UPHD - Survey on Social, Health and Overall wellbeing of older people (50+ years)

KENYA, 2006 - 2010
Population Dynamics and Urbanization in Africa (PDAU)

African Population & Health Research Center,

CSV JSON

Any surgery on right arm (v1607a)

Data file: AllWavesCombined

Overview

vald 1226

invd 4665

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 1 - 9

Questions and instructions

Literal question

16.6 Did you have any surgery on your right arm, hand or wrist in the last 3 months OR arthritis or pain in your right hand or wrist?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	4	0.3%
2	No	358	29.2%
5	Missing	0	0%
7	Refused	0	0%
9	NA	864	70.5%
Sysmiss		4665

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

Grip Strength

We are now going to test the strength in your hands

Question post text

(1=YES; 2=NO;IF YES DO NOT TEST RIGHT HAND)

Interviewer instructions

FW: IF RESPONDENT HAS OBVIOUS PROBLEM WITH A HAND/ARM, SKIP THAT SITE. IF PROBLEMS WITH BOTH HANDS/ARMS, ANSWER YES TO Q16.6 AND Q16.7, THEN SKIP TO SUB-SECTION ON VERBAL RECA FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS IN THE MANUAL FOR MEASURING HAND STRENGTH. MAKE SURE YOU FIT THE DYNAMOMETER TO THE RESPONDENT'S HAND SIZE.

Description

Text

Any surgery on right arm

Universe

All DSS Residents 50 years and above