Ghana - Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 1998, Round 3

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-DHS-1998-v2.0

Year

1998

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GoG - Financial Assistance
United States Agency for International Development - USAID - Financial Assistance

Metadata

Documentation in PDF

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Feb 20, 2009

Last modified

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Unmet need (v624)
File: REC61

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 0-9
Invalid: 99

Valid cases: 4821
Invalid: 22
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 9

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Never had sex	536	11.1%
1	Unmet need to space	832	17.3%
2	Unmet need to limit	423	8.8%
3	Using to space	506	10.5%
4	Using to limit	308	6.4%
5	Spacing failure	0	0.0%
6	Limiting failure	0	0.0%
7	Desire birth < 2 yrs	1027	21.3%
8	No sex, want to wait	540	11.2%
9	Infecund, menopausal	649	13.5%

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.