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

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Feb 20, 2009

Last modified

Mar 12, 2016

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Duration of breastfeeding (m4)
File: ALLCHILD

Overview

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

Valid cases: 3262
Invalid: 9926
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 98

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0		39	1.2%
1		17	0.5%
2		16	0.5%
3		24	0.7%
4		16	0.5%
5		5	0.2%
6		23	0.7%
7		18	0.6%
8		29	0.9%
9		30	0.9%
10		30	0.9%
11		15	0.5%
12		169	5.2%
13		43	1.3%
14		55	1.7%
15		47	1.4%
16		58	1.8%
17		24	0.7%
18		283	8.7%
19		40	1.2%
20		89	2.7%
21		21	0.6%
22		33	1.0%
23		19	0.6%
24		536	16.4%
25		24	0.7%
26		24	0.7%
27		17	0.5%
28		21	0.6%
29		12	0.4%
30		55	1.7%
31		5	0.2%
32		3	0.1%
34		5	0.2%
36		53	1.6%
37		1	0.0%
38		2	0.1%
40		1	0.0%
48		5	0.2%
94	Never breastfed	79	2.4%
95	Still breastfeeding	1257	38.5%
96	Breastfed until died	0	0.0%
97	Inconsistent	0	0.0%
98	DK	19	0.6%
99		36
Sysmiss		9890

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.