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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Metadata
Created on
Feb 20, 2009
Last modified
Mar 12, 2016
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Main reason not using a method (mv375a)
Data file: MREC32
Overview
Valid:
1187
Invalid:
359
Minimum:
21
Maximum:
98
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
21 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Not having sex | 439 |
37%
|
| 22 | Infrequent sex | 101 |
8.5%
|
| 23 | Menopausal, hyster. | 32 |
2.7%
|
| 24 | Subfecund, infecund | 23 |
1.9%
|
| 25 | Postpartum, breastf. | 16 |
1.3%
|
| 26 | Wants more children | 179 |
15.1%
|
| 27 | Wife pregnant | 27 |
2.3%
|
| 31 | Respondent opposed | 91 |
7.7%
|
| 32 | Partner opposed | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 33 | Others opposed | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 34 | Religious prohibit. | 57 |
4.8%
|
| 41 | Knows no method | 50 |
4.2%
|
| 42 | Knows no source | 29 |
2.4%
|
| 51 | Health concerns | 7 |
0.6%
|
| 52 | Fear side effects | 41 |
3.5%
|
| 53 | Lack of access | 6 |
0.5%
|
| 54 | Cost too much | 13 |
1.1%
|
| 55 | Inconvenient to use | 21 |
1.8%
|
| 56 | Interfere with body | 14 |
1.2%
|
| 96 | Other | 15 |
1.3%
|
| 98 | DK | 23 |
1.9%
|
| 99 | 25 | ||
| Sysmiss | 334 |
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.