No time limit was set when asking the respondents' last illness episode (likelihood), and four weeks was used as the consistent time reference for the recall of all types of health service utilization, including emergency services, hospital admissions, and primary care doctor or family doctor consultations for the monthly health services utilization rates.
When asked whether the respondents had ever come across a stroke campaign in Ghana, 86% (n = 596) responded in the negative, while 14% (n = 97) responded in the affirmative.
When asked whether respondents agreed or disagreed with the fact that malaria is a dangerous disease, 240 (54.2%) strongly agreed, 172 (38.9%) agreed, 17 (3.8%) were neutral, 9 (2%) disagreed while 5 (1.1%) strongly disagreed.
When asked, 26percentt of the respondents held their noses and pointed to Mrs. Whitman and James E. McGreevey.
They found that, when asked directly, respondents tended to report idealized responses reflecting cultural norms for politically correct responses.
Interestingly, when asked, many respondents were very confident about their answers, even though their response behaviour suggested otherwise.
When asked directly, respondents agreed that so-called 'rational suicides' might occur although there were different assertions regarding how common they are.
Similarly, when asked what respondents do most at home, 30% said that they chat on MXit – and 68 % indicated that they most often talk to family and friends.
The use of modern contraceptives was highly acceptable to the respondents (when asked whether the use of contraceptives was acceptable or not) and the combined data from the six zones showed that 87% stated that the contraceptives were acceptable.
When asked, 32% of respondents want the government to try to limit people's boozing by taxing alcohol more.
