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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Economics Demography

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Unmet need (definition 2) (v626)

Data file: REC61

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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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