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

Study website

Created on

Feb 20, 2009

Last modified

Mar 12, 2016

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Main reason not using a method (mv375a)
File: MREC32

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 21-98
Invalid: 99

Valid cases: 1187
Invalid: 359
Minimum: 21
Maximum: 98

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
21	Not having sex	439	37.0%
22	Infrequent sex	101	8.5%
23	Menopausal, hyster.	32	2.7%
24	Subfecund, infecund	23	1.9%
25	Postpartum, breastf.	16	1.3%
26	Wants more children	179	15.1%
27	Wife pregnant	27	2.3%
31	Respondent opposed	91	7.7%
32	Partner opposed	2	0.2%
33	Others opposed	1	0.1%
34	Religious prohibit.	57	4.8%
41	Knows no method	50	4.2%
42	Knows no source	29	2.4%
51	Health concerns	7	0.6%
52	Fear side effects	41	3.5%
53	Lack of access	6	0.5%
54	Cost too much	13	1.1%
55	Inconvenient to use	21	1.8%
56	Interfere with body	14	1.2%
96	Other	15	1.3%
98	DK	23	1.9%
99		25
Sysmiss		334

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.