Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 1998
Round 3
Ghana, 1998
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Reference ID
GHA-GSS-DHS-1998-v2.0
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
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Feb 20, 2009
Last modified
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Main reason not using a method (v375a)
Data file: REC32
Overview
Valid:
4026
Invalid:
817
Minimum:
21
Maximum:
98
Type:
Continuous
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
11 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Not married | 0 |
0%
|
| 20 | FERTILITY-RELATED | 0 |
0%
|
| 21 | Not having sex | 866 |
21.5%
|
| 22 | Infrequent sex | 232 |
5.8%
|
| 23 | Menopausal, hyster. | 144 |
3.6%
|
| 24 | Subfecund, infecund | 161 |
4%
|
| 25 | Postpartum, breastf. | 132 |
3.3%
|
| 26 | Wants more children | 660 |
16.4%
|
| 27 | Pregnant | 179 |
4.4%
|
| 30 | OPPOSITION TO USE | 0 |
0%
|
| 31 | Respondent opposed | 293 |
7.3%
|
| 32 | Husband opposed | 67 |
1.7%
|
| 33 | Others opposed | 10 |
0.2%
|
| 34 | Religious prohibit. | 130 |
3.2%
|
| 40 | LACK OF KNOWLEDGE | 0 |
0%
|
| 41 | Knows no method | 251 |
6.2%
|
| 42 | Knows no source | 127 |
3.2%
|
| 50 | METHOD-RELATED | 0 |
0%
|
| 51 | Health concerns | 117 |
2.9%
|
| 52 | Fear side effects | 345 |
8.6%
|
| 53 | Lack of access | 7 |
0.2%
|
| 54 | Cost too much | 54 |
1.3%
|
| 55 | Inconvenient to use | 36 |
0.9%
|
| 56 | Interfere with body | 57 |
1.4%
|
| 96 | Other | 44 |
1.1%
|
| 98 | DK | 114 |
2.8%
|
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.