Question post text
FOR PERSONS 3YRS AND ABOVE
Interviewer instructions
The household's welfare suffers whenever a member is unable to engage in his/her normal activities.
This question is meant to capture those persons who are (or were recently) sick or injured, and therefore unable to engage in their normal activities or work (housework, farm work, tending livestock, schooling e.t.c)
Here the interviewer will determine the number of work or school days missed by the sick or injured person, in the previous four weeks (number of days as defined by the respondent-not the interviewer).
The interviewer should determine what the person's main activity normally is (i.e.,work, school, or caring for the family), and finally, whether the illness or injury prevented the person from performing that activity.
f the illness was minor enough not to prevent the person from working (or going to school, or caring for the family, etc), then the answer would be ZERO days.
Some respondents may not have any work (elderly retired person), in this case code 99. However, most people do some sort of work (not limited to wage work or school).