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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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Unmet need (definition 2) (v626)

Data file: REC61

Overview

Valid: 4843
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 9
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
0 Never had sex 536
11.1%
1 Unmet need to space 781
16.1%
2 Unmet need to limit 355
7.3%
3 Using to space 506
10.4%
4 Using to limit 308
6.4%
5 Spacing failure 0
0%
6 Limiting failure 0
0%
7 Desire birth < 2 yrs 1012
20.9%
8 No sex, want to wait 519
10.7%
9 Infecund, menopausal 826
17.1%
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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