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World Health Survey 2003

Estonia, 2003
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EST_2003_WHS_v01_M
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World Health Organization (WHO)
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DDI/XML JSON
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Dec 12, 2013
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Mar 29, 2019
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  • WHS-Estonia_F7

wear glasses or contact lenses (q2070)

Data file: WHS-Estonia_F5

Overview

Valid: 1012
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 2
Start: 163
End: 166
Width: 4
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Health State Descriptions Time Begin
Now I would like to review different functions of your body. When answering these questions, I would like you to think about the last 30 days, taking both good and bad days into account. When I ask about difficulty, I would like you to consider how much difficulty you have had, on an average, in the past 30 days, while doing the activity in the way that you usually do it. By difficulty I mean requiring increased effort, discomfort or pain, slowness or changes in the way you do the activity. Please answer this question taking into account any assistance you have available.

Vision
Literal question
Do you wear glasses or contact lenses?
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
5 No
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
The purpose of this question is to know the use of an assistive device such as spectacles or contact lenses since for the following 2 questions the respondent would be asked to take this into account when reporting on the level of difficulty with vision.
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