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Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 1998
Round 3

Ghana, 1998
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GHA-GSS-DHS-1998-v2.0
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Reason stopped breastfeeding (m21)

Data file: REC41

Overview

Valid: 1939
Invalid: 1359
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 97
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 97
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Mother ill, weak 59
3%
2 Child ill, weak 15
0.8%
3 Child died 156
8%
4 Nipple, breast prob. 27
1.4%
5 Insufficient milk 42
2.2%
6 Working 51
2.6%
7 Child refused 242
12.5%
8 Weaning age 1118
57.7%
9 Became pregnant 201
10.4%
10 Started using method 0
0%
96 Other 14
0.7%
97 Missing ever breastf 14
0.7%
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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