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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Main reason not to use a meth. (mv376)
File: MREC32

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 11-98
Invalid: 99

Valid cases: 618
Invalid: 928
Minimum: 11
Maximum: 98

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
11	Not married	142	23.0%
20	FERTILITY-RELATED	0	0.0%
21		0	0.0%
22	Infrequent sex	20	3.2%
23	Menopausal, hyster.	31	5.0%
24	Subfecund, infecund	12	1.9%
25		0	0.0%
26	Wants more children	101	16.3%
30	OPPOSITION TO USE	0	0.0%
31	Respondent opposed	95	15.4%
32	Partner opposed	0	0.0%
33	Others opposed	4	0.6%
34	Religious prohibit.	71	11.5%
40	LACK OF KNOWLEDGE	0	0.0%
41	Knows no method	33	5.3%
42	Knows no source	16	2.6%
50	METHOD-RELATED	0	0.0%
51	Health concerns	6	1.0%
52	Fear side effects	36	5.8%
53	Lack of access	1	0.2%
54	Cost too much	5	0.8%
55	Inconvenient to use	14	2.3%
56	Interfere with body	7	1.1%
61	Up to woman to use	0	0.0%
96	Other	4	0.6%
98	DK	20	3.2%
99		3
Sysmiss		925

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.