Assessing the linkages between socioeconomic status, perceived personal risk, and risk factors for cardiovascular and related non-communicable diseases in a population of slum dwellers in Nairobi, Kenya

KENYA, 2008 - 2009
Health and Well-Being (HaW)

African Population and Health Research Center

CSV JSON

Chances of geting heart disease (v1505)

Data file: CVDMain_data

Overview

vald 5468

invd 2

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 1 - 99

Questions and instructions

Literal question

15.5 Do you think your changes of getting heart disease like angina are ... very high, high, moderate, low or very low?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Very High	18	0.3%
2	High	114	2.1%
3	Moderate	659	12.1%
4	Low	1629	29.8%
5	Very low	1909	34.9%
6	Already have	12	0.2%
7	Once a year	0	0%
95	Missing	1	0%
97	Refused	1	0%
98	I Dont Know	1123	20.5%
99	NA	2	0%
Sysmiss		2

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 pretext

15.0 PERCEIVED PERSONAL RISK

Question post text

Very high...01;High...02;Moderate...03;Low...04;Very Low...05;Already have angina...06;I dont know...98

Description

Text

Self-rating of likelihood of suffering angina

Universe

All DSS Residents 50 years and above