
| THE RESPONDENT HAD A VISITOR WHO TOOK ABOUT 30 MINUTES OF THE INTERVIEW TIME | |
| THE RESPONDENT IS SSS HOUSE MASTER AND STUDENTS WERE IN AND OUT WITH THEIR PROB | |
| THE RESPONDENT STOPS, GO AND CHAT FOR SOMETIME BEFORE CONTINUES | |
| THERE WAS A BREAK FOR 6 HOURS | |
| THERE WAS INTEROLERANCE FROM THEM, THE HUSBAND | |
| THERE WERE A LOT OF INTERUPTIONS DURING THE INTERVIEW | |
| THERE WEWE INTRUDER AT LATTER STAGE | |
| THI SMY RESPONDENT HAS MENTAL PROBLEM AND TALKS TOO MUCH DURING THE INTERVIEW | |
| THIS RESPONDENT WAS VERY DIFFICULT | |
| TORRENTIAL RAINFALL FOR NAMELY ONE HOUR AND DISTURBANCE BY AN ALCOHOL | |
| TORRENTIAL RAINFALL THROUGHTOUT INTERVIEW | |
| TRESPONDENT COMPLAINING OF BEING TIRED DURING INTERVIEW. | |
| TROUBLING BY CHILD | |
| URINATING VERY FREQUENT | |
| VERY CO - COPERATIVE | |
| VERY CO - OPERATIVE | |
| VERY CO -OPERATIVE | |
| VERY SAD WITH THE PROBLEM AND AS IF HE HAS GIVEN UP WITH NATURE. ''I NEED MY SIG | |
| WALKED MORE THAN 10KM TO RESPONDENT | |
| WAS BEHAVING LIKE A CHILD SO, I EMPLOYED A RELATIVE TO ASSIST ME | |
| WAS CONTACTED AFTER 15:00 GMT | |
| WAS INTERRUPTED FOR MOST OF THE TIME BY WEEPING CHILD | |
| WAS RAINING VERY HEAVILY | |
| WAS VERY CO - OPERATIVE | |
| WAS WAS COUGHING THROUGH THE INTERVIEW AND HAD VISITORS WHO DISTURBED HIM | |
| WAS WASHING HENCE FREQUENT BREAKS | |
| WASTED A LOT OF TIME IN COMING TO GRANT ME THE INTERVIEW, HE SAID HE HAD NO TIM | |
| WE WERE DISTURBED BY MOSQUITOES SINCE WE WERE OUTSIDE | |
| WENT TO FARM ANDCAME NACK AFTER 15:00 GMT | |
| WEPT IN THE COURSE OF THE INTERVIEW | |
| WEPT WHEN MENTIONING HER SIBLINGS | |
| WILL NOT TALK TO ME IF HER HUSBAND WAS NOT AROUND | |
| WORKING INTEMITENTLY ON HER DRYING COCOA | |
| YES | |
| YES, TWO WOMEN WERE FIGHTING |
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
To be filled in by the interviewer at the end of the interview