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

Documentation in PDF

Study website

Created on

Feb 20, 2009

Last modified

Mar 12, 2016

Page views

2030884

Preferred future method (mv363)
File: MREC32

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-98
Invalid: 99

Valid cases: 591
Invalid: 955
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 98

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Pill	66	11.2%
2	IUD	7	1.2%
3	Injections	160	27.1%
4	Diaphragm/Foam/Jelly	7	1.2%
5	Condom	190	32.1%
6	Female Sterilization	15	2.5%
7	Male Sterilization	2	0.3%
8	Periodic Abstinence	32	5.4%
9	Withdrawal	5	0.8%
10	Other	28	4.7%
11	Norplant	3	0.5%
12	Abstinence	0	0.0%
13	Lactational Amenorrhea	3	0.5%
14	Specific method 2	0	0.0%
15	Specific method 3	0	0.0%
98	Don't know	73	12.4%
Sysmiss		955

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.