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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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Main reason not to use a meth. (v376)

Data file: REC32

Overview

Valid: 2147
Invalid: 2696
Minimum: 11
Maximum: 98
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Width: 2
Range: 11 - 98
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
11 Not married 240
11.2%
20 FERTILITY-RELATED 0
0%
21 0
0%
22 Infrequent sex 70
3.3%
23 Menopausal, hyster. 182
8.5%
24 Subfecund, infecund 128
6%
25 0
0%
26 Wants more children 342
15.9%
30 OPPOSITION TO USE 0
0%
31 Respondent opposed 285
13.3%
32 Husband opposed 33
1.5%
33 Others opposed 6
0.3%
34 Religious prohibit. 131
6.1%
40 LACK OF KNOWLEDGE 0
0%
41 Knows no method 123
5.7%
42 Knows no source 50
2.3%
50 METHOD-RELATED 0
0%
51 Health concerns 68
3.2%
52 Fear side effects 272
12.7%
53 Lack of access 1
0%
54 Cost too much 16
0.7%
55 Inconvenient to use 24
1.1%
56 Interfere with body 29
1.4%
96 Other 20
0.9%
98 DK 127
5.9%
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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