Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 1998
Round 3
Ghana, 1998
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Reference ID
GHA-GSS-DHS-1998-v2.0
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Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
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Main reason not to use a meth. (mv376)
Data file: MREC32
Overview
Valid:
618
Invalid:
928
Minimum:
11
Maximum:
98
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
11 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Not married | 142 |
23%
|
| 20 | FERTILITY-RELATED | 0 |
0%
|
| 21 | 0 |
0%
|
|
| 22 | Infrequent sex | 20 |
3.2%
|
| 23 | Menopausal, hyster. | 31 |
5%
|
| 24 | Subfecund, infecund | 12 |
1.9%
|
| 25 | 0 |
0%
|
|
| 26 | Wants more children | 101 |
16.3%
|
| 30 | OPPOSITION TO USE | 0 |
0%
|
| 31 | Respondent opposed | 95 |
15.4%
|
| 32 | Partner opposed | 0 |
0%
|
| 33 | Others opposed | 4 |
0.6%
|
| 34 | Religious prohibit. | 71 |
11.5%
|
| 40 | LACK OF KNOWLEDGE | 0 |
0%
|
| 41 | Knows no method | 33 |
5.3%
|
| 42 | Knows no source | 16 |
2.6%
|
| 50 | METHOD-RELATED | 0 |
0%
|
| 51 | Health concerns | 6 |
1%
|
| 52 | Fear side effects | 36 |
5.8%
|
| 53 | Lack of access | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 54 | Cost too much | 5 |
0.8%
|
| 55 | Inconvenient to use | 14 |
2.3%
|
| 56 | Interfere with body | 7 |
1.1%
|
| 61 | Up to woman to use | 0 |
0%
|
| 96 | Other | 4 |
0.6%
|
| 98 | DK | 20 |
3.2%
|
| 99 | 3 | ||
| Sysmiss | 925 |
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.