Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 1998
Round 3

Ghana, 1998

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GHA-GSS-DHS-1998-v2.0

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Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)

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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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