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: MREC11

Cases	1546
Variable(s)	24
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
mcaseid	Case Identification

mv101	Region

mv102	Type of place of residence

mv103	Childhood place of residence

mv104	Years lived in place of res.

mv105	Type of place of previous res.

mv106	Highest educational level

mv107	Highest year of education

mv108	Literacy

mv109	Reads newspaper once a week

mv110	Watches TV every week

mv111	Listens to radio every day

mv130	Religion

mv131	Ethnicity

mv133	Education in single years

mv134	De facto place of residence

mv135	Usual resident or visitor

mv136	Number of household members

mv138	Number of eligible men in HH

mv148	Respondent still in school

mv149	Educational attainment

mv150	Relationship to household head

mv151	Sex of household head

mv152	Age of household head