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

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Feb 20, 2009

Last modified

Mar 12, 2016

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Data Description

Data File: REC97

Cases	14492
Variable(s)	23
Producer	Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Missing Data	Prior to 2008, missing data and not applicable data were left as blank. These values are not differentiated. The current policy is to identify the missing data as follows: -a coded value would be composed of 9s such that the entire length of the field is filled. For example a code of' '999' would be used for a missing field of three characters. -not applicable or skipped variables are left blank
Processing Checks	All files have been checked for the following: 1. All variables have been clearly defined and labelled 2. All categories (value labels) have been clearly defined 3. All cases have unique identification (no duplicates) 4. The frequencies of expected respondents checked with the actual section and inconsistencies noted. 5. Skip patterns have been verified 6. Structure edits have been performed

Name	Label	Question
hhid	Case Identification

caseid	Case Identification

idx97	Index to pregnancy history

p215	Single or Multiple Birth

p216	Born alive/dead or lost pregnancy

p217	Did baby cry/move/breath

p219	Sex of child

p220m	Month of birth

p220y	Year of birth

p221	Child is still alive

p222	Current age of child

p223	Child living with respondent

p224	Age at death

p225m	Month pregnancy ended

p225y	Year pregnancy ended

p226	Duration of pregnancy

p227	Duration between this and previous pregnancy

p228	Pregnancy in between

p220c	Date of birth of child or termination of pregancy (CMC)

p220f	Date flag for Q220C

p224c	Age at death months (imputed)

p224f	Date flag for Q224C

bidx97	Index to birth history