Ghana - Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 1998, Round 3

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-DHS-1998-v2.0

Year

1998

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GoG - Financial Assistance
United States Agency for International Development - USAID - Financial Assistance

Metadata

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Feb 20, 2009

Last modified

Mar 12, 2016

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Data Description

Data File: REC51

Cases	4843
Variable(s)	24
Producer	Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Missing Data	Prior to 2008, missing data and not applicable data were left as blank. These values are not differentiated. The current policy is to identify the missing data as follows: -a coded value would be composed of 9s such that the entire length of the field is filled. For example a code of' '999' would be used for a missing field of three characters. -not applicable or skipped variables are left blank
Processing Checks	All files have been checked for the following: 1. All variables have been clearly defined and labelled 2. All categories (value labels) have been clearly defined 3. All cases have unique identification (no duplicates) 4. The frequencies of expected respondents checked with the actual section and inconsistencies noted. 5. Skip patterns have been verified 6. Structure edits have been performed

Name	Label	Question
hhid	Case Identification

caseid	Case Identification

v501	Current marital status

v502	Currently/formerly/never marr.

v503	Number of unions

v504	Husband lives in house

v505	Number of other wives

v506	Wife rank number

v507	Month of first marriage

v508	Year of first marriage

v509	Date of first marriage (CMC)

v510	Completeness of date inform.

v511	Age at first marriage

v512	Years since first marriage

v513	Marital duration (grouped)

v525	Age at first intercourse

v527	Time since last intercourse

v528	Time since last intercourse(g)

v529	Time since last intercourse(im

v530	Flag for V529

v531	Age at first intercourse (imp)

v532	Flag for V531

v534	Have a regular sex partner

v535	Have ever been married