World Health Survey 2003, South Africa

South Africa, 2003

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Reference ID

zaf-who-whssa-2003-v01

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World Health Organization (WHO)

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Data Discovery Collection

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Nov 11, 2016

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Nov 11, 2016

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lost all of natural teeth (q6757)

Data file: WHS-SouthAfrica_F5

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 1961

End: 1964

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Have you lost all of your natural teeth?

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 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.

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