Living Standards Survey IV 1998-1999 - World Bank SHIP Harmonized Dataset

Ghana, 1998 - 1999

Reference ID

GHA_1998_GLSS_v01_M_v01_A_SHIP

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)

Metadata

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Apr 25, 2019

Last modified

Apr 25, 2019

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lost all of natural teeth (q6757)

Data file: WHS-China_F5

Overview

Valid: 3988

Invalid: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Have you lost all of your natural teeth?

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
5	No
Sysmiss

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 question serves to identify people who are suffering from edentulism (who are missing all of their teeth), a particularly debilitating oral disease. If left untreated, edentulism can lead to the shrinking and loss of jawbone. Record a response of “yes” only if the respondent has lost all of their natural teeth, and not just some or most of them.