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

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Data Description

Data File: REC11

Cases	4843
Variable(s)	43
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

v101	Region of residence

v102	Type of place of residence

v103	Childhood place of residence

v104	Years lived in place of res.

v105	Type of place of previous res.

v106	Highest educational level

v107	Highest year of education

v108	Literacy

v109	Reads newspaper once a week

v110	Watches TV every week

v111	Listens to radio every day

v113	Source of drinking water

v114	Source of non-drinking water

v115	Time to get to water source

v116	Type of toilet facility

v119	Has electricity

v120	Has radio

v121	Has television

v122	Has refrigerator

v123	Has bicycle

v124	Has motorcycle

v125	Has car

v127	Main floor material

v130	Religion

v131	Ethnicity

v133	Education in single years

v134	De facto place of residence

v135	Usual resident or visitor

v136	Number of household members

v137	Number of children 5 and under

v138	Number of eligible women in HH

v139	De jure region of residence

v140	De jure type of place of res.

v141	De jure place of residence

v142	Same source of water

v148	Respondent still in school

v149	Educational attainment

v150	Relationship to household head

v151	Sex of household head

v152	Age of household head

v153	Has telephone