Ghana - Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2006, MICS Round 1

Reference ID

DDI-GHA-GSS-MICS-2006-v1.0

Year

2006

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF - Financial and technical assistance
(US) President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - PEPFAR - Financial and technical assistance
Dutch Government - - Financial and technical assistance

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Apr 16, 2009

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Size of child at birth (MN9)
File: Men

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-9

Valid cases: 1459
Invalid: 10235
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 9

Questions and instructions

Literal question

MN9. In your opinion when your last child
(NAME) was born, was he/she very large,
larger than average, average, smaller than
average, or very small?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Very large	324	22.2%
2	Larger than average	471	32.3%
3	Average	478	32.8%
4	Smaller than average	133	9.1%
5	Very small	48	3.3%
8	DK	0	0.0%
9	Missing	5	0.3%

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.