Ghana - Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2003, Round four

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Reference ID GHA-GSS-DHS-2003-v1.1
Year 2003
Country Ghana
Producer(s) Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Government of Ghana
Sponsor(s) Government of Ghana - GOG - Financial Assistance
U.S. Agency for International Development - USAID - Financial Assistance
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Disposal of HH waste (sh22b)
File: HOUSEHOLD DATA
Overview
Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-96
Invalid: 99
Valid cases: 6236 (6239465389)
Invalid: 15 (11534497)
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 96
Mean: 4.7 (4.6)
Standard deviation: 3.9 (3.7)
Questions and instructions
Universe
All households
Literal question
How does this household primarily dispose of household waste?
Categories
ValueCategoryCasesWeighted
1 Collected by government 789 889589872 14.3%
2 Collected by community assn 205 249808911 4.0%
3 Collected by private company 146 146056592 2.3%
4 Dumped in compound 342 271804243 4.4%
5 Dumped in street/empty plot 3830 3.858208241e+09 61.8%
6 Burned 420 438225138 7.0%
7 Buried 207 187578324 3.0%
8 Composted 286 187341520 3.0%
9 Recycled 1 1153542 0.0%
10 Fed to animals 1 1473490 0.0%
96 Other 9 8225516 0.1%
99 99 15 11534497
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.

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