Literal question
For your [child’s] last hospital stay, how long from the time you needed hospital care did you wait to be admitted to hospital?
- same day
- less than 1 week
- less than 1 month
- less than 3 months
- 3 months and more
Interviewer instructions
Stop reading further as soon as the respondent has selected one.
For this question, we want to know how long the respondent had to wait to be admitted to the hospital, once knowing that hospitalisation was needed.
